ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS TO THE HEAT EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability and asymptotic behavior of the time-dependent solutions to a linear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition in relation to their corresponding steady state solutions. Then, the above results are extended to a semilinear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition by analyzing the corresponding eigenvalue problem and using the method of upper and lower solutions.