Degenerate diffusion with a drift potential: a viscosity solutions approach
Analysis of PDEs
2009-10-20 v2
Abstract
We introduce a notion of viscosity solutions for a nonlinear degenerate diffusion equation with a drift potential. We show that our notion of solutions coincide with the weak solutions defined via integration by parts. As an application of the viscosity solutions theory, we show that the free boundary uniformly converges to the equilibrium as time grows. In the case of a convex potential, an exponential rate of free boundary convergence is obtained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.3432,
title = {Degenerate diffusion with a drift potential: a viscosity solutions approach},
author = {I. C. Kim and H. K. Lei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3432},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages, 3 figures