Open Access Research Article

Properties of Positive Solution for Nonlocal Reaction-Diffusion Equation with Nonlocal Boundary

Yulan Wang1,2*, Chunlai Mu2 and Zhaoyin Xiang3

Author Affiliations

1 School of Mathematics and Computer Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China

2 Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

3 School of Applied Mathematics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:064579 doi:10.1155/2007/64579


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Received:21 January 2007
Accepted:11 April 2007
Published:30 May 2007

© 2007 Wang et al.

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This paper considers the properties of positive solutions for a nonlocal equation with nonlocal boundary condition on . The conditions on the existence and nonexistence of global positive solutions are given. Moreover, we establish the uniform blow-up estimates for the blow-up solution.

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