Convergence in time-periodic quasilinear parabolic equations in one space dimension (Q1671211)

The paper is focused on the quasilinear parabolic equation in one space dimension with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions \[ \begin{cases} u_t=d(t,x,u,u_x)u_{xx}+f(t,x,u,u_x),\quad x\in (0,r(t)),\quad t>0,\\ u(t,0)=0,\quad u(t,r(t))=0,\quad t>0, \end{cases}\leqno(1) \] where \(d,\,f\in C^1\) are periodic functions in the variable \(t\), \(d>0\), and the right boundary \(r(t)\) is a positive function which might be periodic or asymptotically periodic or it is a function tending to infinity or infinity. The author studies the convergence of the bounded solutions of problem (1) as \(t\to \infty\), and he investigates the long time dynamics of initial-boundary value problem on the half line, the Stefan free boundary problem, of a general heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equation. A time-dependent curvature flow equation with driving force and time periodic coefficients is also studied.