Nondegeneracy and Single-point-blowup for Solution of the Heat Equation with a Nonlinear Boundary Condition

J. Math. Sci. Univ. Tokyo
Vol. 1 (1994), No. 2, Page 251--276.

Hu, Bei
Nondegeneracy and Single-point-blowup for Solution of the Heat Equation with a Nonlinear Boundary Condition
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Abstract:
This paper studies the nondegeneracy of the blowup limit and the single-point-blowup for the heat equation $u_t = Δ u$ with the nonlinear boundary condition $u_n = u^p$ on $\partial Ω × [0,T)$. Under certain blowup rate assumption (which was established recently under some assumptions on the initial data), we prove that the blowup limit is nontrivial at the blowup point. We also establish that the single-point-blowup occurs in two space dimensional radially symmetric domain with non-radially symmetric initial data with only one "hill" on the boundary.

Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 35B35, 35B40, 35K05, 35K60
Mathematical Reviews Number: MR1317460

Received: 1994-04-11