This paper deals with blow-up properties of solutions to a semilinear parabolic system with weighted localized terms, subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We investigate the influence of the three factors: localized sources $u^p(x₀,t)$, vⁿ(x₀,t), local sources $u^m(x,t)$, $v^q(x,t)$, and weight functions a(x),b(x), on the asymptotic behavior of solutions. We obtain the uniform blow-up profiles not only for the cases m,q ≤ 1 or m,q > 1, but also for m > 1 q < 1 or m < 1 q >...

We study the absence of nonnegative global solutions to parabolic inequalities of the type $u_t\ge -{(-\Delta )}^{\beta /2}u-V\left(x\right)u+h(x,t)u^p$, where ${(-\Delta )}^{\beta /2}$, 0 < β ≤ 2, is the β/2 fractional power of the Laplacian. We give a sufficient condition which implies that the only global solution is trivial if p > 1 is small. Among other properties, we derive a necessary condition for the existence of local and global nonnegative solutions to the above problem for the function V satisfying ${V₊\left(x\right)\sim a\left|x\right|}^{-b}$, where a ≥ 0, b > 0, p > 1 and V₊(x): = maxV(x),0....

Consider the nonlinear heat equation (E): $u_t-\Delta u={\left|u\right|}^{p-1}u+b{\left|\nabla u\right|}^q$. We prove that for a large class of radial, positive, nonglobal solutions of (E), one has the blowup estimates $C₁{(T-t)}^{-1/(p-1)}{\le \left|\right|u\left(t\right)\left|\right|}_{\infty }\le C₂{(T-t)}^{-1/(p-1)}$. Also, as an application of our method, we obtain the same upper estimate if u only satisfies the nonlinear parabolic inequality $u_t-u_{xx}\ge u^p$. More general inequalities of the form $u_t-u_{xx}\ge f\left(u\right)$ with, for instance, $f\left(u\right)=(1+u)lo{g}^p(1+u)$ are also treated. Our results show that for solutions of the parabolic inequality, one has essentially the same estimates as for solutions...

An abstract semilinear parabolic equation in a Banach space X is considered. Under general assumptions on nonlinearity this problem is shown to generate a bounded dissipative semigroup on $X^{\alpha }$. This semigroup possesses an $(X^{\alpha }-Z)$-global attractor that is closed, bounded, invariant in $X^{\alpha }$, and attracts bounded subsets of $X^{\alpha }$ in a ’weaker’ topology of an auxiliary Banach space Z. The abstract approach is finally applied to the scalar parabolic equation in Rⁿ and to the partly dissipative system. ...

We investigate the existence of renormalized solutions for some nonlinear parabolic problems associated to equations of the form ⎧$\partial (e^{\beta u}-1)/\partial t-{div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)+div(c(x,t){\left|u\right|}^{s-1}u)+b(x,t){\left|\nabla u\right|}^r=f$ in Q = Ω×(0,T), ⎨ u(x,t) = 0 on ∂Ω ×(0,T), ⎩ $(e^{\beta u}-1)(x,0)=(e^{\beta u₀}-1)\left(x\right)$ in Ω. with s = (N+2)/(N+p) (p-1), $c(x,t)\in {\left(L^{\tau }\left(QT\right)\right)}^N$, τ = (N+p)/(p-1), r = (N(p-1) + p)/(N+2), $b(x,t)\in L^{N+2,1}\left(QT\right)$ and f ∈ L¹(Q).

This paper provides blow up results of Fujita type for a reaction-diffusion system of 3 equations in the form $uₜ-\Delta \left(a_{11}u\right)=h(t,x){\left|v\right|}^p$, $vₜ-\Delta \left(a_{21}u\right)-\Delta \left(a_{22}v\right)=k(t,x){\left|w\right|}^q$, $wₜ-\Delta \left(a_{31}u\right)-\Delta \left(a_{32}v\right)-\Delta \left(a_{33}w\right)=l(t,x){\left|u\right|}^r$, for $x\in {ℝ}^N$, t > 0, p > 0, q > 0, r > 0, $a_{ij}=a_{ij}(t,x,u,v)$, under initial conditions u(0,x) = u₀(x), v(0,x) = v₀(x), w(0,x) = w₀(x) for $x\in {ℝ}^N$, where u₀, v₀, w₀ are nonnegative, continuous and bounded functions. Subject to conditions on dependence on the parameters p, q, r, N and the growth of the functions h, k, l at infinity, we prove finite blow up time for every solution of the...

