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Analysis for time discrete approximations of blow-up solutions of semilinear parabolic equations
We prove a posteriori error estimates for time discrete approximations, for semilinear parabolic equations with solutions that might blow up in finite time. In particular we consider the backward Euler and the Crank–Nicolson methods. The main tools that are used in the analysis are the reconstruction technique and energy methods combined with appropriate fixed point arguments. The final estimates we derive are conditional and lead to error control near the blow up time
On nonexistence of Baras--Goldstein type for higher-order parabolic equations with singular potentials
An analogy of nonexistence result by Baras and Goldstein (1984), for the heat
equation with inverse singular potential, is proved for 2mth-order linear
parabolic equations with Hardy-supercritical singular potentials. Extensions to
other linear and nonlinear singular PDEs are discussed.Comment: 22 page
A parabolic approach to the control of opinion spreading
We analyze the problem of controlling to consensus a nonlinear system
modeling opinion spreading. We derive explicit exponential estimates on the
cost of approximately controlling these systems to consensus, as a function of
the number of agents N and the control time-horizon T. Our strategy makes use
of known results on the controllability of spatially discretized semilinear
parabolic equations. Both systems can be linked through time-rescalin
Blow-up for Semidiscretizations of some Semilinear Parabolic Equations with a Convection Term
This paper concerns the study of the numerical approximation for the following parabolic equations with a convection termwhere p > 1.We obtain some conditions under which the solution of the semidiscrete form of the above problem blows up in a finite time and estimate its semidiscrete blow-up time. We also prove that the semidiscrete blow-up time converges to the real one, when the mesh size goes to zero. Finally, we give some numerical experiments to illustrate ours analysis
Five types of blow-up in a semilinear fourth-order reaction-diffusion equation: an analytic-numerical approach
Five types of blow-up patterns that can occur for the 4th-order semilinear
parabolic equation of reaction-diffusion type
u_t= -\Delta^2 u + |u|^{p-1} u \quad {in} \quad \ren \times (0,T), p>1,
\quad \lim_{t \to T^-}\sup_{x \in \ren} |u(x,t)|= +\iy, are discussed. For
the semilinear heat equation , various blow-up patterns
were under scrutiny since 1980s, while the case of higher-order diffusion was
studied much less, regardless a wide range of its application.Comment: 41 pages, 27 figure
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