Blow-up of continuous and semidiscrete solutions to elliptic equations with semilinear dynamical boundary conditions of parabolic type (Q875385)

The blow up problem of the form \[ -\Delta u =0 \text{in } \Omega \times(0,T), \] \[ {\partial u \over \partial t} + k {\partial u\over \partial n} = g(u) \text{ on } S_1 \times (0,T), \] \[ a {\partial u \over \partial n} + b(u) = 0, a \geq 0, \;b \geq 0, a+b=1 \text{ on } S_2 \times (0,T), \] \[ u(x,0) =u_0(x) \text{ on } S_1 \] for the bounded domain \(\Omega\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n, \;(n\geq 1)\) with piecewise-smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega = S_1 \cup S_2, \;S_1 \cap S_2 = \emptyset\) and \(k>0, a, b \) constants is investigated. There are quite a lot of results for blow-up problems: existence of blow-up, numerical solutions of blow- up problems, their convergence to the continuous solutions etc. The present paper extends previous results for the case in which \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain and \(S_2\) can be a non-empty set. For the continuous problem the existence of a blow-up solutions is proved using the eigenfunction method. Special cases of solutions for one and two space dimensional problems are included and the blow-up solutions are constructed. For both one and two space dimensional problems semidiscrete (in space) numerical solutions based on the finite element method are constructed and their convergence and error estimates in maximum norm of order \(h^2\) for the mesh parameter \(h\) to the continuous solutions are proved. Finally, the convergence of the numerical blow-up time to the continuous one is presented.