Rate of convergence of global attractors of some perturbed reaction-diffusion problems (Q378459)

The authors consider a prototype problem: \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} u_t^\varepsilon-\text{div}(a_\varepsilon(x)\nabla u^\varepsilon & =f(u^\varepsilon)\quad & \text{in }&(0,+\infty) \times \Omega,\\ u^\varepsilon(t,x) & =0 \quad &\text{in }& (0,+\infty) \times \partial\Omega,\\ u^\varepsilon(0,x)& =u_0^\varepsilon(x) \quad &\text{in }&\Omega.\end{alignedat} \] In this problem \(\Omega\) is a bounded, regular domain in \(\mathbb{R}^{N}\) with \(N \geq 2\), \(\varepsilon \in [0,1]\) is the perturbation parameter and \(f\) is a continuously differentiable, dissipative nonlinearity. As \(\varepsilon\) goes to zero, the diffusivity \(a_{\varepsilon}\) converges to \(a_0\) (the undisturbed diffusion coefficient) uniformly in \(\Omega\). Quoting the authors in their introduction: ``\dots we investigate the rate of convergence of the attractors of some gradient problems under (singular) perturbation. Our aim is to obtain the rate of convergence of attractors in terms of the rate of convergence of the semigroups and the later in terms of the parameters in the corresponding models''.