Large time behaviour of the doubly nonlinear porous medium equation (Q1814149)

Asymptotic properties of nonnegative solutions of the general porous medium equation in the slow diffusion and the limit diffusion cases are studied. Consider: \[ \partial_ tu=\Delta_ pu\quad\text{ in } Q=\Omega\times(0,\infty),\quad p>1,\quad m>0, \] \[ u^ m=0\quad\text{ on } \partial\Omega\times(0,\infty),\quad u(x,0)=u_ 0(x)\qquad \text{ in } \Omega; \] with \(u^ m_ 0\in C^ 1(\overline\Omega)\), \(u_ 0\geq(\not\equiv 0)\) in \(\Omega\), \(u_ 0=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded arcwise connected open set of \(R^ N\) whose boundary \(\partial\Omega\) is \(C^ 2\); and, the \(p\)-Laplacian operator is \(\Delta_ pv=\text{div}(|\nabla v|^{p-2}\nabla v)\). Similar problems arise by modeling water infiltration through porous media in the turbulent regime. Under the slow diffusion hypothesis, \(m(p-1)>1\), the existence of a time ``\(T\)'' is established such that \(u^ m(x,t)\geq cd(x)\), \(\forall x\in\Omega\), \(\forall t\geq T\), (\(d\) is the distance from \(x\) to \(\partial\Omega\)). And, the estimate \(\|(1+t)^ \gamma u(.,t)- v\|_{L^ \infty}\leq c(1+t)^{-1}\), \(\forall t\geq 0\), where \(\gamma=1/[(p-1)m-1]\), and \(v^ m\) is the unique solution of the steady state problem: \[ -\Delta_ p\omega=\gamma\omega^{1/m},\quad \omega\geq 0\;\;(\not\equiv 0)\;\text{ in }\Omega,\quad \omega=0\;\text{ on } \partial \Omega. \] In the limit case \(m(p-1)=1\), the estimate \(\| e^{\lambda_ 1t}u(.,t)-v_ 1\|_{L^ \infty}\leq C\), \(\forall t\geq 0\) follows, where \(\lambda_ 1\) is the first eigenvalue of \(\Delta_ p\) and \(v_ 1\) is the corresponding eigenfunction. The main idea is to compare the corresponding solution with suitable radially symmetric sub and supersolutions of ``product type'' or of ``Barenblatt type''.