Abstract
In this paper the quasi-linear second-order parabolic systems of reaction-diffusion type in an unbounded domain are considered. Our aim is to study the long-time behavior of parabolic systems for which the nonlinearity depends explicitly on the gradient of the unknown functions. To this end we give a systematic study of given parabolic systems and their attractors in weighted Sobolev spaces. Dependence of the Hausdorff dimension of attractors on the weight of the Sobolev spaces is considered. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.