Refined estimates for the propagation speed of the transition solution to a free boundary problem with a nonlinearity of combustion type

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2018.04.053zbMATH Open1391.35185arXiv1704.03953OpenAlexW2963240865WikidataQ129899149 ScholiaQ129899149MaRDI QIDQ1643166FDOQ1643166

Authors: Chengxia Lei, Hiroshi Matsuzawa, Rui Peng, Maolin Zhou 

Publication date: 18 June 2018

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are concerned with the nonlinear problem $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$, where $f$ is of combustion type, coupled with the Stefan-type free boundary $h(t)$. According to [4,5], for some critical initial data, the transition solution $u$ locally uniformly converges to $heta$, which is the ignition temperature of $f$, and the free boundary satisfies $h(t)=Csqrtt+o(1)sqrtt$ for some positive constant $C$ and all large time $t$. In this paper, making use of two different approaches, we establish more accurate upper and lower bound estimates on $h(t)$ for the transition solution, which suggest that the nonlinearity $f$ can essentially influence the propagation speed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03953

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zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problemcombustionnonlinear diffusion equationpropagation speed

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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