Convergence of the Dirichlet solutions of the very fast diffusion equation

TL;DR

This paper proves the uniform convergence of Dirichlet solutions of the very fast diffusion equation on expanding domains to the global solution, establishing a link with solutions obtained via Neumann boundary approximations.

Contribution

It demonstrates the convergence of Dirichlet solutions on expanding domains to the global solution and connects this with solutions constructed through Neumann boundary approximations.

Findings

Solutions converge uniformly on compact sets as domain size increases.

The limit solution satisfies a specific integral conservation law.

The constructed solution matches the one obtained via Neumann boundary approximation.

Abstract

For any $-1<m<0$, $\mu>0$, $0\le u_0\in L^{\infty}(R)$ such that $u_0(x)\le (\mu_0 |m||x|)^{\frac{1}{m}}$ for any $|x|\ge R_0$ and some constants $R_0>1$ and $0<\mu_0\leq \mu$, and $f,\,g \in C([0,\infty))$ such that $f(t),\, g(t) \geq \mu_0$ on $[0,\infty)$ we prove that as $R\to\infty$ the solution $u^R$ of the Dirichlet problem $u_t=(u^m/m)_{xx}$ in $(-R,R)\times (0,\infty)$, $u(R,t)=(f(t)|m|R)^{1/m}$, $u(-R,t)=(g(t)|m|R)^{1/m}$ for all $t>0$, $u(x,0)=u_0(x)$ in $(-R,R)$, converges uniformly on every compact subsets of $R\times (0,T)$ to the solution of the equation $u_t=(u^m/m)_{xx}$ in $R\times (0,\infty)$, $u(x,0)=u_0(x)$ in $R$, which satisfies $\int_Ru(x,t)\,dx=\int_Ru_0dx-\int_0^t(f(s)+g(s))\,ds$ for all $0<t<T$ where $\int_0^T(f+g)\,ds=\int_Ru_0dx$. We also prove that the solution constructed is equal to the solution constructed in [Hu3] using approximation by solutions of the corresponding Neumann problem in bounded cylindrical domains.