Blow-up rate of solutions of parabolic poblemswith nonlinear boundary conditions

Pavol Quittner; Philippe Souplet

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.671

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2012, Volume 5, Issue 3: 671-681. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.671

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

Pavol Quittner^1, and
Philippe Souplet^2,

1.
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 84248 Bratislava
2.
Université Paris 13, CNRS UMR 7539, Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications, 99, avenue J.-B. Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse

Received: August 31, 2010

Revised: September 30, 2010

Published: May 2012

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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.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K55, 35K57, 35B40; Secondary: 35B45.

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