In this paper we consider the numerical solution of PDEs with blow-up for which scaling invariance plays a natural role in describing the underlying solution structures. It is a challenging numerical problem to capture the qualitative behaviour in the blow-up region, and the use of nonuniform meshes is essential. We consider moving mesh methods for which the mesh is determined using so-called m...

Assume that Ω is a bounded domain in Rn with n ≥ 2. We study positive solutions to the problem, ∆u = up in Ω, u(x)→∞ as x→ ∂Ω, where p > 1. Such solutions are called boundary blow-up solutions of ∆u = up. We show that a boundary blow-up solution exists in any bounded domain if 1 < p < n n−2 . In particular, when n = 2, there exists a boundary blow-up solution to ∆u = up for all p ∈ (1,∞). We al...