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Convergence of blow-up solutions of nonlinear heat equations in the supercritical case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

J. Matos
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Laboratoire d'Analyse Numérique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

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In this paper, we study the blow-up behaviour of the radially symmetric non-negative solutions u of the semilinear heat equation with supercritical power nonlinearity up (that is, (N – 2)p> N + 2). We prove the existence of non-trivial self-similar blow-up patterns of u around the blow-up point x = 0. This result follows from a convergence theorem for a nonlinear parabolic equation associated to the initial one after rescaling by similarity variables.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999

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