Abstract. The viscous flow induced by a shrinking sheet is studied. Existence and (non)uniqueness are proved. Exact solutions, both numerical and in closed form, are found.

Von Kármán's problem of a rotating disk in an infinite viscous fluid is extended to the case where the disk surface admits partial slip. The nonlinear similarity equations are integrated accurately for the full range of slip coefficients. The effects of slip are discussed. An existence proof is also given. (2000). 76D05, 76D03, 65L10. Mathematics Subject Classification

It is shown that a perturbation argument that guarantees persistence of inertial (invariant and exponentially attracting) manifolds for linear perturbations of linear evolution equations applies also when the perturbation is nonlinear. This gives a simple but sharp condition for existence of inertial manifolds for semilinear parabolic as well as for some nonlinear hyperbolic equations. Fourier transform of the explicitly given equation for the tracking solution together with the Plancherel's theorem for Banach valued functions are used.

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We show how an island (isola) evolves out of the usual S-curve of steady states of diffusion flames when radiation losses are accounted for and how it eventually disappears when radiation increases further. At small activation temperatures there are never any islands. We show that stable oscillations evolve first out of perturbations of steady states on the S-curve at large Damköhler numbers. Only if the activation temperature is large enough do they also appear on the islands. The region of the stable oscillations grows larger as activation temperature decreases.

Stability of fully developed mixed convection flows, with significant viscous dissipation, in a vertical channel bounded by isothermal plane walls having the same temperature and subject to pressure gradient is investigated. It is shown that one of the dual solutions is always unstable and that both are unstable when the total flow rate is big enough. The completely passive natural convection flow is shown to be unstable.