Propagation property for anisotropic nonlinear diffusion equation with convection (Q1018179)

The authors consider the propagation property for anisotropic diffusion with convection in two dimension, \[ \partial _t\left( u^m\right) -\partial _{x_1}\left( \left| \partial _{x_1}u\right| ^{p_1-1}\partial _{x_1}u\right) -\partial _{x_2}\left( \left| \partial _{x_2}u\right| ^{p_2-1}\partial _{x_2}u\right) \pm u^{\alpha -1}\partial _{x_1}u=0, \] where \(p_1,p_2,m,\alpha >0\). The paper is in fact a generalization of some previous results of the authors. Among the results, the authors show that perturbation for the nonnegative solution propagates with infinite speed in \(x_1\) - direction and with finite speed in \(x_2\) - direction if \(0<\alpha <m<p_2\). Also, the authors show that the anisotropic propagation may appear when the convection term is weak, backward, or even missing, if \(0<p_1<m\leq p_2,p_1\leq 1\). The paper is organized in four sections. Section 1 represents an introductory part. In Section 2 the authors consider the infinite and finite speed propagation of perturbation for equation \( \left( 1\right) \) with forward convection. The infinite and finite speed propagation for the inverse convection equation is treated in Section 3. In Section 4 the authors summarize the results and give a classification of propagation properties in terms of the parameters \(p_1,p_2,m\) and \(\alpha\).