Existence of the maximal weak solution for a class of singular parabolic equations (Q645406)

The authors consider the initial-boundary value problem for the following class of singular parabolic equations, \[ \frac{\partial w}{\partial t}-\Delta w=k(x,t)-\gamma\frac{|\nabla w|^2}{w}, \qquad w\geq0, \qquad (x,t)\in Q_T, \] where \(\gamma>0\), \(T>0\), \(Q_T=\Omega\times(0,T)\), \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N (N\geq2)\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Under some additional conditions, by using the parabolic regularization, the authors prove that there exists a weak solution for the problem. Moreover, they also show that the solution obtained by parabolic regularization is the maximal solution among all weak solutions.