Increasing powers in a degenerate parabolic logistic equation

José Francisco Rodrigues, Hugo Tavares

Published 2012-06-26Version 1

The purpose of this paper is to study the asymptotic behavior of the positive solutions of the problem $$ \partial_t u-\Delta u=a u-b(x) u^p \text{in} \Omega\times \R^+, u(0)=u_0, u(t)|_{\partial \Omega}=0 $$ as $p\to +\infty$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and $b(x)$ is a nonnegative function. We deduce that the limiting configuration solves a parabolic obstacle problem, and afterwards we fully describe its long time behavior.