On the role of conservation laws and input data in the generation of peaking modes in quasilinear multidimensional parabolic equations with nonlinear source and in their approximations (Q337866)

The authors study unbounded solutions of a broad class of initial-boundary value problems for multidimensional quasilinear parabolic equations with a nonlinear source of the type \[ \begin{cases} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t}+Au=f(u) &\quad \text{in }\Omega\times (0,T],\\ u(x,t)=\mu=\text{const}\geq0 &\quad \text{on }\partial\Omega\times (0,T],\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x) &\quad \text{in }\overline\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m\) is a bounded and smooth domain, \(u_0\in C(\overline{\Omega}),\) \(f\) is continuous and nonnegative function, and either \[ Au=-\sum_{\alpha=1}^m \dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_\alpha}\left( k(u)\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial x_\alpha}\right), \] or \[ Au=-\sum_{\alpha=1}^m \dfrac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2_\alpha}\varphi(u),\quad \varphi'(u)=k(u),\quad \varphi(\mu)=0, \] with a continuous and nonnegative function \(k.\) By means of a conservation law, the authors obtain conditions ensuring that a solution of the above problem blows up in a finite time. Moreover, the blow-up time is estimated from above. By approximating the source function \(f\) with the Steklov averages, a finite-difference scheme is constructed satisfying a grid counterpart of the integral conservation law.