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Degenerate nonlinear parabolic equations with discontinuous diffusion coefficients

Kwon, Dohyun; Mészáros, Alpár Richárd

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Dohyun Kwon



Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of some nonlinear parabolic equations with discontinuous diffusion intensities. Such problems appear naturally in physical and biological models. Our analysis is based on variational techniques and in particular on gradient flows in the space of probability measures equipped with the distance arising in the Monge–Kantorovich optimal transport problem. The associated internal energy functionals in general fail to be differentiable, therefore classical results do not apply directly in our setting. We study the combination of both linear and porous medium type diffusions and we show the existence and uniqueness of the solutions in the sense of distributions in suitable Sobolev spaces. Our notion of solution allows us to give a fine characterization of the emerging critical regions, observed previously in numerical experiments. A link to a three phase free boundary problem is also pointed out.

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Kwon, D., & Mészáros, A. R. (2021). Degenerate nonlinear parabolic equations with discontinuous diffusion coefficients. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 104(2), 688-746. https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.12444

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 6, 2021
Online Publication Date Feb 22, 2021
Publication Date Sep 1, 2021
Deposit Date Feb 22, 2021
Publicly Available Date Oct 7, 2021
Journal Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Print ISSN 0024-6107
Electronic ISSN 1469-7750
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 104
Issue 2
Pages 688-746
DOI https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.12444
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1252239
Related Public URLs https://londmathsoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1112/jlms.12444

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