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Asymptotic analysis and estimates of blow-up time for the radial symmetric semilinear heat equation in the open-spectrum case

✍ Scribed by N. I. Kavallaris; A. A. Lacey; C. V. Nikolopoulos; D. E. Tzanetis


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
303 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0170-4214

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Abstract

We estimate the blow‐up time for the reaction diffusion equation u~t~=Δ__u__+ λ__f__(u), for the radial symmetric case, where f is a positive, increasing and convex function growing fast enough at infinity. Here λ>λ^*^, where λ^*^ is the ‘extremal’ (critical) value for λ, such that there exists an ‘extremal’ weak but not a classical steady‐state solution at λ=λ^*^ with
w(⋅, λ)∥~∞~→∞ as 0<λ→λ^*^−. Estimates of the blow‐up time are obtained by using comparison methods. Also an asymptotic analysis is applied when f(s)=e^s^, for λ−λ^*^≪1, regarding the form of the solution during blow‐up and an asymptotic estimate of blow‐up time is obtained. Finally, some numerical results are also presented. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.