We prove existence of weak solutions to doubly degenerate diffusion equations $$\dot{u}={\Delta }_p{u}^{m-1}+f(m,p\ge 2)$$ by Faedo-Galerkin approximation for general domains and general nonlinearities. More precisely, we discuss the equation in an abstract setting, which allows to choose function spaces corresponding to bounded or unbounded domains $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The function $f$ can be an inhomogeneity or a nonlinearity involving terms of the form $f\left(u\right)$ or $div\left(F\right(u\left)\right)$. In the appendix, an introduction to weak differentiability...

We prove an existence result for a coupled system of the reaction-diffusion kind. The fact that no growth condition is assumed on some nonlinear terms motivates the search of a weak-renormalized solution.

We prove the existence of a renormalized solution to a class of doubly nonlinear parabolic systems.

We study the existence of solutions of the nonlinear parabolic problem $\partial u/\partial t-div\left[\right|Du-\Theta \left(u\right){|}^{p-2}(Du-\Theta \left(u\right))]+\alpha \left(u\right)=f$ in ]0,T[ × Ω, $\left(\right|Du-\Theta \left(u\right){|}^{p-2}(Du-\Theta \left(u\right)))·\eta +\gamma \left(u\right)=g$ on ]0,T[ × ∂Ω, u(0,·) = u₀ in Ω, with initial data in L¹. We use a time discretization of the continuous problem by the Euler forward scheme.

We investigate the existence of renormalized solutions for some nonlinear parabolic problems associated to equations of the form ⎧$\partial (e^{\beta u}-1)/\partial t-{div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)+div(c(x,t){\left|u\right|}^{s-1}u)+b(x,t){\left|\nabla u\right|}^r=f$ in Q = Ω×(0,T), ⎨ u(x,t) = 0 on ∂Ω ×(0,T), ⎩ $(e^{\beta u}-1)(x,0)=(e^{\beta u₀}-1)\left(x\right)$ in Ω. with s = (N+2)/(N+p) (p-1), $c(x,t)\in {\left(L^{\tau }\left(QT\right)\right)}^N$, τ = (N+p)/(p-1), r = (N(p-1) + p)/(N+2), $b(x,t)\in L^{N+2,1}\left(QT\right)$ and f ∈ L¹(Q).

We prove existence results for the Dirichlet problem associated with an elliptic semilinear second-order equation of divergence form. Degeneracy in the ellipticity condition is allowed.

We study a higher order parabolic partial differential equation that arises in the context of condensed matter physics. It is a fourth order semilinear equation which nonlinearity is the determinant of the Hessian matrix of the solution. We consider this model in a bounded domain of the real plane and study its stationary solutions both when the geometry of this domain is arbitrary and when it is the unit ball and the solution is radially symmetric. We also consider the initial-boundary value problem...