Existence results for diffusion–convection equations of nonlinear unilateral problems defined in Orlicz–Sobolev spaces

Abstract

We prove the existence result of unilateral problems associated to strongly nonlinear elliptic equations whose model, including the diffusion–convection equation, is [Formula: see text]. We study exactly the following general case [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a Leray–Lions operator having a growth not necessarily of polynomial type, the lower order term [Formula: see text] : [Formula: see text] is a Carathéodory function, for a.e. [Formula: see text] and for all [Formula: see text] satisfying only a growth condition and the right-hand side [Formula: see text] belongs to [Formula: see text].