The critical exponents for the quasi-linear parabolic equations with inhomogeneous terms (Q884387)

In this article, the author deals with the critical exponents for the quasi-linear parabolic equations, in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with inhomogeneous source, or in exterior domains with inhomogeneous boundary conditions. The author considers three problems that arise from nonlinear fluid dynamic and these are the following: \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\Delta u^{1+\sigma }=u^p+f( x) ,&(x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^n\times(0,\infty ), \\ u( x,0) =u_0( x), & x\in\mathbb{R}^n, \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\sigma >-1,p>\max \left\{ 1,1+\sigma \right\} \), and \(f( x) \) and \(u_0( x) \) are two nonnegative continuous functions in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(f( x) \neq 0\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\Delta u^{1+\sigma }=u^p,\quad &( x,t) \in D^c\times ( 0,\infty ) , \\ u( x,t) =f( x),& ( x,t) \in \partial D\times ( 0,\infty ) , \\ u( x,0) =u_0( x),& x\in D^c,\end{cases}\tag{2} \] \[ \begin{cases} u_t-\Delta u^{1+\sigma }=u^p, & ( x,t) \in D^c\times ( 0,\infty ), \\ \frac{\partial u^{1+\sigma }}{\partial \nu }=f( x) , & ( x,t) \in \partial D\times ( 0,\infty ) , \\ u(x,0) =u_0( x) , & x\in D^c ,\end{cases}\tag{3} \] where \(\sigma >-1,p>\max \left\{ 1,1+\sigma \right\} \), \(D\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with smooth boundary, \(D^c=\mathbb{R}^n\backslash \overline{D}\); \(\nu \) is the outward unit normal to \(\partial D\). \(u_0( x) \) is consider to be a nonnegative continuous function in \(D^c\), \(f( x) \neq 0\) is also a nonnegative continuous function on \(\partial D,u_0(x)=f( x) \) on \(\partial D\) in problem \((2)\) and \(\frac{\partial u_0^{1+\sigma }}{\partial \nu }=f( x) \) on \(\partial D\) in problem \((3).\) The author shows that for \(n\geq 3,\sigma >-\frac 2n\) and \( p>\max \left\{ 1,1+\sigma \right\} ,p_c=\frac{n( 1+\sigma ) }{n-2} \) is the critical exponent of these problems. Moreover if \(\max \left\{ 1,1+\sigma \right\} <p\leq p_c\), then every positive solution of the problems blow up in finite time. On the other hand, if \(p>p_c\), then for some \(f( x) \) and some \(u_0( x) \) the problems admit global positive solutions. The author deals also with the case when \(n=1,2\), \( \sigma >-1\) and \(p>\max \left\{ 1,1+\sigma \right\} .\) In this case every positive solution blows up in finite time.