Singular parabolic problems with possibly changing sign data

Ida De Bonis; Daniela Giachetti

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.2047

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2014, Volume 19, Issue 7: 2047-2064. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.2047

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Singular parabolic problems with possibly changing sign data

Ida De Bonis^1, and
Daniela Giachetti^2,

1.
Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Via Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma
2.
Dip. Metodi e Modelli Matematici per le Scienze Applicate, Univ. Roma 1, Via Antonio Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma

Received: March 31, 2013

Revised: August 31, 2013

Published: August 2014

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We show the existence of bounded solutions $u\in L^2(0,T;H^1_0(\Omega))$ for a class of parabolic equations having a lower order term $b(x,t,u,\nabla u)$ growing quadratically in the $\nabla u$-variable and singular in the $u$-variable on the set $\{u=0\}$.
We refer to the model problem $$\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} u_t - \Delta u = b(x,t) \frac{|\nabla u|^2}{|u|^k} + f(x,t) & in \Omega \times (0,T)\\ u(x,t) = 0 & on \partial\Omega\times(0,T)\\ u(x,0) = u_0 (x) &
in \Omega \end{array}\right. $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^N, N \geq 2, 0 < T < + \infty$ and $0 < k < 1$. The data $f(x,t), u_0(x)$ can change their sign, so that the possible solution $u$ can vanish inside $Q_T=\Omega\times(0,T)$ even in a set of positive measure. Therefore, we have to carefully define the meaning of solution. Also $b(x,t)$ can have a quite general sign.

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