Blow-up results for a strongly perturbed semilinear heat equation: theoretical analysis and numerical method

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Abstract: We consider a blow-up solution for a strongly perturbed semilinear heat equation with Sobolev subcritical power nonlinearity. Working in the framework of similarity variables, we find a Lyapunov functional for the problem. Using this Lyapunov functional, we derive the blow-up rate and the blow-up limit of the solution. We also classify all asymptotic behaviors of the solution at the singularity and give precisely blow-up profiles corresponding to these behaviors. Finally, we attain the blow-up profile numerically, thanks to a new mesh-refinement algorithm inspired by the rescaling method of Berger and Kohn in 1988. Note that our method is applicable to more general equations, in particular those with no scaling invariance.


The blow-up behavior of classical solutions of the following initial value problem for the semilinear heat equation in \(\mathbb{R}^n\): \[ \begin{aligned} &\partial_tu=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u+h(u), \\ &u|_{t=0}=u_0\in L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n), \end{aligned}\tag{1} \] is investigated, where \(p\) is subcritical (i.e., \(p<\frac{n+2}{n-2}\) if \(n\geq 3\)) and \[ h(u)=\mu\frac{|u|^{p-1}u}{\log_a(2+u^2)},\qquad a>0,\;\mu\in\mathbb{R}. \] Similarity variables are introduced and the existence of a Lyapunov functional for the resulting equation is shown, which allows to determine the blow-up rate and blow-up limit of solutions. Different from the classical case, where \(h\equiv 0\), problem (1) is not scaling invariant and the PDE written in similarity variables is non-autonomous, which requires to adapt previous techniques. The asymptotic behavior of solutions approaching a blow-up point is further investigated. The blow-up behavior is classified and explicit blow-up profiles are determined. The article extends the findings obtained for solutions of (1) with \(a>1\) in [\textit{V. T. Nguyen}, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 35, No. 8, 3585--3626 (2015; Zbl 1327.35195)] to values \(a\in \;]0,1]\). The corresponding results for the classical problem with \(h\equiv 0\) have been obtained in [\textit{J. J. L. Velázquez}, Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 17, No. 9--10, 1567--1596 (1992; Zbl 0813.35009)]. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the results. The blow-up profile for solutions is computed (in a bounded one-dimensional domain) by a mesh-refining algorithm based on the rescaling method in [\textit{M. Berger} and \textit{R. V. Kohn}, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 41, No. 6, 841--863 (1988; Zbl 0652.65070)].











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