We show that the Porous Medium Equation and the Fast Diffusion Equation, $\dot{u}-\Delta u^m=f$, with $m\in (0,\infty )$, can be modeled as a gradient system in the Hilbert space $H^{-1}\left(\Omega \right)$, and we obtain existence and uniqueness of solutions in this framework. We deal with bounded and certain unbounded open sets $\Omega \subseteq {ℝ}^n$ and do not require any boundary regularity. Moreover, the approach is used to discuss the asymptotic behaviour and order preservation of solutions.

In this paper, we offer a new stability concept, practical Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability, for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, which consists in a restriction of Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability to bounded subsets. We derive some interesting sufficient conditions on practical Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability from a nonlinear functional analysis point of view. Our method is based on solving nonlinear equations via homotopy method together with Bihari inequality result. Then we consider nonlinear equations...