On the role of conservation laws and input data in the generation of peaking modes in quasilinear multidimensional parabolic equations with nonlinear source and in their approximations (Q337866): Difference between revisions

The authors study unbounded solutions of a broad class of initial-boundary value problems for multidimensional quasilinear parabolic equations with a nonlinear source of the type \[ \begin{cases} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t}+Au=f(u) &\quad \text{in }\Omega\times (0,T],\\ u(x,t)=\mu=\text{const}\geq0 &\quad \text{on }\partial\Omega\times (0,T],\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x) &\quad \text{in }\overline\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m\) is a bounded and smooth domain, \(u_0\in C(\overline{\Omega}),\) \(f\) is continuous and nonnegative function, and either \[ Au=-\sum_{\alpha=1}^m \dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_\alpha}\left( k(u)\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial x_\alpha}\right), \] or \[ Au=-\sum_{\alpha=1}^m \dfrac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2_\alpha}\varphi(u),\quad \varphi'(u)=k(u),\quad \varphi(\mu)=0, \] with a continuous and nonnegative function \(k.\) By means of a conservation law, the authors obtain conditions ensuring that a solution of the above problem blows up in a finite time. Moreover, the blow-up time is estimated from above. By approximating the source function \(f\) with the Steklov averages, a finite-difference scheme is constructed satisfying a grid counterpart of the integral conservation law.