Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4613312 Journal of Differential Equations 2007 20 Pages PDF
Abstract

We study the asymptotic behaviour of nonnegative solutions of the nonlinear diffusion equation in the half-line with a nonlinear boundary condition,{ut=uxx−λ(u+1)logp(u+1),(x,t)∈R+×(0,T),−ux(0,t)=(u+1)logq(u+1)(0,t),t∈(0,T),u(x,0)=u0(x),x∈R+, with p,q,λ>0p,q,λ>0. We describe in terms of p, q and λ when the solution is global in time and when it blows up in finite time. For blow-up solutions we find the blow-up rate and the blow-up set and we describe the asymptotic behaviour close to the blow-up time, showing that a phenomenon of asymptotic simplification takes place. We finally study the appearance of extinction in finite time.

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