ABSTRACT In this article, we propose the application of a modified Taylor series method (MTSM) for the approximation of nonlinear problems described on finite intervals. The issue of Taylor series method with mixed boundary conditions is circumvented using shooting constants and extra derivatives of the problem. In order to show the benefits of this proposal, three different kinds of problems a...

This article concerns the blow up behavior for Henon type parabolic equation withexponential nonlinearity, $$ u_t=\Delta u+|x|^{\sigma}e^u\quad \text{in } B_R\times \mathbb{R}_+, where \(\sigma\geq 0\) and \(B_R=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^N: |x|<R\}\).We consider all cases in which blowup of solutions occurs, i.e. \(N\geq 10+4\sigma\).Grow rates are established by a certain matching different asymptot...

We consider the exponential reaction–diffusion equation in space-dimension n ∈ (2, 10). We show that for any integer k ≥ 2 there is a backward selfsimilar solution which crosses the singular steady state k-times. The sameholds for the power nonlinearity if the exponent is supercritical in the Sobolev sense and subcritical in the Joseph–Lundgren sense. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.