Complete blow up and global behaviour of solutions of \(u_t- \Delta u=g(u)\) (Q1276062)

Let \(\Omega\) be a smooth, bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), and let \(g:[0,\infty) \rightarrow [0,\infty)\) be a convex, nondecreasing function of class \(C^2\). The paper deals with the study of the global behaviour of solutions of the nonlinear heat equation \(u_t-\Delta u=\lambda g(u)\) in \((0,T)\times\Omega\), where \(u=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\) and \(u(0)=u_0\) in \(\Omega\). The study is made under the basic hypothesis \(u_0\in L^\infty (\Omega)\), \(u_0\geq 0\). Are in the paper several interesting and powerful results established. The reviewer considers that one of the most important theorems obtained in this work is the following: Any nondecreasing solution which blows up at a finite time \(T_{\max}\) blows up completely in \(\Omega\) after \(T_{\max}\). This result is applied in order to describe all possible global behaviours of the solutions according to the value of \(\lambda\). The author introduces the notion of complete blow up in infinite time and proves several results related to this notion. The last result stated in the paper concerns the convergence rate of some solutions of the considered diffusion problem to the unique solution of the stationary problem.