Asymptotic behavior for a class of nonclassical parabolic equations (Q469807)

Summary: This paper is devoted to the qualitative analysis of a class of nonclassical parabolic equations \(u_t-\epsilon\Delta u_t-\omega\Delta u+f(u)=g(x)\) with critical nonlinearity, where \(\epsilon\in[0,1]\) and \(\omega>0\) are two parameters. Firstly, we establish some uniform decay estimates for the solutions of the problem for \(g(x)\in H^{-1}(\Omega)\), which are independent of the parameter \(\epsilon\). Secondly, some uniformly (with respect to \(\epsilon\in[0,1]\)) asymptotic regularity about the solutions has been established for \(g(x)\in L^2(\Omega)\), which shows that the solutions are exponentially approaching a more regular, fixed subset uniformly (with respect to \(\epsilon\in[0,1]\)). Finally, as an application of this regularity result, a family \(\{\mathcal E_\epsilon\}_{\epsilon\in[0,1]}\) of finite dimensional exponential attractors has been constructed. Moreover, to characterize the relation with the reaction diffusion equation \((\epsilon=0)\), the upper semicontinuity, at \(\epsilon=0\), of the global attractors has been proved.