Some Nonclassical Trends in Parabolic and Parabolic-like Evolutions

An overview will be given of some nonlinear parabolic-like evolution problems which are off the classical beaten track, but have increased in importance during the past decade. The emphasis is on problems which are nonlocal, pattern-forming (including exhibiting propagative phenomena), and/or lead in some singular limit to free boundary problems. In all cases they have been proposed as models for phenomena in the natural sciences. Also emphasized are the relationships among these various trends.

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