The blow-up rate for a strongly coupled system of semilinear heat equations with nonlinear boundary conditions (Q5930140)

The paper deals with the blow-up rate of positive solutions of the strongly coupled system \[ u_t=u_{xx}+u^{l_{11}}v^{l_{12}},\qquad v_t=v_{xx}+u^{l_{21}}v^{l_{22}} \] with boundary conditions \[ u_x(1,t)=(u^{p_{11}}v^{p_{12}})(1,t),\qquad v_x(1,t)=(u^{p_{21}}v^{p_{22}})(1,t). \] Under suitable assumptions on the matrices \(L=(l_{ij})\) as well as \(P=(p_{ij})\) and on the initial data \(u_0\) and \(v_0,\) it is proved that the solution \((u,v)\) blows up at a finite time \(T\) and \(\max_{x\in[0,1]}u(x,t)\) (resp. \(\max_{x\in[0,1]}v(x,t)\)) diverges as \((T-t)^{\alpha_1}/2\) (resp. \((T-t)^{\alpha_2}/2\)), where \(\alpha_i<0\) are the solutions of the system \((P- \text{Id})(\alpha_1,\alpha_2)^t=(-1,-1)^t.\)