Some noncoercive parabolic equations with lower order terms in divergence form (Q1412088)

In the article, the authors deals with existence and regularity properties for the problem \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} &u_t - \text{div}(a(x,t,u)\nabla u = - \text{div}(uE) &&\quad \text{in } Q = \Omega\times (0,T),\\ &u = 0 &&\quad \text{on } \partial\Omega\times (0,T),\\ &u(0) = u_0 &&\quad \text{in } \Omega, \end{alignedat} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 2\) and \(T > 0\). Here \(a(x,t,s):\Omega\times (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\) is a function which is continuous with respect to \(s\) for almost every \((x,t)\in\Omega\times (0,T)\), measurable with respect to \((x,t)\) for every \(s\in \mathbb{R}\), and satisfies the following boundedness and coercivity assumptions: \[ 0 < \alpha \leq a(x,t,s) \leq \beta, \] for almost every \((x,t)\in\Omega\times (0,T)\), for every \(s\in R\), where \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are two positive constants. As far as the data are concerned, it is assumed that \[ u_0 \in L^1(\Omega),\quad E \in (L^2(Q))^N. \] The main aim is to get existence results for the original problem using a priori estimates for an approximate problem in the framework of entropy solutions.