\documentclass[reqno]{amsart} \usepackage{hyperref} \AtBeginDocument{{\noindent\small \emph{Electronic Journal of Differential Equations}, Vol. 2008(2008), No. 17, pp. 1--10.\newline ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu \newline ftp ejde.math.txstate.edu (login: ftp)} \thanks{\copyright 2008 Texas State University - San Marcos.} \vspace{9mm}} \begin{document} \title[\hfilneg EJDE-2008/17\hfil Continuous dependence of solutions] {Continuous dependence of solutions to mixed boundary value problems for a parabolic equation} \author[M. Z. Djibibe, K. Tcharie, N. I. Yurchuk\hfil EJDE-2008/17\hfilneg] {Moussa Zakari Djibibe, Kokou Tcharie, Nikolay Iossifovich Yurchuk } % in alphabetical order \address{Moussa Zakari Djibibe\newline University of Lom\'e - Togo\\ Department of Mathematics \\ PO Box 1515 Lom\'e, Togo} \email{mdjibibe@tg.refer.org\; zakari.djibibe@gmail.com\; tel +228 924 45 21} \address{Kokou Tcharie \newline University of Lom\'e - Togo\\ Department of Mathematics\\ PO Box 1515 Lom\'e, Togo} \email{tkokou@yahoo.fr} \address{Nikolay Iossifovich Yurchuk \newline Dept. of Mechanics and Mathematics, Belarussian State University, 220050, Minsk, Belarus} \email{yurchuk@bsu.by} \thanks{Submitted October 16, 2007. Published February 5, 2008.} \subjclass[2000]{35K20, 35K25, 35K30} \keywords{Priori estimate; mixed problem; continuous dependence; \hfill\break\indent boundary conditions} \begin{abstract} We prove the continuous dependence, upon the data, of solutions to second-order parabolic equations. We study two boundary-value problems: One has a nonlocal (integral) condition and the another has a local boundary condition. The proofs are based on a priori estimate for the difference of solutions. \end{abstract} \maketitle \numberwithin{equation}{section} \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma} \newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary} %\allowdisplaybreaks \section{Introduction} This paper is devoted to the proof of the continuous dependence, upon the data, of generalized solutions of a second order parabolic equation. The boundary conditions are of mixed type. This article contributes to the development of the a priori estimates method for solving such problems. The questions related to these problems are so miscellaneous that the elaboration of a general theory is still premature. Therefore, the investigation of these problems requires at every time a separate study. The importance of problems with integral condition has been pointed out by Samarskii \cite{ref24}. Mathematical modelling by evolution problems with a nonlocal constraint of the form ${\frac{1}{1 -\alpha}\int_{\alpha}^1 u(x, t)\,dx = E(t)}$ is encountered in heat transmission theory, thermoelasticity, chemical engineering, underground water flow, and plasma physic. See for instance Benouar-Yurchuk \cite{ref1}, Benouar-Bouziani \cite{ref2}-\cite{ref3}, Bouziani \cite{ref4}-\cite{ref7}, Cannon et al \cite{ref14}-\cite{ref16}, Ionkin \cite{ref18}-\cite{ref19}, Kamynin \cite{ref20} and Yurchuk \cite{ref26}-\cite{ref28}. Mixed problems with nonlocal boundary conditions or with nonlocal initial conditions were studied in Bouziani \cite{ref7}-\cite{ref9}, Byszewski et al \cite{ref11}-\cite{ref13}, Gasymov \cite{ref17}, Ionkin \cite{ref18}-\cite{ref19}, Lazhar \cite{ref22}, Mouravey-Philipovski \cite{ref23} and Said-Nadia \cite{ref25}. The results and the method used here are a further elaboration of those in \cite{ref1}. We should mention here that the presence of integral term in the boundary condition can greatly complicate the application of standard functional and numerical techniques. This work can be considered as a continuation of the results in \cite{ref7}, \cite{ref26} and \cite{ref28}. The remainder of the paper is divided into four section. In Section 2, we give the statement of the problem. Then in Section 3, we establish a priori estimate. Finally, in section 4, we show the continuous dependence of a solution upon the data. \section{Statement of the problem} In the rectangle $G = \{(x,t) : 0