We prove the existence of global attractors for the following semilinear degenerate parabolic equation on ${ℝ}^N$: ∂u/∂t - div(σ(x)∇ u) + λu + f(x,u) = g(x), under a new condition concerning the variable nonnegative diffusivity σ(·) and for an arbitrary polynomial growth order of the nonlinearity f. To overcome some difficulties caused by the lack of compactness of the embeddings, these results are proved by combining the tail estimates method and the asymptotic a priori estimate method. ...

We consider solutions of quasilinear equations $u_t=\Delta u^m+u^p$ in ${ℝ}^N$ with the initial data $u_0$ satisfying $0<u_0<M$ and ${lim}_{\left|x\right|\to \infty }{u}_0\left(x\right)=M$ for some constant $M>0$. It is known that if $0<m<p$ with $p>1$, the blow-up set is empty. We find solutions $u$ that blow up throughout ${ℝ}^N$ when $m>p>1$.

We consider a nonlinear parabolic system modelling chemotaxis $u_t=\nabla ·(\nabla u-u\nabla v)$, $v_t=\Delta v+u$ in ℝ², t > 0. We first prove the existence of time-global solutions, including self-similar solutions, for small initial data, and then show the asymptotically self-similar behavior for a class of general solutions.

We consider $2m$th-order $(m\ge 2)$ semilinear parabolic equations $u_t=-{\left(-\Delta \right)}^{m}u\pm {\left|u\right|}^{p-1}u$ in ${ℛ}^N\times {ℝ}_{+}$ $(p>1)$, with Dirac’s mass $\delta \left(x\right)$ as the initial function. We show that for $p<p_0=1+2m/N$, the Cauchy problem admits a solution $u(x,t)$ which is bounded and smooth for small $t>0$, while for $p\ge p_0$ such a local in time solution does not exist. This leads to a boundary layer phenomenon in constructing a proper solution via regular approximations.

Let $u\in L^2(I;H^1\left(\Omega \right))$ with ${\partial }_{t}u\in L^2(I;H^1{\left(\Omega \right)}^{*})$ be given. Then we show by means of a counter-example that the positive part $u^{+}$ of $u$ has less regularity, in particular it holds ${\partial }_t{u}^{+}\notin L^1(I;H^1{\left(\Omega \right)}^{*})$ in general. Nevertheless, $u^{+}$ satisfies an integration-by-parts formula, which can be used to prove non-negativity of weak solutions of parabolic equations.

In this paper we examine self-similar solutions to the system $u_{it}-d_i\Delta u_i={\prod }_{k=1}^m{u}_k^{p_k^i}$, i = 1,…,m, $x\in {ℝ}^N$, t > 0, $u_i(0,x)=u_{0i}\left(x\right)$, i = 1,…,m, $x\in {ℝ}^N$, where m > 1 and $p_k^i>0$, to describe asymptotics near the blow up point.

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of nonnegative boundary blow-up solutions to the cooperative system ${\Delta }_{p}u=g(u-\alpha v),{\Delta }_{p}v=f(v-\beta u)$ in a smooth bounded domain of ${ℝ}^N$, where ${\Delta }_p$ is the p-Laplacian operator defined by ${\Delta }_{p}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)$ with p > 1, f and g are nondecreasing, nonnegative C¹ functions, and α and β are two positive parameters. The asymptotic behavior of solutions near the boundary is obtained and we get a uniqueness result for p = 2.

We consider the Cauchy problem for the focusing Hartree equation $i{u}_t+\Delta u+{\left(\right|·|}^{-3}\ast \left|u\right|²)u=0$ in ℝ⁵ with initial data in H¹, and study the divergence property of infinite-variance and nonradial solutions. For the ground state solution of $-Q+\Delta Q+\left(\right|·{|}^{-3}\ast \left|Q\right|²)Q=0$ in ℝ⁵, we prove that if u₀ ∈ H¹ satisfies M(u₀)E(u₀) < M(Q)E(Q) and ||∇u₀||₂||u₀||₂ > ||∇Q||₂||Q||₂, then the corresponding solution u(t) either blows up in finite forward time, or exists globally for positive time and there exists a time sequence tₙ → ∞ such that ||∇u(tₙ)||₂...

