# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2021, 20(2): 559-582. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020281

## Classification and evolution of bifurcation curves for a porous-medium combustion problem with large activation energy

 1 Fundamental General Education Center, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 411, Taiwan 2 Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

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Received  May 2020 Revised  September 2020 Published  December 2020

Fund Project: This work is partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China under grant No. MOST 103-2115-M-167-002

We study the classification and evolution of bifurcation curves for the porous-medium combustion problem
 $\begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u^{\prime \prime }(x)+\lambda \dfrac{1+au}{1+e^{d(1-u)}} = 0, \ -1 where $ u $is the solid temperature, parameters $ \lambda >0 $, $ a\geq 0 $, and the activation energy parameter $ d>0 $is large. We mainly prove that, on the $ (\lambda , ||u||_{\infty }) $-plane, the bifurcation curve is S-shaped with exactly two turning points for any $ \ (d, a)\in \Omega \equiv \left \{ (d, a):(0
for some positive number
 $d_{1}\approx 2.225$
and a nonnegative, strictly decreasing function
 $A_{1}(d)$
defined on
 $(0, d_{1}].$
Furthermore, for any
 $\ (d, a)\in \Omega ,$
we give a classification and evolution of totally four different S-shaped bifurcation curves. In addition, for any
 $d>0$
and
 $a\geq \tilde{a}\approx 1.704$
for some positive
 $\tilde{a},$
then the bifurcation curve
 $S$
is type 4 S-shaped on the
 $(\lambda , \left \Vert u\right \Vert _{\infty })$
-plane.
Citation: Kuo-Chih Hung, Shin-Hwa Wang. Classification and evolution of bifurcation curves for a porous-medium combustion problem with large activation energy. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2021, 20 (2) : 559-582. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020281
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Four different types of S-shaped bifurcation curves $S$ of (1.1). (i). Type 1: $\lambda _{\ast }< \lambda ^{\ast }<\bar{ \lambda} = \infty .$ (ii). Type 2: $\lambda _{\ast }< \lambda ^{\ast }<\bar{ \lambda}<\infty .$ (iii). Type 3: $\lambda _{\ast }<\bar{ \lambda} = \lambda ^{\ast }.$ (iv). Type 4: $\lambda _{\ast }<\bar{ \lambda}< \lambda ^{\ast }.$
Classification of bifurcation curves $S$ for (1.1) with $d>0$ and $a\geq 0$. $d_{3}$ $(\approx 1.170)<d_{2}$ $(\approx 1.401)$ $<d_{1}$ $(\approx 2.225).$ The bifurcation curves $S$ for the region bounded between curves $A_{4}(d)$, $A_{5}(d)$ and $A_{1}(d)$ are all S-shaped
Graph of $H_{d, a}(u)$ with $H_{d, a}(u_{0})\leq 0$ for some $u_{0}\in (0, \gamma _{d, a}]$
Graphs of functions $A_{4}(d)$ and $A_{5}(d)$ for $0<d\leq d_{3}$ $(\approx 1.170).$
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