TY - JOUR ID - ElOuardy2024 LB - ElOuardy2024 AU - El Ouardy, Mounim AU - El Hadfi, Youssef AU - Sbai, Abdelaaziz TI - Degenerate singular parabolic problems with natural growth ST - Degenerate singular parabolic problems with natural growth JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2024 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 471 EP - 503 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2024.44.4.471 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2024.44.4.471 AB - In this paper, we study the existence and regularity results for nonlinear singular parabolic problems with a natural growth gradient term \[\begin{cases}\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\operatorname{div}((a(x,t)+u^{q})|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)+d(x,t)\frac{|\nabla u|^{p}}{u^{\gamma}}=f & \text{ in } Q,\\ u(x,t)=0 & \text{ on } \Gamma, \\ u(x,t=0)=u_{0}(x) & \text{ in } \Omega, \end{cases}\] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^{N}\), \(N\gt 2\), \(Q\) is the cylinder \(\Omega \times (0,T)\), \(T\gt 0\), \(\Gamma\) the lateral surface \(\partial \Omega \times (0,T)\), \(2\leq p\lt N\), \(a(x,t)\) and \(b(x,t)\) are positive measurable bounded functions, \(q\geq 0\), \(0\leq\gamma\lt 1\), and \(f\) non-negative function belongs to the Lebesgue space \(L^{m}(Q)\) with \(m\gt 1\), and \(u_{0}\in L^{\infty}(\Omega)\) such that \[\forall\omega\subset\subset\Omega\, \exists D_{\omega}\gt 0:\, u_{0}\geq D_{\omega}\text{ in }\omega.\] More precisely, we study the interaction between the term \(u^{q}\) (\(q>0\)) and the singular lower order term \(d(x,t)|\nabla u|^{p}u^{-\gamma}\) (\(0\lt\gamma\lt 1\)) in order to get a solution to the above problem. The regularizing effect of the term \(u^q\) on the regularity of the solution and its gradient is also analyzed. KW - degenerate parabolic equations KW - singular parabolic equations KW - natural growth term SN - 1232-9274 ER -