Attractors of Some Reaction Diffusion Problems (Q4699181)

The authors consider parabolic equations of the form \[ u_t=\varepsilon^2u_{xx}+f(x,u),\quad 0<x<1,\;t>0, \] where \(\varepsilon\) is a small positive parameter. From the authors' abstract: In this paper we study the existence and stability properties of certain solutions of a semilinear parabolic equation with Robin boundary conditions. We are actually interested in solutions that exhibit both boundary and internal layers. We give an extension of the Sturm-Liouville theory to treat this problem and compute the number of stable solutions. We also completely determine the attractor for a few examples. Finally, we show that our results are robust and that, in particular, the structure of these attractors persists under small perturbations.