On gradient estimates and other qualitative properties of solutions of nonlinear non autonomous parabolic systems

Abstract

We prove several uniform L(1)-estimates on solutions of a general class of one-dimensional parabolic systems, mainly coupled in the diffusion term, which, in fact, can be of degenerate type. They are uniform in the sense that they don't depend on the coefficients, nor on the size of the spatial domain. The estimates concern the own Solution or/and its spatial gradient. This paper extends some previous results by the authors to the case of nonautonomous coefficients and possibly non homogeneous boundary conditions. Moreover, an application to the asymptotic decay of the L(1)-norm of solutions, as t -> +infinity, is also given.