Abstract
This paper investigates the singular Dirichlet problem
–𝑢″ = 𝑓(𝑡, 𝑢, 𝑢′), 𝑢(0) = 0, 𝑢(𝑇) = 0,
where 𝑓 satisfies the Carathéodory conditions on the set and .
The function 𝑓(𝑡, 𝑥, 𝑦) can have time singularities at 𝑡 = 0 and 𝑡 = 𝑇 and space singularities at 𝑥 = 0 and 𝑦 = 0. The existence principle for the above problem is given and its application is presented here. The paper provides conditions which guarantee the existence of a solution which is positive on (0; T) and which has the absolutely continuous first derivative on [0, 𝑇].