Singular solutions of a superlinear parabolic equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions (Q504362)

The authors are concerned with the study of singular solutions for the parabolic problem \(u_t=\Delta u+f(u)\) in \(\Omega\) subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary condition \(\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\). Here, \(\Omega\) is a smooth and bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^N\), \(N\geq 3\), \(f(u)=u^p+O(u^q)\) as \(u\to \infty\), where \(p>q\geq 0\) are in some suitable ranges. The main result of the paper establishes that the above problem admits a solution with spatial singularity whose position and strength depend on the time variable.