The gradient blowup of the equation ut = △u ＋ a（x）｜△u｜p ＋ h（x）, where p 〉 2, is studied. It is shown that the gradient blowup rate will never match that of the self-similar variables. The exact blowup rate for radial solutions is established under the assumptions on the initial data so that the solution is monotonically increasing in time.
Abstract In this paper, the blow-up rate is obtained for a porous medium equation with a nonlinear gradient term and a nonlinear boundary flux. By using a scaling method and regularity estimates of parabolic equations, the blow-up rate determined by the interaction between the diffusion and the boundary flux is obtained. Compared with previous results, the gradient term, whose exponent does not exceed two, does not affect the blow-up rate of the solutions.
