Stella Vernier-Piro

Explicit decay bounds in some quasilinear one-dimensional parabolic problems

In the first part of this paper we study a thermal diffusion process described by a semilinear parabolic problem and we introduce a new maximum principle in order to obtain explicit decay bounds for the temperature and its gradient. In the second part we find analogous bounds for the so-called ground water equation in a more general form.

Sharp Upper and Lower Solutions in Some Parabolic Problems

ABSTRACT In this paper we construct upper and lower solutions for a class of parabolic initial-boundary value problems in terms of the solution of the St-Venant problem and first eigenvalue problem. These bounds are sharp in the sense that they coincide with the exact solution in particular situations.