An adaptive time step procedure for a parabolic problem with blow-up (Q699804)

The authors introduce and analyze a fully discrete approximation for a parabolic problem with a nonlinear boundary condition which implies that the solution blows up in finite time. The method is a standard linear finite element method with mass lumping for the space variable. Its time discretization is based on the use of standard explicit methods combined with an appropriate re-scaling. An explicit Runge-Kutta method for this equivalent problem is used.