%0 Journal Article %T Continuity of the quenching time in a semilinear heat equation with a potential %A BONI %A TH¨¦ODORE K. %A KOUAKOU %A THIBAUT K. %J Revista Colombiana de Matem¨¢ticas %D 2009 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Sociedad Colombiana de Matem¨¢ticas %X in this paper, we consider a semilinear heat equation with a potential subject to neumann boundary conditions and positive initial data. under some assumptions, we show that the solution of the above problem quenches in a finite time and estimate its quenching time. we also prove the continuity of the quenching time as a function of the potential and the initial data. finally, we give some numerical results to illustrate our analysis. %K quenching %K semilinear heat equation %K numerical quenching time. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-74262009000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en