Complete blow-up and incomplete quenching for the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition (Q1348209)

The authors consider problems of the form \[ \begin{align*}{ u_t=u_{xx},&\qquad 0<x<1,\quad 0<t<T,\cr u_x(0,t)=0,\quad u_x(1,t)=f(u(1,t)),&\qquad 0<t<T,\cr u(x,0) =u_0(x), &\qquad 0\leq x\leq 1,}\end{align*} \] where \(f(u)=-u^{-p},\) \(p>0\) or \(f(u)=u^p,\) \(p>1.\) It is shown that in the first case the solution could be extended for \(t>T\) in a natural way, as a limit of a sequence of solutions of regularized problems. In the second case the blow-up is always complete.