Asymptotic behavior of a semilinear problem in heat conduction with memory (Q1265570)

The authors investigate the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic properties of solutions to a Volterra integro-differential equation arising in the mathematical modeling of heat flow in materials with memory. The existence-uniqueness theory is developed with the help of a Faedo-Galerkin scheme. The key result in the study of long time behavior of solutions is a theorem establishing the existence of absorbing sets in a suitable weighted Hilbert space.