Attractors of parabolic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions. uniform bounds (Q4947019)

In this paper the asymptotic behaviour of semilinear parabolic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions of the following form: \[ \begin{aligned} u_t-\text{div} \bigl(a(x) \nabla u)+c(x)u= f(x,u)\text{ in }\Omega,\quad u=0\text{ on }\Gamma_0,\\ a(t){\partial u\over\partial n}+b(x)u= g(x,u)\text{ on } \Gamma_1,\quad u(0)=u_0, \tag{1}\end{aligned} \] is considered. There \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N\) is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\Gamma\), \(\Gamma= \Gamma_0\cup \Gamma_1\) and \(\overline\Gamma_0 \cap\overline\Gamma_1 =\emptyset\); \(a,b,c\) are \(C^1(\Omega)\) functions such that \(a(x)\geq m>0\) for \(x\in\Omega\), \(f(x,\cdot)\), \(g(x,\cdot): \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\) are locally Lipschitz functions uniformly in \(x\in \overline\Omega\). The problem (1) is studied in the spaces \(L^q(\Omega)\) or \(W^{1,q}_{\Gamma_0} (\Omega):= \{u\in W^{1,q} (\Omega):u=0\) in \(\Gamma_0\}\) for \(1<q< \infty\). In another paper, these same authors have shown that under suitable groth restrictions (G) on the nonlinearities \(f\) and \(g\), problem (1) has locally a unique mild solution, which depends continuously on the initial data \(u_0\) and it is a classical solution for \(t>0\). In this paper, under conditions (G) and some sign conditions (S) on the nonlinear terms \(f\) and \(g\), the global existence of solution of a (1) for all \(t\geq 0\) is obtained. These sign conditions combined with the smoothing effect of the equation, are used to obtain estimates on the solution in the sup norm. Moreover under the growth condition (G) and the dissipativeness condition (D) the semigroup \(\{S(t),t\geq 0\}\) associated to (1) is showed to have a global attractor. The bounds on the attractors which are uniform with respect to variation on the diffusion coefficient \(a\) and, in some cases, on the domain \(\Omega\). On the end the case of measures as initial data and the case of nonsmooth coefficients \(a,b,c\) are discussed.