International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 12 (1989), Issue 4, Pages 735-739
doi:10.1155/S0161171289000918
Uniqueness and stability of solutions for a type of parabolic boundary value problem
Department of Mathematics, University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Received 25 June 1986; Revised 10 October 1986
Copyright © 1989 Enrique A. Gonzalez-Velasco. 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
We consider a boundary value problem consisting of the one-dimensional
parabolic equation gut=(hux)x+q, where g, h and q are functions of x, subject to
some general boundary conditions. By developing a maximum principle for the boundary
value problem, rather than the equation, we prove the uniqueness of a nonnegative
solution that depends continuously on boundary values.