Qualitative properties of solutions of degenerate parabolic equations via energy approaches

We consider several problems for degenerate parabolic equations exhibiting nonlinearities of various kinds. For example the equations may contain superlinear sources, causing blow up of the solutions, or damping terms; the principal part of the operator is also nonlinear. We mention as unifying features the fact that the spatial domains have non-compact boundary, and the technical approach which is based on energy methods and a priori estimates. The issues investigated include existence under optimal assumptions on the data, asymptotic behavior of solutions, existence or non-existence of global in time solutions.