A priori estimates and continuous dependence of solutions of mixed problems for parabolic equations as nonlocal boundary conditions pass into local ones

In the rectangle G = (0, 1) × (0, T), we consider the family of problems

$$\begin{gathered} \frac{1}{{a(x,t)}}\frac{{\partial u_\alpha }}{{\partial t}} - \frac{{\partial ^2 u_\alpha }}{{\partial x^2 }} = f(x,t), u_\alpha (x,0) = \phi _\alpha (x), u_\alpha (0,t) = 0, 0 \leqslant \alpha \leqslant 1, \hfill \\ u_0 (1,t) = h(t), \frac{{\partial u_1 (1,t)}}{{\partial x}} = h(t), \frac{{u_\alpha (1,t) - u_\alpha (\alpha ,t)}}{{1 - \alpha }} = h(t), 0 < \alpha < 1, \hfill \\ a_1 \geqslant a(x,t) \geqslant a_0 > 0, h \in W_2^1 (0,T), \phi _\alpha \in W_2^1 (0,T), \phi _\alpha (0) = 0, 0 \leqslant \alpha \leqslant 1, \hfill \\ \phi _0 (1) = h(0), \phi '_1 (1) = h(0), \frac{{\phi _\alpha (1) - \phi _\alpha (0)}}{{1 - \alpha }} = h(0), 0 < \alpha < 1, f \in L_2 (G) \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$

. It is well known that, for α = 0 and α = 1, the corresponding problems with local conditions are solvable, and the solutions are unique and belong to W ₂ ^2,1 (G).

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the family of problems with nonlocal conditions for each α ∈ (0, 1). For the differences u _α ? u ₀ and u _α ? u ₁ (0 < α < 1), we establish a priori estimates and use them to prove that if ? _α → ? ₀ as α → 0, then u _α → u ₀ and if ? _α → ? ₁ as α → 1, then u _α → u ₁.