Blow-up solutions and global existence for a kind of quasilinear reaction-diffusion equations (Q399434)

Summary: In this paper, we study the blow-up solutions and global existence for a quasilinear reaction-diffusion equation including a gradient term and nonlinear boundary condition: \[ \begin{cases} (g(u))_{t}=\nabla{\cdot}(a(u)\nabla u)+f(x,u,|\nabla u|^{2},t) &\text{in} \;D{\times}(0,T)\\ \tfrac{\partial u}{\partial n}=r(u) &\mathrm{on} \;\partial D{\times}(0,T)\\ u(x,0)=u_{0}(x)>0 &\mathrm{in} \;\overline{D}, \end{cases} \] where \(D\subset \mathbb R^{N}\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial D\). The sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of a global solution and a blow-up solution. An upper bound for the ``blow-up time'', an upper estimate of the ``blow-up rate'', and an upper estimate of the global solution are specified under some appropriate assumptions for the nonlinear system functions \(f, g, r,a\), and initial value \(u_{0}\) by constructing suitable auxiliary functions and using maximum principles.