A Family of Global Attractors for the Generalized Kirchhoff-Beam Equations ()
1. Introduction
In this paper, we study the initial boundary value problem of the following generalized Beam-Kirchhoff equation:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
is a positive integer,
is a bounded region in
with a smooth boundary,
denoted by the boundary,
is the external force term.
is the strongly damped term,
is the beam term.
is the kichhoff term,
is the nonlinear source term.
The Kirchhoff type equation was first proposed by Kirchhoff as an existence of the nonlinear wave equation for free vibration of elastic strings. The equation has great application in many fields, such as non-Newtonian mechanics, cosmology and astrophysics, plasma problems and elasticity theory, so the study of this kind of equations has a profound practical significance.
In addition, attractor is the key subject of infinite dimensional dynamic system research.
The long-term dynamic characteristics of a system are always dominated by its own attractors, and the shape of the attractors can directly determine the type of dynamic characteristics. Therefore, the attractors are an important index to describe the progressive behavior of the dynamic system at
. Global attractor is the main research object of autonomous system. In the past 20 or 30 years, autonomous system has been widely studied, and the results have been very mature both in basic theory and practical application [1] [2] [3] .
In 1883, Kirchhoff [4] first proposed the wave equation that changes with time
where, h represents the cross-sectional area of the stretched string, E is the Young coefficient, L represents the length of the string,
represents the initial axial tension,
represents the mass density of the string, and
is the transverse displacement in space x and time coordinates t. The expansion model of the equation in higher dimensional space is as follows:
where, u denotes the vibration displacement of the string,
denotes the external force,
. The characteristic of this equation is that it contains non-local terms Kirchhoff terms, so it is called a Kirchhoff-type equation.
E. hoenriques, D. Borito and J. Hoale studied the initial boundary value problem of the following nonlinear Kirchhoff equation in [5] :
the only stable solution of the equation is obtained by Galerkin’s method.
Lin Chen, Wei, Wang and Guoguang Lin [6] studied the initial boundary value problems of the following class of higher-order Kirchhoff equations:
.
They prove the existence of bounded absorption sets and global solutions by a prior estimation and Glerkin’s method, and prove the existence of the family of global attractors by using the method of uniform compactness. Then they estimate the upper bounds of Housdorff dimension and fractal dimension.
Yuhuai Liao, Guoguang Lin, Jie Liu [7] studied the initial boundary value problem of the Beam-Kirchhoff equation in order to study the global stability of the model
The existence of the family of global attractors and upper bounds of Housdorff dimension and fractal dimension are proved by proper hypothesis of nonlinear terms.
More results on the existence of attractors in mathematical and physical models can be seen in detail [8] - [15] .
On the basis of previous studies, the existence of global solutions and the family of global attractors for Beam-Kirchhoff equations under boundary conditions will be studied.
For illustrative purposes, the following Spaces and symbols are defined:
;
;
And assume
,
that the following conditions are met:
(A)
where,
is the positive constants,
;
(B)
where,
is the positive constants.
.
is a sufficiently large constant.
2. Existence of a Family of Global Attractors
In this part, the existence of bounded absorption set is proved by prior estimation, then the existence and uniqueness of global solution is proved by Galerkin’s method, and finally the compactibility of global solution in phase space is verified by Soboleve compact embedding, thus the existence of a family of global attractors is proved.
Lemma 1. Assumes that (A), (B) is true,
,
,
, and is satisfied
then the global smooth solution of the initial boundary value problem (1) - (3) is
and
.
So there is a non-negative real number
and
(5)
Proof. Due to
, we take the inner product of both sides of Equation (1) with v. We can get
(6)
By using the Holder’s inequality, the Young’s Inequality and the Poincare’s Inequality and conditions (A), (B), each item in (6) is processed successively
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
Therefore:
(13)
There are
(14)
It’s given by the Gronwall’s inequality
(15)
Let
, Then we can get
(16)
Such that there are non-negative real numbers
,
(17)
Lemma 1 is proved.
Lemma 2. Assumes that (A), (B) is true,
,
,
, and is satisfied
,
,
,
,
then the global smooth solution of the initial boundary value problem (1) - (3) is
and
.
So there is a non-negative real number
and
(18)
Proof. Due to
, take the inner product of both sides of the Equation (1) with
,
(19)
By using Holder’s inequality, the Young’s Inequality and the Poincare’s Inequality and conditions (A), (B), the terms in (19) are obtained
(20)
(21)
(22)
(23)
(24)
(25)
All kinds of comprehensive can be written as
(26)
Available
(27)
And that is given by Gronwall’s inequality
(28)
Let
, then
(29)
So there is a non-negative real number
and
that make
(30)
Lemma 2 is proved.
Theorem 3. (Existence and uniqueness of solutions) Assumes that (A), (B) is true,
,
, then the initial boundary value problem (1) - (3) has an unique smooth solution
,
.
Proof. Galerkin’s finite element method is used to prove the existence of global solution.
The first step is to construct the approximate solution
Let
.
Take the sequence
,
is linearly independent. Linear combinations of
are dense in
. The approximate solution is
in problem (1).
Where
is determined by the following conditions
(31)
The nonlinear system of ordinary differential Equations (31) satisfies the initial condition
When
,
in
. We know from the basic theory of ordinary differentiation that approximate solutions exist on
.
