Abstract
In this paper, we consider a weakly system of fractional -evolution equations. Using the fixed-point theorem, a global-in-time existence of small data solutions to the Cauchy problem is proved for one single equation. Using these results, we prove the global existence for the system under some mixed symmetrical conditions that describe the interaction between the equations of the system.
1. Introduction
In this paper, we show the existence of the global (in time) solutions with small data to the weakly coupled system of fractional wave equations
where are real positive numbers and is the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative defined by
with the Riemann–Liouville fractional integral operator
for , and is the Euler Gamma function.
Such mathematical models have promising applications in engineering and in other physical sciences, as well as in numerical simulations of some fractional nonlinear viscoelastic flow problems, and they impact the bioconvection on the free stream flow of a pseudoplastic nanofluid past a rotating cone.
At the outset, since the fractional equation interpolates the heat equation for and the wave equation for we will provide briefly some previous results of the wave equations and heat equation.
On the one hand, we consider the Cauchy problem for the semi-linear heat equation
Fujita in [1] proved that the exponent is critical for the classical heat model, which means that we have the global (in time) existence of small data solutions for , and the blow up if we have the inverse In [2,3], the authors proved the blow-up for the critical case
On the other hand, let us consider the Cauchy problem for the semi-linear wave equation
where the authors in [4] proved for that the critical exponent is defined as a positive root of the quadratic equation
The defined exponent by the last equation is called the Strauss exponent and denoted by for further considerations, which means that we have the global (in time) existence of small data weak solutions for the above , whereas the local (in time) existence for and large data can be only expected. In [5,6], the author proved in that the Strauss exponent is critical. After that, the global existence for was treated in [7] and for in [8,9]. The nonexistence of solutions for data compactly supported was studied in [10] for For , the authors proved some optimal results in [11] for For , a nonexistence result with small data proved in [12] for .
In 2017, D’Abbicco et al. [13] considered the semi-linear fractional wave equation
where with the fractional Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative. They proved the critical exponent for the global existence of a small data solution in a low space dimension. The Caputo fractional order and the existence of non-null Cauchy data was studied in [14].
In [15], the authors proved the global (in time) existence of small data solutions to semi-linear fraction -evolution equations with mass or power nonlinearity. A similar problem was treated in [16] by considering a memory term instead of the power nonlinearity.
In the first part of our main results, we show the global existence of a small data solution to the fractional Riemann–Liouville order to the semi-linear -evolution problem (7).
For the systems, let us first consider the weakly coupled system of damped wave equations semi-linear heat equations
where and . The authors of [17] showed that the exponents p and q satisfying
are critical, which means that the solutions exist globally for and blow-up for the inverse case. For more details about the system of damped wave equations semi-linear heat equations, the reader can also see [18,19,20,21].
Some papers are considered for the weakly coupled systems of semilinear classical damped wave equations with power non-linearities. The problem we have in mind is
where In 2007, Sun and Wang proved in [22] that if
for or then the solution exists globally in time for small initial data, while, if then every solution having positive average value does not exist globally. In [23], the authors generalized the previous results to the case where and improved the time decay estimates for In 2014, using the weighted energy method, Nishihara and Wakasugi proved, in [24], the critical exponent for any space dimensions. Considering the time-dependent dissipation terms, the authors of [25,26,27] proved the global (in time) existence of small data solutions under a plan condition, which presents the interplay between the exponents of power nonlinearities.
In our paper, we consider first the single equation from system (1) where we proved the global existence for some range of the exponent p under conditions related to the regularity of the data and the dimension. After that, we apply the results of the single equation to study the weakly coupled systems (1). We proved the global existence for the system with a loss of decay if one of the exponents of power nonlinearities did not satisfy the condition of the single equation.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we will show our main results of global (in time) existence with examples. Moreover, we mention some remarks of the interpolated cases of wave and heat equations. Next, in Section 3, we prove the existence of solution by applying Banach’s fixed point. Appendix A concludes the paper.
2. Main Results
2.1. Single Equation of Fractional Integral Equation
In this section, we will show our main results where we start with the global (in time) existence of solutions to the single equation of the Cauchy problem. Using the formal representation of the solution to our equation, we obtain the estimates of the solutions, and finally we prove the existence using fixed-point theorem explained in the Appendix A.
where
Theorem 1.
Let , and the data are supposed to belong to The following conditions are satisfied for the exponent p:
and
Then, a small constant ϵ exists such that, if then there is a uniquely determined globally (in time) energy solution to (7) in
Furthermore, the solution satisfies the estimates:
where
The new type of date has a strong influence in the representation of the solution of (1) after [28], which leads to a quite different admissible range of the exponent p compared with the classical equations presented in [14].
Remark 1.
If , then the admissible range for the global (in time) existence corresponds with a Fujita like exponent On the contrary for , we obtain a gap of continuity with respect to the Strauss exponent, which appeared in previous results as a critical exponent for the classical wave equation.
Remark 2.
Example 1.
