Tzanetis, Dimitrios E.2020-07-132020-07-132002-02-01Tzanetis, D. E. (2002). Blow-up of radially symmetric solutions of a non-local problem modelling Ohmic heating. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2002</i>(11), pp. 1-26.1072-6691https://hdl.handle.net/10877/12051We consider a non-local initial boundary-value problem for the equation ut = ∆u + λƒ(u) / (∫Ω ƒ(u) dx)2, x ∈ Ω ⊂ ℝ2, t > 0, where u represents a temperature and ƒ is a positive and decreasing function. It is shown that for the radically symmetric case, if ∫∞0 ƒ(s) ds < ∞ then there exists a critical value λ* > 0 such that for λ < λ* there is no stationary solution and u blows up, whereas for λ < λ* there exists at least one stationary solution. Moreover, for the Dirichlet problem with -s ƒ'(s) < ƒ(s) there exists a unique stationary solution which is asymptotically stable. For the Robin problem, if λ < λ* then there are at least two solutions, which if λ = λ* at least one solution. Stability and blow-up of these solutions are examined in this article.Text26 pages1 file (.pdf)enAttribution 4.0 InternationalNonlocal parabolic equationsBlow-upGlobal existenceSteady statesArticleThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.