An asymptotic and numerical description of self-similar blow-up in quasilinear parabolic equations (Q1298628)

The authors study the blow-up behavior of two reaction-diffusion problems with a quasilinear degenerate diffusion and a superlinear reaction. They show that in each case the blow-up is self-similar, in contrast to the linear diffusion limit of each in which the diffusion is only approximately self-similar. They then investigate the limit of the self-similar behavior and describe the transition from a stable manifold blow-up behavior (for quasilinear diffusion) to a centre manifold one for linear diffusion.