Well posedness and the global attractor of some quasi-linear parabolic equations with nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions

Abstract

We consider a quasi-linear parabolic equation with nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions occurring as generalizations of semilinear reaction-diffusion equations with dynamic boundary conditions and various other phase-field models, such as the isothermal Allen-Cahn equation with dynamic boundary conditions. We thus formulate a class of initial and boundary-value problems whose global existence and uniqueness is proven by means of an appropriate Faedo-Galerkin approximation scheme developed for problems with dynamic boundary conditions. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solutions within the theory of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. In particular, we demonstrate the existence of the global attractor.