Non-simultaneous blow-up of n components for nonlinear parabolic systems

This paper deals with non-simultaneous and simultaneous blow-up for radially symmetric solution (u₁,u₂,…,un) to heat equations coupled via nonlinear boundary (i=1,2,…,n). It is proved that there exist suitable initial data such that ui(i∈{1,2,…,n}) blows up alone if and only if qi+1<pi. All of the classifications on the existence of only two components blowing up simultaneously are obtained. We find that different positions (different values of k, i, n) of ui−k and ui leads to quite different blow-up rates. It is interesting that different initial data lead to different blow-up phenomena even with the same requirements on exponent parameters. We also propose that ui−k,ui−k+1,…,ui blow up simultaneously while the other ones remain bounded in different exponent regions. Moreover, the blow-up rates and blow-up sets are obtained.