In this paper, we consider a class of initial-boundary value problems for quasilinear PDEs, subject to the dynamic boundary conditions. Each initial-boundary problem is denoted by (S)${}_{\epsilon }$ with a nonnegative constant $\epsilon$, and for any $\epsilon \ge 0$, (S)${}_{\epsilon }$ can be regarded as a vectorial transmission system between the quasilinear equation in the spatial domain $\Omega$, and the parabolic equation on the boundary $\Gamma :=\partial \Omega$, having a sufficient smoothness. The objective of this study is to establish a mathematical method,...

In this paper we establish compactness results of multiscale and very weak multiscale type for sequences bounded in $L^2(0,T;H_0^1\left(\Omega \right))$, fulfilling a certain condition. We apply the results in the homogenization of the parabolic partial differential equation ${\epsilon }^p{\partial }_t{u}_{\epsilon }(x,t)-\nabla ·\left(a(x{\epsilon }^{-1},x{\epsilon }^{-2},t{\epsilon }^{-q},t{\epsilon }^{-r})\nabla u_{\epsilon }(x,t)\right)=f(x,t)$, where $0<p<q<r$. The homogenization result reveals two special phenomena, namely that the homogenized problem is elliptic and that the matching for which the local problem is parabolic is shifted by $p$, compared to the standard matching that gives rise...

We study existence, uniqueness, and smoothing properties of the solutions to a class of linear second order elliptic and parabolic differential equations with unbounded coefficients in ${ℝ}^n$. The main results are global Schauder estimates, which hold in spite of the unboundedness of the coefficients.

Convergence of global solutions to stationary solutions for a class of degenerate parabolic systems related to the p-Laplacian operator is proved. A similar result is obtained for a variable exponent p. In the case of p constant, the convergence is proved to be ${¹}_{loc}$, and in the variable exponent case, L² and $W^{1,p\left(x\right)}$-weak.

This paper is concerned with the study of a nonlocal nonlinear parabolic problem associated with the equation $u_t-M\left({\int }_{\Omega }\phi u\mathrm{d}x\right)\mathrm{div}\left(A(x,t,u)\nabla u\right)=g(x,t,u)$ in $\Omega \times (0,T)$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of ${ℝ}^n$ $(n\ge 1)$, $T>0$ is a positive number, $A(x,t,u)$ is an $n\times n$ matrix of variable coefficients depending on $u$ and $M:ℝ\to ℝ$, $\phi :\Omega \to ℝ$, $g:\Omega \times (0,T)\times ℝ\to ℝ$ are given functions. We consider two different assumptions on $g$. The existence of a weak solution for this problem is proved using the Schauder fixed point theorem for each of these assumptions. Moreover, if $A(x,t,u)=a(x,t)$ depends only on...

In this work we study the problem $u_t{-div\left(\right|x|}^{-2\gamma }\nabla u)=\lambda \frac{u^{\alpha }}{{\left|x\right|}^{2(\gamma +1)}}+f$ in $\Omega \times (0,T)$, $u\ge 0$ in $\Omega \times (0,T)$, $u=0$ on $\partial \Omega \times (0,T)$, $u(x,0)=u_0\left(x\right)$ in $\Omega$, $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ $(N\ge 2)$ is a bounded regular domain such that $0\in \Omega$, $\lambda >0$, $\alpha >0$, $-\infty <\gamma <\left(N-2\right)/2$, $f$ and $u_0$ are positive functions such that $f\in L^1(\Omega \times (0,T))$ and $u_0\in L^1\left(\Omega \right)$. The main points under analysis are: (i) spectral instantaneous and complete blow-up related to the Harnack inequality in the case $\alpha =1$, $1+\gamma >0$; (ii) the nonexistence of solutions if $\alpha >1$, $1+\gamma >0$; (iii) a uniqueness result for weak solutions (in the distribution sense); (iv) further results on existence of weak solutions...

This article investigates the long-time behaviour of parabolic scalar conservation laws of the type ${\partial }_{t}u+{div}_{y}A(y,u)-{\Delta }_{y}u=0$, where $y\in {ℝ}^N$ and the flux $A$ is periodic in $y$. More specifically, we consider the case when the initial data is an $L^1$ disturbance of a stationary periodic solution. We show, under polynomial growth assumptions on the flux, that the difference between u and the stationary solution behaves in $L^1$ norm like a self-similar profile for large times. The proof uses a time and space change of variables...