In this paper, we study the solution set of the following Dirichlet boundary equation:
−
div
a
1
x
,
u
,
D
u
+
a
0
x
,
u
=
f
x
,
u
,
D
u
in Musielak-Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, where
a
1
:
Ω
×
ℝ
×
ℝ
N
⟶
ℝ
N
,
a
0
:
Ω
×
ℝ
⟶
ℝ
, and
f
:
Ω
×
ℝ
×
ℝ
N
⟶
ℝ
are all Carathéodory functions. Both
a
1
and
f
depend on the solution
u
and its gradient
D
u
. By using a linear functional analysis method, we provide sufficient conditions which ensure that the solution set of the equation is nonempty, and it possesses a greatest element and a smallest element with respect to the ordering “≤,” which are called barrier solutions.