Obstacle problem for a class of parabolic equations of generalized $p$-Laplacian type

Casimir Lindfors

Published 2016-04-11Version 1

We study nonlinear parabolic PDEs with Orlicz-type growth conditions. The main result gives the existence of a unique solution to the obstacle problem related to these equations. To achieve this we show the boundedness of weak solutions and that a uniformly bounded sequence of weak supersolutions converges to a weak supersolution. Moreover, we prove that if the obstacle is continuous, so is the solution.