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# Blow-up rate of solutions of parabolic poblems with nonlinear boundary conditions

• We review known and prove new results on blow-up rate of solutions of parabolic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions. We also compare these results and methods of their proofs with corresponding results and methods for the nonlinear heat equation.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K55, 35K57, 35B40; Secondary: 35B45.

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