Quenching for Porous Medium Equations

Abstract

This paper studies the following two porous medium equations with singular boundary conditions. First, we obtain that finite time quenching on the boundary, as well as kt blows up at the same finite time and lower bound estimates of the quenching time of the equation kt = (kn)xx + (1 − k)−α, (x,t) ∈ (0,L) × (0,T) with (kn)x (0,t) = 0, (kn)x (L,t) = (1 − k(L,t))−β, t ∈ (0,T) and initial function k(x,0) = k0 (x), x ∈ [0, L] where n > 1, α and β and positive constants. Second, we obtain that finite time queching on the boundary, as well as kt blows up at the same finite time and a local existence resultbythehelpofsteadystateoftheequationkt =(kn)xx,(x,t)∈(0,L)×(0,T)with (kn)x (0,t) = (1 − k(0,t))−α, (kn)x (L,t) = (1 − k(L,t))−β, t ∈ (0,T) and initial function k (x, 0) = k0 (x), x ∈ [0, L] where n > 1, α and β and positive constants.