Rothe's method for an integrodifferential equation with integral conditions (Q2653978)

The paper deals with one space dimensional parabolic equation with integral term on the right hand side and integral boundary condition of the type: \[ u_t-u_{xx}=\int_{0}^{t} a(t-s)k(s,u(x,s))ds +f(x,t) \] \[ u(x,0)=U_0(x), \;\;x \in(0,1) \] \[ u_x(0,t)=\alpha(t), \;\;\int _0^1 u(x,t) dx =E(t), \;\;t \in I=[0,T]. \] Under certain assumption on the data of the problem existence and uniqueness of the weak solution is proved. The definition of a weak solution is presented first and it is derived on appropriate functional spaces to include integral boundary condition (the definition of the function \(k\) which is included in the integral part of the right hand side is omitted here). The existence and uniqueness proof is based on Rothe's method, first for the homogeneous problem and then using a transformation also for the original one.