Boundary Value Problems
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 814947, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/814947
Research Article

On a Mixed Nonlinear One Point Boundary Value Problem for an Integrodifferential Equation

Said Mesloub

Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Received 31 August 2007; Accepted 5 February 2008

Academic Editor: Martin Schechter

Copyright © 2008 Said Mesloub. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of a mixed problem for a nonlinear parabolic integro-differential equation which mainly arise from a one dimensional quasistatic contact problem. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions in a weighted Sobolev space. Proofs are based on some a priori estimates and on the Schauder fixed point theorem. we also give a result which helps to establish the regularity of a solution.