# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2021, 14(3): 1133-1143. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020388

## Convergence of a blow-up curve for a semilinear wave equation

 National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, 866 Nakane, Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki-ken 312-8508, Japan

Received  January 2019 Revised  February 2020 Published  June 2020

Fund Project: This work was supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 18K13447

We consider a blow-up phenomenon for ${ \partial_t^2 u_ \varepsilon}$ ${- \varepsilon^2 \partial_x^2u_ \varepsilon }$ ${ = F(\partial_t u_ \varepsilon)}.$ The derivative of the solution $\partial_t u_ \varepsilon$ blows-up on a curve $t = T_ \varepsilon(x)$ if we impose some conditions on the initial values and the nonlinear term $F$. We call $T_ \varepsilon$ blow-up curve for ${ \partial_t^2 u_ \varepsilon}$ ${- \varepsilon^2 \partial_x^2u_ \varepsilon }$ ${ = F(\partial_t u_ \varepsilon)}.$ In the same way, we consider the blow-up curve $t = \tilde{T}(x)$ for ${\partial_t^2 u}$ $=$ ${F(\partial_t u)}.$ The purpose of this paper is to show that, for each $x$, $T_ \varepsilon(x)$ converges to $\tilde{T}(x)$ as $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0.$

Citation: Takiko Sasaki. Convergence of a blow-up curve for a semilinear wave equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2021, 14 (3) : 1133-1143. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020388
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