 Dirichlet energy dissipation for the heat equation

For a real smooth solution $w_t=\Delta w$ on a bounded regular domain with $w_t=0$ on its boundary, differentiation and Green's first identity yieldThe boundary term is zero because the boundary values are fixed in time, not because the normal derivative vanishes. Equality at a particular time is equivalent to $\Delta w=0$ throughout the domain at that time.