%0 Book Section %T Temperature fronts in one-dimensional media publisher Longman Scientific & Technical %D 1987 %U 0-582-99459-4 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/65475 %X The paper surveys some recent results for the one-dimensional nonlinear heat equation with absorption subject to continuous nonnegative initial data with compact support. Without absorption, the equation becomes the porous media equation. (Generalized) solutions with interfaces, source- type solutions and the behavior of the fronts are also discussed. %~