The Cauchy problem for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations

The present paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for the parabolic equation u_t+H(t,x,u,u)=u. New conditions guaranteeing the global classical solvability are formulated. Moreover, it is shown that the same conditions guarantee the global existence of the Lipschitz continuous viscosity solution for the related Hamilton–Jacobi equation. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 35K15, 35F25     

Critical spaces for quasilinear parabolic evolution equations and applications

We present a comprehensive theory of critical spaces for the broad class of quasilinear parabolic evolution equations. The approach is based on maximal $L_p$-regularity in time-weighted function spaces. It is shown that our notion of critical spaces coincides with the concept of scaling invariant spaces in case that the underlying partial differential equation enjoys a scaling invariance. Applications to the vorticity equations for the Navier–Stokes problem, convection–diffusion equations, the Nernst–Planck–Poisson equations in electro-chemistry, chemotaxis equations, the MHD equations, and some other well-known parabolic equations are given.     

Self-similar solutions of quasilinear parabolic equations with nonlinear gradient terms

This paper is devoted to study the classification of self-similar solutions to the m ≥ 1,p,q ＞ 0 and p + q ＞ m. For m = 1, it is shown that the very singular self-similar solution exists if and only if nq + (n + 1)p ＜ n + 2, and in case of existence, such solution is unique. For m ＞ 1, it is shown that very singular self-similar solutions exist if and only if 1 ＜ m ＜ 2 and nq + (n + 1)p ＜ 2 + mn, and such solutions have compact support if they exist. Moreover, the interface relation is obtained.     

Stability of solutions of quasilinear parabolic equations

We bound the difference between solutions u and v of ut=aΔu+divxf+h and vt=bΔv+divxg+k with initial data φ and ψ, respectively, by

     

Viscosity solutions of a class of degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition

This paper is concerned with viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations in a bounded domain with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The equation under consideration arises from a number of practical model problems including reaction–diffusion processes in a porous medium. The degeneracy of the problem appears on the boundary and possibly in the interior of the domain. The goal of this paper is to establish some comparison properties between viscosity upper and lower solutions and to show the existence of a continuous viscosity solution between them. An application of the above results is given to a porous-medium type of reaction–diffusion model which demonstrates some distinctive properties of the solution when compared with the corresponding semilinear problem.     

On the existence of optimal controls for quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations

A class of systems governed by quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations with first boundary conditions is considered. Existence of solutions for this class of systems and theira priori estimates are established. Further, a theorem on the existence of optimal controls for the corresponding control problem is obtained. Its proof is based on Filippov's implicit functions lemma. The control restraint setU is taken as a measurable multifunction.The authors wish to thank Professor L. Cesari for his most valuable comments and suggestions. In fact, a condition assumed in the original version of this paper was substantially relaxed by him. For details, see Remark 4.1.     

Global solutions for quasilinear parabolic problems

Results on the global existence of classical solutions for quasilinear parabolic equations in bounded domains with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions are presented. Besides quasilinear parabolic equations, the method is also applicable to some weakly-coupled reaction-diffusion systems and to elliptic equations with nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions. Received December 21, 2000; accepted August 30, 2001.     

Quasilinear degenerate parabolic equations of Kirchhoff type

We investigate the evolution problem where H is a Hilbert space, A is a self‐adjoint linear non‐negative operator on H with domain D(A), and is a continuous function. We prove that if , and , then there exists at least one global solution, which is unique if either m never vanishes, or m is locally Lipschitz continuous. Moreover, we prove that if for all , then this problem is well posed in H. On the contrary, if for some it happens that for all , then this problem has no solution if with β small enough. We apply these results to degenerate parabolic PDEs with non‐local non‐linearities. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Uniqueness for second-order parabolic equations with discontinuous coefficients

We prove uniqueness of the good solution to the Cauchy–Dirichlet (C–D) problem for linear non-variational parabolic equations with the coefficients of the principal part with discountinuities, in cases in which in general uniqueness of strong solutions in Sobolev spaces does not hold. In particular, we prove uniqueness when the discontinuities of the coefficients are contained in a hyperplane t = t ₀ and, with an extra condition on the eigenvalues of the matrix, in a line segment x = x ₀. Mathematics Subject Classification. 35A05, 35K10, 35K20 Dedicated to the memory of Gene Fabes.     

