Singular diffusion with Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract: In this paper we develop an existence theory for the nonlinear initial-boundary value problem with singular diffusion

p a r t i a l_{t} u = e x t d i v (k (x) a b l a G (u))

,

u |_{t = 0} = u_{0}

with Neumann boundary conditions

k (x) a b l a G (u) c d o t u = 0

. Here

x i n B s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{d}

, a bounded open set with locally Lipchitz boundary, and with

u

as the unit outer normal. The function

G

is Lipschitz continuous and nondecreasing, while

k (x)

is diagonal matrix. We show that any two weak entropy solutions

u

and

v

satisfy

V e r t u (t) - v (t) V e r t_{L^{1} (B)} l e V e r t u |_{t = 0} - v |_{t = 0} V e r t_{L^{1} (B)} e^{C t}

, for almost every

t g e 0

, and a constant

C = C (k, G, B)

. If we restrict to the case when the entries

k_{i}

of

k

depend only on the corresponding component,

k_{i} = k_{i} (x_{i})

, we show that there exists an entropy solution, thus establishing in this case that the problem is well-posed in the sense of Hadamard.

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