Localized non-diffusive asymptotic patterns for nonlinear parabolic equations with gradient absorption

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Abstract: We study the large-time behaviour of the solutions u of the evolution equation involving nonlinear diffusion and gradient absorption partialtu−Deltapu+|ablau|q=0. We consider the problem posed for xinmathbbRN and t>0 with non-negative and compactly supported initial data. We take the exponent p>2 which corresponds to slow p-Laplacian diffusion, and the exponent q in the superlinear range 1<q<p−1. In this range the influence of the Hamilton-Jacobi term |ablau|q is determinant, and gives rise to the phenomenon of localization. The large time behaviour is described in terms of a suitable self-similar solution that solves a Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The shape of the corresponding spatial pattern is rather conical instead of bell-shaped or parabolic.


The authors deal with evolution equations of parabolic type where the right-hand side combines nonlinear diffusion of the \(p\)-Laplacian type with nonlinear absorption of Hamilton-Jacobi type. As a model, they consider \[ \partial_t u- \Delta_pu+ |\nabla u|^q= 0,\qquad x\in\mathbb R^N, \] where \(p> 2\) and \(1< q< p-1\). As initial condition the authors consider a nonnegative and integrable function \(u_0\) decaying sufficiently rapidly to zero as \(|x|\to\infty\). Under these assumptions the authors are interested in classifying the different types of long time behaviour that may arise from the interaction between the two physical effects of the work. They describe in detail a situation in which the evolution leads to localized patterns with a precise power-like decay in time and conical spatial shape.



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