This work is concerned with the inverse problem of determining initial value of the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear diffusion process with an additional condition on free boundary. Considering the flow of water through a homogeneous isotropic rigid porous medium, we have such desire: for every given positive constants $K$ and $T_0$, to decide the initial value $u_0$ such that the solution $u(x,t)$ satisfies ${sup}_{x\in H_u\left(T_0\right)}\left|x\right|\ge K$, where $H_u\left(T_0\right)=\{x\in {ℝ}^N:u(x,T_0)>0\}$. In this paper, we first establish a priori estimate $u_t\ge C\left(t\right)u$ and a more precise Poincaré type inequality...

Sufficient conditions are obtained so that a weak subsolution of $(0.1)$, bounded from above on the parabolic boundary of the cylinder $Q$, turns out to be bounded from above in $Q$.

We consider the second order parabolic partial differential equation    ${\sum }_{i,j=1}^n{a}_{ij}(x,t)u_{x_i{x}_j}+{\sum }_{i=1}^n{b}_i(x,t)u_{x_i}+c(x,t)u-u_t=0$. Sufficient conditions are given under which every solution of the above equation must decay or tend to infinity as |x|→ ∞. A sufficient condition is also given under which every solution of a system of the form    $L^{\alpha }\left[u^{\alpha }\right]+{\sum }_{\beta =1}^N{c}^{\alpha \beta }(x,t)u^{\beta }=f^{\alpha }(x,t)$, where    $L^{\alpha }\left[u\right]\equiv {\sum }_{i,j=1}^n{a}_{ij}^{\alpha }(x,t)u_{x_i{x}_j}+{\sum }_{i=1}^n{b}_i^{\alpha }(x,t)u_{x_i}-u_t$, must decay as t → ∞.

We consider one-dimensional parabolic free boundary value problem with a nonlocal (integro-differential) condition on the free boundary. Results on Cm-smoothness of the free boundary are obtained. In particular, a necessary and sufficient condition for infinite differentiability of the free boundary is given.

In this paper we consider a class of distributed parameter systems (partial differential equations) determined by strongly nonlinear operator valued measures in the setting of the Gelfand triple V ↪ H ↪ V* with continuous and dense embeddings where H is a separable Hilbert space and V is a reflexive Banach space with dual V*. The system is given by dx + A(dt,x) = f(t,x)γ(dt) + B(t)u(dt), x(0) = ξ, t ∈ I ≡ [0,T] where A is a strongly nonlinear operator valued measure...

The oscillation of the solutions of linear parabolic differential equations with deviating arguments are studied and sufficient conditions that all solutions of boundary value problems are oscillatory in a cylindrical domain are given.