# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2020, 40(6): 3395-3409. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019229

## Large time behavior of ODE type solutions to nonlinear diffusion equations

 1 Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan 2 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8914, Japan

* Corresponding author: Kazuhiro Ishige

Received  September 2018 Revised  February 2019 Published  June 2019

Fund Project: The second author of this paper was supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(No. 15H02058) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Consider the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear diffusion equation
 $$$\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u = \Delta u^m+u^\alpha & \quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N\times(0,\infty),\\ u(x,0) = \lambda+\varphi(x)>0 & \quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N, \end{array} \right.$$$
where
 $m>0$
,
 $\alpha\in(-\infty,1)$
,
 $\lambda>0$
and
 $\varphi\in BC({\bf R}^N)\,\cap\, L^r({\bf R}^N)$
with
 $1\le r<\infty$
and
 $\inf_{x\in{\bf R}^N}\varphi(x)>-\lambda$
. Then the positive solution to problem (P) behaves like a positive solution to ODE
 $\zeta' = \zeta^\alpha$
in
 $(0,\infty)$
and it tends to
 $+\infty$
as
 $t\to\infty$
. In this paper we obtain the precise description of the large time behavior of the solution and reveal the relationship between the behavior of the solution and the diffusion effect the nonlinear diffusion equation has.
Citation: Junyong Eom, Kazuhiro Ishige. Large time behavior of ODE type solutions to nonlinear diffusion equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2020, 40 (6) : 3395-3409. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019229
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