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September  2014, 13(5): 1907-1933. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.1907

Reaction-diffusion equations with a switched--off reaction zone

Peter E. Kloeden 1, , Thomas Lorenz 2, and  Meihua Yang 3,

1. 

Institut für Mathematik, Goethe Universität, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main
2. 

Institute of Mathematics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 60054 Frankfurt (Main)
3. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074

Received  March 2013 Revised  May 2013 Published  June 2014

Reaction-diffusion equations are considered on a bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a reaction term that is switched off at a point in space when the solution first exceeds a specified threshold and thereafter remains switched off at that point, which leads to a discontinuous reaction term with delay. This problem is formulated as a parabolic partial differential inclusion with delay. The reaction-free region forms what could be called dead core in a biological sense rather than that used elsewhere in the literature for parabolic PDEs. The existence of solutions in $L^2(\Omega)$ is established firstly for initial data in $L^{\infty}(\Omega)$ and in $W_0^{1,2}(\Omega)$ by different methods, with $d$ $=$ $2$ or $3$ in the first case and $d$ $\geq$ $2$ in the second. Solutions here are interpreted in the sense of integral or strong solutions of nonhomogeneous linear parabolic equations in $L^2(\Omega)$ that are generalised to selectors of the corresponding nonhomogeneous linear parabolic differential inclusions and are shown to be equivalent under the assumptions used in the paper.
Keywords: Reaction-diffusion equation, dead core, existence of solutions., memory, inclusion equations, discontinuous right-hand sides.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R70; Secondary: 35K15, 35K5.
Citation: Peter E. Kloeden, Thomas Lorenz, Meihua Yang. Reaction-diffusion equations with a switched--off reaction zone. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2014, 13 (5) : 1907-1933. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.1907
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