Approximate periodic solutions of a nonlinear parabolic system and an identification problem

This work continues our study in [L. Lei, Identification of parameters through the approximate periodic solutions of a linear parabolic system, preprint, 2005] on the identification problem for the coefficients for the lower order terms in a parabolic system, through its approximate periodic solutions. Different from the work in [L. Lei, Identification of parameters through the approximate periodic solutions of a linear parabolic system, preprint, 2005], our system now is nonlinear and the coefficients to be detected are from the first order term. From the application point of view, we now try to determine the diffusion coefficients for the system by the observation over a subregion of the physical domain. The existence and uniqueness problem of the approximate periodic solutions is studied in the first part of the paper.