# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2012, 17(1): 429-444. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.429

## Blowup, global fast and slow solutions to a parabolic system with double fronts free boundary

 1 School of Mathematical Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China, China

Received  October 2010 Revised  January 2011 Published  October 2011

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a reaction-diffusion model with double fronts free boundary. Our approach to the local existence and uniqueness of the solution is based on the contraction mapping theorem. Also we study the blowup property of the solution. The result shows that blowup occurs if the initial datum is large enough. Finally the long-time behavior of global solutions is presented. It is proved that the solution is global and fast, which decays uniformly at an exponential rate if the initial datum is small, while there is a global and slow solution provided that the initial value is suitably large.
Citation: Qunying Zhang, Zhigui Lin. Blowup, global fast and slow solutions to a parabolic system with double fronts free boundary. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2012, 17 (1) : 429-444. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.429
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