Variational principle for general diffusion problems

DOI10.1007/S00245-004-0801-2MaRDI QIDQ1763070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Petrelli, Adrian Tudorascu

Publication date 21 February 2005

Published in Applied Mathematics and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00245-004-0801-2

zbMATH Keywords

equations of Fokker-Plank typemaximum principleNeumann type boundary conditionsWasserstein distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations (35K60) Applications of functional analysis in optimization, convex analysis, mathematical programming, economics (46N10)

Review text

The authors study the existence of weak solutions for a class of nonhomogeneous parabolic equations of Fokker-Plank type having time dependent nonlinear diffusion term and drift coefficient, and with Neumann type boundary conditions. The weak solutions are constructed (approximated) by using a variational principle expressed in terms of the Wasserstein distance. A needed maximum principle for the equations under consideration is previously established.

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