Lower Bounds Estimate for the Blow-Up Time of a Slow Diffusion Equation with Nonlocal Source and Inner Absorption

We investigate a slow diffusion equation with nonlocal source and inner absorption subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition or homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. Based on an auxiliary function method and a differential inequality technique, lower bounds for the blow-up time are given if the blow-up occurs in finite time.

Similarity solutions for a quasilinear parabolic equation

In this paper, we use an ordinary differential equation approach to study the existence of similarity solutions for the equation u1 = Δ(uα) + θu–β in Rn × (0, ∞) where β > 0, θ ∈ [0, 1}, and n ≥ 1. This includes the slow diffusion equation when α > = 1, and the standard heat equation when α = 1, and the fast diffusion equation when 0 < α < 1. We prove that there are forward self-similar solutions for this equation with initial data of the form c|x|p, where p = 2/(α + β) if θ = 1; p ≥ 0 and 2 + (1 – α)p > 0 if θ = 0, for some positive constant c.