Multiple absorption-related blow-up rates to a coupled heat system

AbstractThis paper deals with asymptotic behavior of solutions to a heat system with absorptions and coupling positive multi-nonlinearities. It is known that although absorption mechanisms may affect such as blow-up criteria, blow-up time, and initial data required for blow-up solutions, they cannot change blow-up rates of solutions in general. It has been reported in the current literature that blow-up rates for scalar equations with absorptions are all absorption-independent. In a previous paper of the authors, four absorption-independent simultaneous blow-up rates were obtained already for the same problem under weak absorptions. The present paper will furthermore prove that if the absorptions are unbalanced in the model (i.e., the absorption is stronger for one component and weaker for another), then there are in addition eight possible absorption-related blow-up rates for the model, besides the four absorption-independent ones. This exposes a significant difference between scalar and coupled nonlinear parabolic equations with absorptions