I'm looking for general existence of a PDE of the form $$ f: U \times [0, \delta) \to \mathbb{R}$$ $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}(p,t) = F(f(p,t))$$ where $f(p,0)$ is prescribed and $F$ is non-linear but it is known that $$|F(f) - F(g)| \leq K ||f - g||_{C^1}$$ I'm interested in how one would prove short time existence, and also if I can allow for $|F(f) - F(g)| \leq K ||f - g||_{C^k}$ with $k \geq 2$ and still get the same existence. I'm struggling to find analogies to previous existence theorems, e.g. those for parabolic systems or using Picard-iterates (which would require a different lipschitz bound) My PDE is similar in spirit to the following: solve $\Delta u = 0$ on $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ a smooth convex set with boundary and $u \Big|_{\partial \Omega} = f$ with $f: \partial \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$. Then $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}(p) = \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}(p) $$