Parabolic equation in time and space dependent anisotropic Musielak-Orlicz spaces in absence of Lavrentiev's phenomenon (Q2316452)

The authors study a general nonlinear parabolic equation on a Lipschitz bounded domain with bounced and measurable data: We study a general nonlinear parabolic equation on a Lipschitz bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \[ \begin{cases} \partial_t u - \operatorname{div} A(t, x, \nabla u) = f(t, x) \quad & \text{in } \Omega_T, \\u(t, x) = 0 & \text{on }(0, T) \times \partial \Omega, \\ u(0, x) = u_0(x) & \text{in } \Omega, \end{cases} \] with \(f \in L^\infty(\Omega_T)\) and \(u_0 \in L^\infty(\Omega)\). The growth of the monotone vector field \(A(t,x,\nabla u) \) is controlled by a generalized fully anisotropic \(N\)-function \(M : [0, T) \times \Omega \times \mathbb{R}^N \rightarrow [0, \infty)\) inhomogeneous in time and space, and under no growth restrictions on the last variable. Existence and uniqueness of solutions are proved when the Musielak-Orlicz space is reflexive or in absence of Lavrentiev's phenomenon. Notably challenging is the problem in non-reflexive and inhomogeneous fully anisotropic space that changes along time. To get this so interesting results, the authors impose natural assumption on the asymptotic behaviour of the modular function.