Abstract
This paper is devoted to the study of semilinear degenerate elliptic boundary value problems arising in combustion theory that obey a general Arrhenius equation and a general Newton law of heat exchange. Our degenerate boundary conditions include as particular cases the isothermal condition (Dirichlet condition) and the adiabatic condition (Neumann condition). We prove that ignition and extinction phenomena occur in the stable steady temperature profile at some critical values of a dimensionless rate of heat production. More precisely, we give sufficient conditions for our semilinear boundary value problems to have three positive solutions, which suggests that the bifurcation curves are S-shaped.
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