Blow-up time and blow-up set of the solutions for semilinear heat equations with large diffusion. (Q1405977)

Of concern is the blow-up of positive solutions to the Cauchy-Neumann problem \(u_t= d\Delta u+u^p\) on a cylindrical domain \(D= D_1\times (0,L)\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) accompanied with positive initial data \(\varphi\in C(\overline{D})\). Here \(p>1\) is fixed, the diffusion constant \(d>0\) is a parameter and the solutions are denoted as \(u_d\) in order to mention their dependence on the parameter \(d\). The author defines the blow-up set \(B_d(\varphi)\) for a solution \(u_d\) with a fixed initial value \(\varphi\) as the set of all \(x\in \overline{D}\) for which there are the space sequence \(x_k\to x\) and the time sequence \(\{t_k\}\) such that \(u_d(x_k,t_k)\to \infty\) as \(k\to \infty\). The first result proved by the author says that for the large diffusion case the blow-up set is concentrated on the top or the bottom of the cylindrical domain: Theorem A. Assume that the initial value \(\varphi\geq 0\) is such that \(I(\varphi):= \int_D\varphi\cos (x_n\pi/L)\, dx\neq 0\). Then there exists a positive constant \(d_0\), depending only on \(D\), \(p\) and \(\varphi\), such that for all \(d\geq d_0\) there holds \(B_d(\varphi)\subset \overline{D_1}\times \{0\}\) if \(I(\varphi)> 0\) and \(B_d(\varphi)\subset \overline{D_1}\times \{L\}\) if \(I(\varphi)< 0\). The second result proved by the author is about the life span \(T_d\) of the solutions \(u_d\): Theorem B. One has \(T_d< \infty\) and there holds \(| T_d- (p-1)^{-1} c^{1-p}|\leq \text{const}\cdot \log d/d\) with the number \(c:= (1/| D|)\int_D \varphi\,dx\).