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Prevention of blowup via Neumann heat kernel

Analysis of PDEs 2019-10-23 v1

Abstract

Consider the heat equation utΔu=0u_t-\Delta u=0 on a bounded C2C^2 domain Ω\Omega in Rn(n2)\mathbb{R}^{n}(n\geq 2) with any positive initial data. If a superlinear radiation law un=uq\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=u^{q} with q>1q>1 is imposed on a partial boundary Γ1Ω\Gamma_1\subseteq\partial\Omega which has a positive surface area, then it has been known that the solution uu blows up in finite time. However, if the partial boundary, on which the superlinear radiation law is prescribed, is shrinking and is denoted as Γ1,t\Gamma_{1,t} at time tt, then the solution may exist globally as long as the surface area Γ1,t|\Gamma_{1,t}| of Γ1,t\Gamma_{1,t} decays fast enough. This paper asks the question that how fast should Γ1,t|\Gamma_{1,t}| decay in order to have a bounded global solution? This question is of significant importance in realistic situations, such as the temperature control within a certain safe range. By taking advantage of the Neumann heat kernel, we conclude that a polynomial decay Γ1,tΓ1(1+Ct)β|\Gamma_{1,t}|\sim |\Gamma_1|(1+Ct)^{-\beta} with any β>n1\beta>n-1 suffices to ensure a bounded global solution.

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@article{arxiv.1910.09673,
  title  = {Prevention of blowup via Neumann heat kernel},
  author = {Xin Yang and Zhengfang Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09673},
  year   = {2019}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures