This paper addresses analytical investigations of degenerating PDE systems for phase separation and damage processes considered on nonsmooth time-dependent domains with mixed boundary conditions for the displacement field. The evolution of the system is described by a degenerating Cahn-Hilliard equation for the concentration, a doubly nonlinear differential inclusion for the damage variable and a quasi-static balance equation for the displacement field. The analysis is performed on a time-dependent...

The existence of solutions for boundary value problems for a nonlinear discrete system involving the $p$-Laplacian is investigated. The approach is based on critical point theory.

We establish the existence of solutions for evolution equations in Hilbert spaces with anti-periodic boundary conditions. The energies associated to these evolution equations are quadratic forms. Our approach is based on application of the Schaefer fixed-point theorem combined with the continuity method.

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...

This paper is concerned with a fourth-order parabolic equation which models epitaxial growth of nanoscale thin films. Based on the regularity estimates for semigroups and the classical existence theorem of global attractors, we prove that the fourth order parabolic equation possesses a global attractor in a subspace of H², which attracts all the bounded sets of H² in the H²-norm.

In this paper, we consider the global existence, uniqueness and $L^{\infty }$ estimates of weak solutions to quasilinear parabolic equation of $m$-Laplacian type $u_t-{\mathrm{div}\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{m-2}{\nabla u)=u|u|}^{\beta -1}{\int }_{\Omega }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{d}x$ in $\Omega \times (0,\infty )$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition in $\partial \Omega$. Further, we obtain the $L^{\infty }$ estimate of the solution $u\left(t\right)$ and $\nabla u\left(t\right)$ for $t>0$ with the initial data $u_0\in L^q\left(\Omega \right)$$(q>...$

Using the asymptotic a priori estimate method, we prove the existence of pullback attractors for nonautonomous quasilinear degenerate parabolic equations involving weighted p-Laplacian operators in bounded domains, without restriction on the growth order of the polynomial type nonlinearity and on the exponential growth of the external force. The results obtained improve some recent ones for nonautonomous reaction-diffusion equations. Moreover, a relationship between pullback attractors and uniform...

We consider the first initial boundary value problem for nonautonomous quasilinear degenerate parabolic equations involving weighted p-Laplacian operators, in which the nonlinearity satisfies the polynomial condition of arbitrary order and the external force is normal. Using the asymptotic a priori estimate method, we prove the existence of uniform attractors for this problem. The results, in particular, improve some recent ones for nonautonomous p-Laplacian equations.