Semi-discretization in time of a fast diffusion equation (Q908672)

The paper deals with the fast diffusion problem: \(u'(t)-\Delta u^ m(t)=0\) in \(\Omega\) \(\times]0,T[\); \(u(x,t)=0\) on \(\Gamma\) \(\times]0,T[\); \(u(x,0)=u_ 0(x)\geq 0\), with \(0<m<1\) and \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain with a regular boundary \(\Gamma\). It is known that the solution decays to zero in some finite time depending on \(u_ 0(x).\) The author studies the convergence of a numerical method to compute the solution, the existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution and obtains estimates of the numerical extinction time.