Large time behavior for a viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with Neumann boundary condition (Q2566135)

In this paper, the following initial boundary value problem \[ \begin{cases} \frac {\partial u}{\partial t}-\Delta u=a|\nabla u|^p\quad &\text{in }(0, +\infty) \times\Omega,\\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial v}(t,x)=0\quad &\text{on }(0,+\infty) \times\partial\Omega,\\ u(0,x)=\mu_0(x)\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(a\in\mathbb{R}\), \(a\neq 0\), \(p>0\) and \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\) is a bounded and convex open set is considered, and some existence and uniqueness results, when the initial data are a continuous function in \(\overline\Omega\), are given. Then, the authors study the large time behavior of the solutions according to the exponent \(p\). The results rely on some remarkable estimates for the gradient of the solutions of problem (1), obtained by using a Bernstein technique. These estimates are used as the key argument in the proof of the extinction result. More exactly they show that: if \(p\in(0,1)\), then, for any solution \(u\) of problem (1) with initial data in \(C(\overline\Omega)\), there exists \(T^*>0\) and \(c\in\mathbb{R}\) such that \(u(t,x)\equiv c\) for all \(t>T^*\) and \(x\in\Omega\). This property is called ``the extinction of the gradient of the solution \(u\) in finite time''. Also, the authors prove that, for \(p\geq 1\), any solution of problem (1) converges uniformly to a constant, as \(t\to\infty\).