We prove the existence and uniqueness of a renormalized solution for a class of nonlinear parabolic equations with no growth assumption on the nonlinearities.

We study the problem ∂b(x,u)/∂t - div(a(x,t,u,Du)) + H(x,t,u,Du) = μ in Q = Ω×(0,T), ${b(x,u)|}_{t=0}=b(x,u₀)$ in Ω, u = 0 in ∂Ω × (0,T). The main contribution of our work is to prove the existence of a renormalized solution without the sign condition or the coercivity condition on H(x,t,u,Du). The critical growth condition on H is only with respect to Du and not with respect to u. The datum μ is assumed to be in $L¹\left(Q\right)+L^{p^{\text{'}}}(0,T;W^{-1,p^{\text{'}}}\left(\Omega \right))$ and b(x,u₀) ∈ L¹(Ω).

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).