Anisotropic parabolic-elliptic systems with degenerate thermal conductivity

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the existence and regularity of a capacity solution for a coupled nonlinear anisotropic parabolic-elliptic system, where the elliptic component of the parabolic equation involves thermal conductivities that satisfy for all . We work with anisotropic Sobolev spaces and use Schauder's fixed-point theorem to find weak solutions to approximate problems. In addition, we validate the convergence of a subsequence of approximate solutions to a capacity solution.