Global behaviour of solutions to a parabolic mean curvature equation (Q1901092)

The authors investigate the global behaviour of solutions of \[ u_t- \text{div}\Biggl({Du\over \sqrt{1+|Du|^2}}\Biggr)= 1\quad\text{in}\quad \Omega\times (0, \infty) \] in the case that there is no stationary solution. In this case solutions may blow up as \(t\to \infty\) and may detatch from their boundary values. The authors use the theory of viscosity solutions to investigate these phenomena in detail in the special cases that \(\Omega\) is either a ball in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) or a square in \(\mathbb{R}^2\). They verify certain conjectures of \textit{P. Marcellini} and \textit{K. Miller} [J. Differ. Equ. 51, 326-358 (1984; Zbl 0545.35044)] concerning the relation between solutions of the above problem and a certain isoperimetric problem.