“…In recent years, the global existence and blow-up of solutions to the following model (M 1 ) u t − ∆u = f (u), x ∈ Ω, t > 0, u(x, t) = 0, x ∈ ∂Ω, t > 0, u(x, 0) = u 0 (x), x ∈ Ω has been studied extensively by many authors, see for example ( [41], [26], [36], [20], [2]) and the references therein where the authors have assumed the following conditions on the nonlinearity f (u) :…”