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This paper deals with the blow-up properties of the solutions of the semilinear heat equation

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Maan A. Rasheed , Miroslav Chlebik

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for an energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation in odd space dimensions that arises in equivariant Yang-Mills theory. In each dimension, there is a self-similar finite-time blowup solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Roland Donninger , Matthias Ostermann

Blow up in a one-dimensional semilinear heat equation is studied using a combination of numerical and analytical tools. The focus is on problems periodic in the space variable and starting out from a nearly flat, positive initial condition.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Marco Fasondini , John R. King , J. A. C. Weideman

We consider the semilinear heat equation with a superlinear power nonlinearity in the Sobolev subcritical range. We construct a solution which blows up in finite time only at the origin, with a completely new blow-up profile, which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Frank Merle , Hatem Zaag

In this reviewing paper, we are interested in the proof of estimating the lifespan of classical solutions of semilinear wave equations with the critical exponent from above especially in low space dimensions. There are a few ways to show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Hiroyuki Takamura

We consider the semilinear wave equation with focusing energy-critical nonlinearity in space dimension 5 with radial data. It is known that a solution $(u, \partial_t u)$ which blows up at $t = 0$ in a neighborhood (in the energy norm) of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Jacek Jendrej

We study finite-time blow-up for the one-dimensional nonlinear wave equation with a quadratic time-derivative nonlinearity, \[ u_{tt}-u_{xx}=(u_t)^2,\qquad (x,t)\in\mathbb R\times[0,T). \] Building on the work of Ghoul, Liu, and Masmoudi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Oliver Gough

We consider the semilinear wave equation $$\partial_t^2 u -\Delta u =f(u), \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^N\times [0,T),\qquad (1)$$ with $f(u)=|u|^{p-1}u\log^a (2+u^2)$, where $p>1$ and $a\in \mathbb{R}$. We show an upper bound for any blow-up…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Mohamed ali Hamza , Hatem Zaag

We consider the semilinear heat equation $$u_t-\Delta u=f(u) $$ for a large class of non scale invariant nonlinearities of the form $f(u)=u^pL(u)$, where $p>1$ is Sobolev subcritical and $L$ is a slowly varying function (which includes for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Loth Damagui Chabi , Philippe Souplet

We consider the energy super critical 4 dimensional semilinear heat equation $$\partial_tu=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u, \ \ x\in \Bbb R^4, \ \ p>5.$$ Let $\Phi(r)$ be a three dimensional radial self similar solution for the three supercritical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Frank Merle , Pierre Raphael , Jeremie Szeftel

This work concerns the semilinear wave equation in three space dimensions with a power-like nonlinearity which is greater than cubic, and not quintic (i.e. not energy-critical). We prove that a scale-invariant Sobolev norm of any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Thomas Duyckaerts , Jianwei Yang

In this paper, we describe the asymptotic behaviour of globally defined solutions and of bounded solutions blowing up in finite time of the radial energy-critical focusing non-linear wave equation in three space dimension.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Thomas Duyckaerts , Carlos Kenig , Frank Merle

We prove by using an iteration argument some blow-up results for a semilinear damped wave equation in generalized Einstein-de Sitter spacetime with a time-dependent coefficient for the damping term and power nonlinearity. Then, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Alessandro Palmieri

In this work we derive some blow-up results for semilinear wave equations both in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. By requiring suitable conditions on a time-dependent factor in the nonlinear term, we prove the blow-up in finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Alessandro Palmieri , Hiroyuki Takamura

We study singularity formation in two one-dimensional nonlinear wave models with quadratic time-derivative nonlinearities. The non-null model violates the null condition and typically develops finite-time blow-up; the null-form model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Jie Liu , Faiq Raees

In this paper, we investigate the problem of blow up and sharp upper bound estimates of the lifespan for the solutions to the semilinear wave equations, posed on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds. Here the metric is assumed to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Mengyun Liu , Chengbo Wang

We consider the semilinear wave equation in higher dimensions with power nonlinearity in the super-conformal range, and its perturbations with lower order terms, including the Klein-Gordon equation. We improve the upper bounds on blow-up…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Mohamed-Ali Hamza , Hatem Zaag

We investigate semilinear wave-type equations that can be recast as wave equations with derivatives perturbed by zero-order terms. This framework covers several well-studied cases, including the scale-invariant wave equation. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 F. A. Chiarello , G. Girardi , S. Lucente

We consider the semilinear heat equation, to which we add a nonlinear gradient term, with a critical power. We construct a solution which blows up in finite time. We also give a sharp description of its blow-up profile. The proof relies on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Slim Tayachi , Hatem Zaag

We study strong instability (instability by blowup) of standing wave solutions for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an attractive delta potential and $L^2$-supercritical power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We also compare our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Masahito Ohta , Takahiro Yamaguchi