Strongly $p$-parabolic systems

Optimal Control of a Class of Strongly Nonlinear Parabolic Systems*

This paper considers some typical optimal control problems for a class of strongly nonlinear parabolic systems. After some necessary preparation, it is shown that the family of admissible trajectories is a weakly closed and weakly sequentially compact subset of a reflexive Banach space and that the set of attainable states at any given time is a weakly compact subset of a Hilbert space. Using t...

Strongly Degenerate Parabolic-Hyperbolic Systems Modeling Polydisperse Sedimentation with Compression

We show how existing models for the sedimentation of monodisperse flocculated suspensions and of polydisperse suspensions of rigid spheres differing in size can be combined to yield a new theory of the sedimentation processes of polydisperse suspensions forming compressible sediments (“sedimentation with compression” or “sedimentation-consolidation process”). For N solid particle species, this ...

Convergence of Diffusive Bgk Approximations for Nonlinear Strongly Parabolic Systems

Strongly Essential Flows on Irreducible Parabolic Geometries

We study the local geometry of irreducible parabolic geometries admitting strongly essential flows; these are flows by local automorphisms with higher-order fixed points. We prove several new rigidity results, and recover some old ones for projective and conformal structures, which show that in many cases the existence of a strongly essential flow implies local flatness of the geometry on an op...

HIGHER INTEGRABILITY FOR PARABOLIC SYSTEMS OF p-LAPLACIAN TYPE

it is known that solutions locally belong to a slightly higher Sobolev space than assumed a priori. This self-improving property was first observed by Elcrat and Meyers in [ME] (see also [Gi] and [Str]). Their argument is based on reverse Hölder inequalities and a modification of Gehring’s lemma [Ge], which originally was developed to study the higher integrability of the Jacobian of a quasicon...