Instantaneous and finite time blow-up of solutions to a reaction-diffusion equation with Hardy-type singular potential (Q2195165)

The authors study nonlinear parabolic equations of the form \(u_t=\Delta(u^m)+\frac{K}{|x|^2}u^m\) with \(m>1\) and \(K\in(0,(N-2)^2/4)\) in the whole space \(\mathbb R^N\). They prove that radial solutions with nonnegative initial data satisfying \(\lim_{x\to 0} |x|^{-2/(m-1)}u_0(x)=\infty\) blow up instantaneously, that is \(\lim_{x\to 0}u(x,t)=\infty\) for each \(t>0\). If \(0\le u_0(x)\not\equiv 0\) satisfies \(\limsup_{x\to 0} |x|^{-2/(m-1)}u_0(x)<\infty\), then solutions blow up in a finite time. Moreover, those solutions can be continued to global-in-time ones with a singularity at the origin and satisfying \(u^m/|x|^2\in L^1(\mathbb R^N)\). The analysis is based on a transformation which brings radial solutions into solutions of a one-dimensional nonhomogeneous porous medium equation.