We investigate the local existence, uniqueness and continuous dependen
ce of a pair (u(x, 1), p(t)) satisfying u(t) = u(xx) + p(t)u(x) on (0,
1) x (0, T], u(x, 0) = u0(x), u(0, t) = f1(t), u(1, t) = f2(t) and m(
t) = integral-b(t)/0 u(x, t) dx. The problem is reduced to finding a f
ixed point of a nonlinear operator in a closed subset of a Banach spac
e.