A qualitative study of (p,q) Singular parabolic equations: local existence, Sobolev regularity and asymptotic behaviour

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the existence, regularity, stabilization and blow up results of weak solution to the following parabolic $(p,q)$-singular equation: \begin{equation*} (P_t)\; \left\{\begin{array}{rllll} u_t-\Delta_{p}u -\Delta_{q}u & = \vth \; u^{-\de}+ f(x,u), \; u>0 \text{ in } \Om\times (0,T), \\ u&=0 \quad \text{ on } \pa\Om\times (0,T), u(x,0)&= u_0(x) \; \text{ in }\Om, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $\Om$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $C^2$ boundary $\pa\Om$, $1<q<p< \infty$, $0<\de, T>0$, $N\ge 2$ and $\vth>0$ is a parameter. Moreover, we assume that $f:\Om\times [0,\infty) \to \mb R$ is a bounded below Carath\'eodory function, locally Lipschitz with respect to the second variable uniformly in $x\in\Om$ and $u_0\in L^\infty(\Om)\cap W^{1,p}_0(\Om)$. We distinguish the cases as $q$-subhomogeneous and $q$-superhomogeneous depending on the growth of $f$ (hereafter we will drop the term $q$). In the subhomogeneous case, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the weak solution to problem $(P_t)$ for $\de<2+1/(p-1)$. For this, we first study the stationary problems corresponding to $(P_t)$ by using the method of sub and super solutions and subsequently employing implicit Euler method, we obtain the existence of a solution to $(P_t)$. Furthermore, in this case, we prove the stabilization result, that is, the solution $u(t)$ of $(P_t)$ converges to $u_\infty$, the unique solution to the stationary problem, in $L^\infty(\Om)$ as $t\ra\infty$. For the superhomogeneous case, we prove the local existence theorem by taking help of nonlinear semigroup theory. Subsequently, we prove finite time blow up of solution to problem $(P_t)$ for small parameter $\vartheta>0$ in the case $\de\leq 1$ and for all $\vth>0$ in the case $\de>1$.