Abstract

In this article, we are concerned with a problem for the -Laplacian parabolic equation with logarithmic nonlinearity; the blow-up result of the solution is proven. This work is completed Boulaaras’ work in Math. Methods Appl. Sci., (2020), where the author did not study the blowup of the solution.

1. Introduction

In the current manuscript, we consider the following initial-boundary value problem for a nonlinear -Laplacian equation: where is a bounded domain with smooth boundary and is the initial data satisfying

The terminology of nonlinear polynomials is among the work that researchers have focused on recently. For example, it is found in edge detection and optical elasticity, materials science, engineering, physics, and photonics. In addition, many works and problems in applied sciences have been designed and proposed by means of partial differential equations, including the modeling of some dynamic systems in physics and engineering ([113]).

The same is said for the evolutionary partial differential equations associated with -Laplacian (see [8, 14, 15]).

We also note that logarithmic nonlinearity has been concerned by many scientists and researchers, and it has introduced many issues, including the wave equation (see [3, 1618]).

And for more information on some of the other works to which this term was introduced, we refer the reader to [13, 14, 1624].

Later on, in [25], the authors by the multiplier method gave the energy decay of the solution of the following problem:

In addition, the authors in [14] proved the decay rate of solutions (exponential and polynomial) by using the inequality of Nakao for the seminar problem (3).

On the other hand, for the Laplacian parabolic equation with the logarithmic source term in [21], Chen et al. studied the following problem:

Then, in [23], the authors proved the global existence, the decay, and the blowup of the solutions of the problem: where

Also, in [14], the authors established the global boundedness and the blowup of the solution of the problem (5) for .

Motivated by the last recent mentioned works, here, we investigated problem (1) with the nonlinear diffusion and logarithmic nonlinearity which extends problem in [14]. Our goal is to blow up solutions for problem (1) in order to put some preliminaries. More precisely, we give the blow-up result.

2. Preliminaries

As a starting point, we gave some essential definitions and lemmas. for , and we symbolize the positive constants by and ().

Lemma 1 [7] (logarithmic Sobolev inequality). Let be all function . Then, for , , where

Remark 2. Let , and by defining for , we can write

3. Blowup

In this third section, we gave the proof of blowup of solution of our problem.

Theorem 3. For any initial data , the problem (1) has a unique weak solution: for some .

First, we introduce the energy functional in the following lemma.

Lemma 4. Let be a solution of (1), then is nonincreasing; that is, satisfies

Proof. Multiplying (1) by and integrating on , we have Thus,

To get to our goal of proving the main result, we define the functional

Theorem 5. Assume that , then the solution of problem (1) blows up in finite time.

Proof. From (12), we have Hence, We set where and Multiplying (1) by and the derivative of (18) gives Adding and subtracting into (20) (), we obtain Applying the logarithmic Sobolev inequality gives Setting and taking give since Consequently, for some , inequality (25) gives Next, by (18), we have Therefore, where , Hence, According to (25) and (30), we get where , depending only on and .
Finally, by integrating (31), we obtain Hence, blows up in time: As a result, the proof is completed. ☐

Data Availability

No data were used to support the study.

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares that he has no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

The researcher would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, Qassim University, for funding the publication of this project.