A class of functional inequalities and their applications to fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equations
Jian‐Guo Liu, Xiangsheng Xu · Communications in Mathematical Sciences · 2020
We study a class of fourth order nonlinear parabolic equations which include the thin-film equation and the quantum drift-diffusion model as special cases. We investigate these equations by first developing functional inequalities of the type $ \int_\Omega u^{2\gamma-\alpha-\beta}\Delta u^\alpha\Delta u^\beta dx \geq c\int_\Omega|\Delta u^\gamma |^2dx $, which seem to be of interest on their own right.