The second step is prior estimation
Multiply both ends of Equation (31) by
, and sum over j to get
(32)
A prior estimate of the solution in
is obtained from lemma 1:
And that’s given by lemma 2:
so
is bounded in
.
The third step is limit process
Danford-Pttes theorem tells us that space
is conjugate to
. Choosing subcolumn
from the sequence
causes
to converge weakly * in
.
It is known from Rellich-Kohπ paiiiob theorem that
compact embedded in
, and
converges strongly almost everywhere in
.
In (31) let
and take the limit, for fixed j and
(33)
Weakly * converges in
.
converges weakly * in
.
converges weakly * in
.
In the space
,
weakly converges to
,
weakly converges to
, and there is
,
So
converges weakly * in
.
converges weakly * in
.
Derivable
(34)
Therefore, the existence of the weak solution of problems (1) - (3) is obtained. The existence is proved, and the uniqueness of the solution below is obtained.
Let
be two solutions to the problem, and let
have
,
(35)
• We take the inner product of
in both sides of this equation,
(36)
• Each item is processed successively
(37)
(38)
(39)
From lemma 1, lemma 2 and differential mean value theorem and Young’s inequality
(40)
where
.
Similarly,
(41)
where
.
(42)
Substitute (37) - (42) into Equation (36)
(43)
Since
is a sufficiently large number, we get
(44)
(45)
Let
,
Then
(46)
From the Gronwall’s inequality
(47)
Then
, thus uniqueness is proved.
Theorem 3 is proved.
Theorem 4. The global smooth solution of problem (1) - (3) satisfies lemma 1, lemma 2, and theorem 3.
Then the initial boundary value problem (1) - (3) has a family of global attractors
where:
is a bounded absorbing set in
and satisfies the following conditions:
1)
;
2)
(where
and is a bounded set), where
.
is the solution semigroup generated by the problem (1) - (3).
Proof. According to theorem 3, there exists a solution semigroup
of the problem (1) - (3).
According to lemma 2, we can obtain
This indicates that
is uniformly bounded on
.
Furthermore, for any
, when
, we have
Therefore,
is a bounded absorbing set for semigroup
.
According to the Rellich-Kondrachov’s theorem,
is compactly embedded into
, so the bounded set in
is the compact set in
. Therefore, solution semigroup
is a completely continuous operator, thus the family of global attractors
of solution semigroup
is obtained. where
.
Theorem 4 is proved.
3. Dimension Estimation for the Family of Global Attractors
In this section, we first linearize the equation to a first order variational equation and prove that solution semigroups
is uniformly differentiable on
. Finally, we estimate the upper bounds of the Hausdorff dimension and the Fractal dimension by using the generalized Sobolev-Lieb-Thirring inequality.
If we linearize the equation, we get
(48)
(49)
(50)
And for any
, the initial value problem (1) - (3) has a solution
.
Lemma 5. Initial value problem (1) - (3) exists a family of attractors
.
is bounded in
. The solution semigroup
determined by the initial value problem (1) - (3) is uniformly differentiable on the compact invariant set
. Its derivative is defined as
.
is the solution of the linear initial value problem (48) - (50). There is a bounded operator
.
And let
,
then
(51)
Proof.
and
.
Let
then
Subtracting from three formulas can be obtained:
(52)
where
Let
, where
To deal with
(53)
where
.
.
Take the inner product of
and
, and deal with it term by using the Young’s inequality,
(54)
where
.
(55)
where
.
(56)
where
.
(57)
where
.
So that
(58)
Similarly for
,
Take the inner product of
and
, and deal with the term by using Young’s inequality,
Poincare’s inequality,
(59)
where
.
(60)
where
.
(61)
where
,
(62)
where
.
Then
(63)
Take the inner product of
and the Formula (52), and combine the above formula to get
(64)
(65)
where
.
From the Gronwall’s inequality
(66)
(67)
So
is bounded.
When
, there is
Lemma 5 is proved.
Theorem 5. By lemma 5, for some n, define
,
then a family of global attracters
of the initial boundary value problem (1) - (3) has Hausdorff dimension and Fractal dimension is finite, and
.
Proof. Let
be an isomorphic mapping, then
,
where
.
The Frechet differentiability of
is known from lemma 5 to estimate the Hausdorff dimension and Fractal dimension of problem (48) - (50). The variational equation of Equation (49) under initial conditions is considered
(68)
where
.
For fixed
, let
be n elements of
, and let
be n solutions of the linear Equation (68) with corresponding initial values of
respectively, we can obtain
where
represents the outer product, tr represents the trace of the operator, and
is the orthogonal projection from the space
to
.
For a given time
, let
be an standard orthonormal basis for
.
Define an inner product on
And
where
where
(69)
Owing to the
,
is an orthonormal basis for
, so
(70)
For any t, there is
So
(71)
Let
then
Therefore, the Lyapunov exponent
of
is uniformly bounded, and
(72)
There is a
, such that
(73)
where
is the eigenvalue of
, and
.
(74)
Then
(75)
It can be concluded that n-dimensional volume elements decay exponentially in
and
, so the Hausdorff dimension and Fractal dimension of the whole attractor family are limited. Theorem 5 is proved.
4. Conclusion
We prove the existence and uniqueness of the global solution and the existence of a family of global attractors, and estimate the upper bound of the Hausdorff dimension for the family global attractors, and obtain the global stability of the problem.