On the definition of viscosity solutions for parabolic equations

In this short note we suggest a refinement for the definition of viscosity solutions for parabolic equations. The new version of the definition is equivalent to the usual one and it better adapts to the properties of parabolic equations. The basic idea is to determine the admissibility of a test function based on its behavior prior to the given moment of time and ignore what happens at times after that.

     

Global existence and blowup solutions for quasilinear parabolic equations

The authors discuss the quasilinear parabolic equation ut=∇⋅(g(u)∇u)+h(u,∇u)+f(u) with u_|∂Ω=0, u(x,0)=?(x). If f, g and h are polynomials with proper degrees and proper coefficients, they show that the blowup property only depends on the first eigenvalue of −Δ in Ω with Dirichlet boundary condition. For a special case, they obtain a sharp result.     

Determining nodes for semilinear parabolic equations

We are concerned with the determination of the asymptotic behavior of strong solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for general semilinear parabolic equations by the asymptotic behavior of these strong solutions on a finite set. More precisely, if the asymptotic behavior of the strong solution is known on a suitable finite set which is called determining nodes, then the asymptotic behavior of the strong solution itself is entirely determined. We prove the above property by the energy method.     

Harnack's inequality for parabolic nonlocal equations

The main result of this paper is a nonlocal version of Harnack's inequality for a class of parabolic nonlocal equations. We additionally establish a weak Harnack inequality as well as local boundedness of solutions. None of the results require the solution to be globally positive.     

Localized peaking regimes for quasilinear parabolic equations

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior as of all weak (energy) solutions of a class of equations with the following model representative: with prescribed global energy function Here , , , Ω is a bounded smooth domain, . Particularly, in the case it is proved that the solution u remains uniformly bounded as in an arbitrary subdomain and the sharp upper estimate of when has been obtained depending on and . In the case for all , sharp sufficient conditions on degeneration of near that guarantee the above mentioned boundedness for an arbitrary (even large) solution have been found and the sharp upper estimate of a final profile of the solution when has been obtained.     

Grid approximation of singularly perturbed parabolic equations in the presence of weak and strong transient layers induced by a discontinuous right-hand side

The initial value problem on a line for singularly perturbed parabolic equations with convective terms is investigated. The first-and the second-order space derivatives are multiplied by the parameters ?₁ and ?₂, respectively, which may take arbitrarily small values. The right-hand side of the equations has a discontinuity of the first kind on the set $\bar \gamma $ = [x = 0] × [0, T]. Depending on the relation between the parameters, the appearing transient layers can be parabolic or regular, and the “intensity” of the layer (the maximum of the singular component) on the left and on the right of $\bar \gamma $ can be substantially different. If the parameter ?₂ at the convective term is finite, the transient layer is weak. For the initial value problems under consideration, the condensing grid method is used to construct finite difference schemes whose solutions converge (in the discrete maximum norm) to the exact solution uniformly with respect to ?₁ and ?₂ (when ?₂ is finite and, therefore, the transient layers are weak, no condensing grids are required).     

On a system of quasilinear parabolic functional differential equations

Summary We consider initial boundary value problems for a system of second order quasilinear parabolic equations where also the main part contains functional dependence on the unknown function. This system is of type, considered in [6], [7] by U. Hornung, W. J?ger and A. Mikelic.     

Boundary layers for the 3D primitive equations in a cube: The Zero-mode

We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of the zero-mode of the linearized Primitive Equations in a cube. Our method is based on the explicit construction and estimates of the boundary layers. This result, together with that in [12, 15], allows us to conclude the vanishing viscosity limit of the linearized Primitive Equations in a cube.     

Dynamical spectrum for scalar parabolic equations

In this paper we compute the dynamical spectrum for time dependent scalar parabolic equations with both Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions. In order to do that, first, we put forward the concepts of negative continuation, exponential dichotomy and Dynamical Spectrum for linear skew product semiflows. Second, we set the problem in the skew product semiflow frame work and compute explicitly the dynamical spectrum for this semiflow. Finally, we compute the dynamical spectrum for a time dependent system of ordinary differential equations that is obtained by spatially discretizing of the parabolic equation