On the Well-Posedness Problem of the Anisotropic Porous Medium Equation with a Variable Diffusion Coefficient
Year: 2024
Author: Huashui Zhan
Journal of Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 37 (2024), Iss. 2 : pp. 135–149
Abstract
The initial-boundary value problem of an anisotropic porous medium equation $$u_t=\sum^N_{i=1}\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}(a(x,t)|u|^{\alpha_i}u_{x_i})+\sum^N_{i=1}\frac{\partial f_i(u,x,t)}{\partial x_i}$$ is studied. Compared with the usual porous medium equation, there are two different characteristics in this equation. One lies in its anisotropic property, another one is that there is a nonnegative variable diffusion coefficient $a(x,t)$ additionally. Since $a(x,t)$ may be degenerate on the parabolic boundary $∂Ω×(0,T),$ instead of the boundedness of the gradient $|∇u|$ for the usual porous medium, we can only show that $∇u∈ L^∞(0,T;L^2_{ {\rm loc}}(Ω)).$ Based on this property, the partial boundary value conditions matching up with the anisotropic porous medium equation are discovered and two stability theorems of weak solutions can be proved naturally.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4208/jpde.v37.n2.2
Journal of Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 37 (2024), Iss. 2 : pp. 135–149
Published online: 2024-01
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Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 15
Keywords: Anisotropic porous medium equation variable diffusion coefficient stability partial boundary condition.