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Blowup in Nonliear Heat Equations

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posted on 2006-12-08, 00:00 authored by Shuangcai Wang
We study the blowup problem for nonlinear heat equations. We show that if the even initial value is close enough to a 2-dimensional manifold of approximately homogenous solutions, the solution blows up in a finite time and the asymptotical profile is an approximate solution with parameters evolving according to a certain dynamical system plus a small fluctuation in $L^infty$.The result allows us to construct initial data with more than one local maximum while the solutions still blow up in a finite time according to the asymptotical profile. We also demonstrated that there is an open subset in the space of initial data and their solutions blow up according to the described asymptotical profile.

History

Date Modified

2017-06-02

Defense Date

2006-09-08

Research Director(s)

Grant J. Mathews

Committee Members

Mark S. Alber Bei Hu Gerard K. Misiolek Israel Michael Sigal

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Level

  • Doctoral Dissertation

Language

  • English

Alternate Identifier

etd-12082006-212708

Publisher

University of Notre Dame

Program Name

  • Mathematics

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