Properties of solutions to porous medium problems with different sources and boundary conditions

TL;DR

This paper investigates solutions to porous medium equations with various sources and boundary conditions, establishing criteria for global existence or blow-up, and providing lower bounds for blow-up time in three dimensions.

Contribution

It offers new criteria for solution existence and blow-up, considering different boundary conditions and source functions, and derives lower bounds for blow-up time in 3D.

Findings

Criteria for global existence and blow-up are established.

Lower bounds for blow-up time in three dimensions are derived.

Analysis covers various boundary conditions and source terms.

Abstract

In this paper we study nonnegative and classical solutions $u=u(\nx,t)$ to porous medium problems of the type \begin{equation}\label{ProblemAbstract} \tag{$\Diamond$} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u^m + g(u,|\nabla u|) & {\bf x} \in \Omega, t\in I,\\ %u_\nu+hu=0 & \textrm{on}\; \partial \Omega, t>0,\\ u({\bf x},0)=u_0({\bf x})&{\bf x} \in \Omega,\\ \end{cases} \end{equation} where $\Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $\R^N$, with $N\geq 1$, $I=(0,t^*)$ is the maximal interval of existence of $u$, $m>1$ and $u_0(\nx)$ is a nonngative and sufficiently regular function. The problem is equipped with different boundary conditions and depending on such boundary conditions as well as on the expression of the source $g$, global existence and blow-up criteria for solutions to \eqref{ProblemAbstract} are established. Additionally, in the three dimensional setting and when blow-up occurs, lower bounds for the blow-up time $t^*$ are also derived.