Semilinear elliptic boundary value problems in chemical reactor theory
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Semilinear elliptic boundary value problems in chemical reactor theory
zbMATH Open document ID: 0917.35040
author: Kazuaki Taira
author: K. Umezu
published in: Journal of Differential Equations
publication date: 1999-08-05T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2241/00123933
review text: This paper is devoted to the study of the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem \(Au(x)= f(\lambda, u)\) in a bounded domain \(D\subset \mathbb{R}^N\) \((N\geq 2)\) with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition on the smooth boundary \(\partial D\); \(A\) is a second-order strongly elliptic differential operator with real smooth coefficients defined in \(\overline D\). Such equations arise in chemical reactor theory. The function \(f(\lambda, u)= \lambda\exp[u/(1+ \varepsilon u)]\) \((\varepsilon, \lambda>0)\) describes the temperature dependence of reaction rate for exotermic reactions obeying the simple Arrhenius rate law in circumstances in which heat flow is purely conductive. The same authors have already shown in [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 29, No. 7, 761-771 (1997; Zbl 0878.35048)] that for each positive \(\lambda\), the problem under consideration has at least one positive solution and it is unique if \(\varepsilon\geq 1/4\). In the present paper, the authors study the case \(0<\varepsilon< 1/4\) and prove the existence of at least three distinct positive solutions provided that certain relations between \(\lambda\) and \(\varepsilon\) are satisfied. Moreover, two existence and uniqueness results are stated for \(\lambda\) sufficiently small and sufficiently large.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35K57
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35B30
zbMATH DE Number: 1212879
zbMATH Keywords: Newtonian cooling
zbMATH Keywords: ignition
zbMATH Keywords: extinction
zbMATH Keywords: three positive solutions
zbMATH Keywords: Arrhenius rate law
zbMATH Keywords: existence
zbMATH Keywords: uniqueness
reviewed by: Dimitar A. Kolev
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W1978352365
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DOI: 10.1006/JDEQ.1997.3349
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