A class of doubly degenerate parabolic equations with periodic sources (Q612900)

The authors study the existence of nontrivial nonnegative time periodic solutions to a class of doubly degenerate equations under homogeneous Dirichlet condition, \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} &\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \text{div}(|u|^r|\nabla\,u|^{p-2}\nabla\,u) + u^{\alpha}(a - bu^{\beta}), &&\quad (x,t) \in Q_T,\\ & u(x,t) = 0, &&\quad (x,t) \in \partial\Omega\times (0,T),\\ & u(x,0) = u(x,T), && \quad x \in\Omega, \end{alignedat} \] where \(r > 0\), \(p > 2\), \(0 \leq \alpha \leq 1\), \(\beta \geq 1\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^N\) with smooth boundary, \(Q_T = \Omega\times (0,T)\), \(a = a(x,t)\) and \(b = b(x,t)\) are continuous functions and of \(T\)-periodic \((T > 0)\) with respect to \(t\). The equations of this type arising in biology, physical and engineering problems and a typical example is the reaction-diffusion model \(u_t = \Delta u + u(a - bu)\). To prove the existence result the authors use the Leray-Schauder degree method. Moser iteration technique is applied to establish the upper bound estimate of the approximate solutions. The uniform lower bound of maximum modulus of the approximate solutions is also given. Here the results of the eigenvalue problem for the \(p\)-Laplacian equation are taken into the consideration.