We consider a concrete example by giving values to the parameters appearing in the theorem. Let us consider in the following model:
Then, using Theorem 1, the admissible range for the global existence is
2.2. Weakly Coupled System of Fractional Integral Equations
In this section, we apply the results of the previous theorem to study systems of weakly coupled fractional -evolution equations.
Theorem 2.
Let , and the data is supposed to belong to The following conditions are satisfied for the exponent p and q:
and
Then, a small constant ϵ exists such that, if then there is a uniquely determined globally (in time) energy solution to (1) in
Furthermore, the solution satisfies the estimates:
where and
Remark 3.
If we take in Theorem 2 the condition , then we cannot feel any interplay between the equations of the system since it will behave as a single equation.
Remark 4.
If we consider then, after using Proposition A1, we obtain a new decay generated by the log term appearing in the estimate of u, exactly, .
Example 2.
Let us consider in and the parameter of the fractional derivative of the first equation and the second Then, with the Cauchy condition the model, we obtain
Applying Theorem 2, we obtain the global (in time) existence of the solution for and .
Remark 5.
The reader can apply the last theorem for several examples. Giving values to some parameters such as the dimension or the order of the fractional derivative, we obtain the mixed condition that leads to the global existence.
3. Philosophy of Our Approach
In this section, we will prove results for the Cauchy problems (1) and (7). Our main interest is to prove the global (in time) existence of small data solutions, which means the global existence after the perturbation of the null Cauchy condition . Such results imply immediate stability results for the zero solution.
3.1. Proof of Theorem 1
In this section, we deal with the following single equation:
We define the norm of the solution space , which we will propose in all of the proofs of the above theorems by
We introduce the operator N by
where is a Sobolev solution to the Cauchy problem
and is a Sobolev solution to the Cauchy problem
Using Fourier analysis together with Theorem A1 from Appendix A, we can show that the solutions of the previous problems can be presented by as follows:
and
Following Proposition A2, our aim is to prove the following inequalities:
After proving these both inequalities, we apply Banach’s fixed-point theorem. In this way, we obtain the local (in time) existence of large data Sobolev solutions and the global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions as well.
To prove inequality (19) we have to derive the estimate of in order to use Young’s inequality. Using the scaling property, we obtain
Indeed, after change of variable we obtain
Using the last equality, we obtain
The change of variable leads to
which completes the proof of 21.
Then, we restrict ourselves to the estimates of . After applying Theorem A2 from the Appendix A, we obtain
which leads to
where
First, we consider . Similarly to (21), we have
Then,
Then,
Using the last estimate together with (A5) from Remark A1, one can obtain the following estimate from Lemma 2.1 in [14] for :
which satisfied (9).
Replacing last estimates in the definition of the norm of solution space (14) leads to the desired estimate (19).
Using the definition of solution space from (14), we obtain
Using Proposition A1, we obtain
provided that and , which are equivalent to (8) and (9), respectively.
Replacing the last estimates in the norm of solution space, we obtain (20), which complete, together with (19), the proof of the first inequality (17).
We control all norms appearing in . These are the norms and .
Similarly to (26), we have
Hölder’s inequality implies
Using the norm of the solution space , we obtain
Then, the proof of the second condition and the theorem is completed.
3.2. Proof of Theorem 2
We define the norm of the solution space by
where
Then, we introduce the operator N by
where
If we consider the results Proposition A3, then our aim is to prove the following inequalities, which imply, among other things, the global existence of small data solutions:
The last estimates, together with the definition of the norm in (31), lead to
Then, we complete the proof by showing the inequality
For , we have
and
Using the definition of solution space from (31), we obtain
For , we have
and
Using the norm of the solution space, we obtain
and
Using the last estimates, one may finally conclude, similarly to (38) to (41), the following estimates:
In this way, we can conclude the proof of the last condition (35) and the theorem.
4. Concluding Remarks
- We need to prove the blow-up for the system an interaction between the exponents of both equations. However, the method of scaling is not suitable to prove the blow-up result for the system since we have no interactions between the exponents. Moreover, the influence of each equation to the other one generated a condition presented by several parameters, fractional derivatives, dimensions, and others. For this reason, we will devote the blow-up problem in a forthcoming project using another approach.
- The applications of our results in real world problems and phenomena can be investigated after mathematical modeling by choosing the suitable parameters involved in our problem, such as dimension, and by taking the experimental values into consideration.
Funding
This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency
for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia (Project No.
GRANT3371).
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia (Project No. GRANT3371).
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares that there is no competing interest.
Appendix A
Theorem A1.
Let Then, the unique solution solution to
is given by
where are the Mittag–Leffler functions defined by
For the proof, see [28].
Theorem A2.
Let and with . Then, for the real number , the following holds:
where
and
Remark A1.
The integral is uniformly bounded if
For the proof, see [29].
Proposition A1.
Let and . Then,
The reader can find the proof of Proposition A1 in [14].
Proposition A2.
The operator N maps into itself and has one and only one fixed point if the following inequalities hold:
where for and for all .
For the proof, see [30].
Proposition A3.
Let us suppose that for any , the mapping N satisfies the following estimates:
where for and for all
Then, N maps into itself and has one and only one fixed point .
For the proof, see [26].
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