The effect of domain squeezing upon the dynamics of reaction-diffusion equations (Q5943390)

The authors study the longtime behavior of solutions of the following reaction-diffusion equation with a small parameter \(\varepsilon>0\): \[ u_t=\Delta_x+f(u),\;\;x=(x_1,x_2)\in\Omega_\varepsilon,\quad \partial_{\nu_\varepsilon}u\big|_{\partial\Omega_\varepsilon}=0, \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^M\times\mathbb R^N\) is a bounded smooth domain, \(\Omega_\varepsilon:=\{(x_1,\varepsilon x_2),\;\;(x_1,x_2)\in\Omega\}\) and \(\nu_\varepsilon\) is the exterior normal vector field on \(\partial\Omega_\varepsilon\). It is well known that, under some growth and dissipativeness restrictions on the nonlinearity \(f\), problem (1) generates a semigroup \(S_t(\varepsilon)\), \(t\geq 0\) in the phase \(H^1(\Omega_\varepsilon)\) which possesses a global attractor \(\mathcal A_\varepsilon\). The authors prove that, in some strong sense, the semigroups \(S_t(\varepsilon)\) converge as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) to the semigroup \(S_t(0)\) which is defined on the appropriate closed subspace of \(H^1(\Omega)\) and is generated by the abstract parabolic equation \[ u_t+Au=f(u), \] where \(A\) is selfadjoint positive operator which can be explicitly computed. Moreover, the upper semicontinuity of the family of the attracotrs \(\mathcal A_\varepsilon\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) is also verified.