Vector-valued heat equations and networks with coupled dynamic boundary conditions

Abstract

Motivated by diffusion processes on metric graphs and ramified spaces, we consider an abstract setting for interface problems with coupled dynamic boundary conditions belonging to a quite general class. Beside well posedness, we discuss positivity, $L^\infty$-contractivity and further invariance properties. We show that the parabolic problem with dynamic boundary conditions enjoys these properties if and only if its counterpart with time-independent boundary conditions does also. Furthermore, we prove continuous dependence of the solution to the parabolic problem on the boundary conditions in the considered class.