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Long-time behaviour of solutions to an evolution PDE with nonstandard growth

  • Hélène Frankowska ORCID logo and Gioconda Moscariello ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Abstract

In this paper, we prove time estimates for solutions to a general nonhomogeneous parabolic problem whose operator satisfies nonstandard growth conditions. We also study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to an anisotropic problem.

MSC 2010: 35K51; 35K59; 35B40

Communicated by Ugo Gianazza


Award Identifier / Grant number: FA9550-18-1-0254

Funding statement: G. Moscariello is grateful to CNRS for supporting her visit to IMJ-PRG. She was partially supported by Ministry of Education, University and Research PRIN 2017 and she is member of Gruppo Nazionale per l’Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA) of INdAM. H. Frankowska is partially supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award number FA9550-18-1-0254.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the referee for the constructive comments that helped to improve the presentation of the results.

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Received: 2019-07-23
Revised: 2019-12-05
Accepted: 2020-03-10
Published Online: 2020-04-15
Published in Print: 2022-04-01

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