The Global Existence of Smooth Solutions for Timoshenko-Cattaneo System with Two-Sound Waves in Besov Space ()
1. Introduction
In the present work, we investigate the following Timoshenko-Cattaneo system in thermoelasticity of second sound in one-dimensional whole space:
(1)
where
denotes the time variable and
is the space variable, the functions
and
denote the displacements of the elastic material, the function
is the temperature difference, q is heat flux, and
and
are certain positive constants depending on the material elastic and thermal properties. The smooth function
satisfies
for any
. In this paper, we focus on the Cauchy problem to (1), assuming initial conditions:
(2)
The linearized version of (1) reads correspondingly
(3)
Note that here, we do not need to distinguish between
and
, as in both cases, the decay property of solutions to (3) is of regularity-loss type. In the whole space, introduce the following variables
System (3) can be rewritten as the following first-order hyperbolic system
(4)
And the initial conditions (2) are taken in the form
(5)
where
System (4)-(5) is equivalent to
(6)
where
(7)
and
. Note that the relaxation matrix L is not symmetric.
Taking the Fourier transform of (6), we obtain the following Cauchy problem for a first-order system
(8)
Solving this equation, it holds
where
(9)
The solution of (6) is then given by
where
The conclusions related to the non-symmetry of relaxation matrices have been studied in [1], which provides the theoretical support for our study.
From [2], we know that under the assumption
, the following decay properties were shown for
to (6):
(10)
Let
and assume
, the following decay properties were shown for
to (6):
(11)
where
are non-negative integers satisfying
.
Remark 1.1 Whether equal wave speeds or non-equal wave speeds, the Timoshenko-Cattaneo system model exhibits a loss of regularity in the high-frequency part, and the pure Timoshenko system also produced
only under the assumption of additional
-th regularity of the initial data.
Moreover, Under the requirement of high regularity
for the initial data, Racke and Said-Houari [3] used an energy method with negative weights to create artificial damping to control the nonlinearity, thus obtaining an overall existence and decay estimate for solutions. [4] is an improvement of [3]. The requirement for initial data is reduced in the literature of [4]. Not only the global existence of solutions on
is obtained without using the weighted energy method but also the decay estimate of solutions on
is obtained by using the
-
-
estimate.
In this paper, we will use suitable variable substitution methods to transform the research problem of the Timoshenko-Cattaneo model into the Cauchy problem for a first-order system. Due to the asymmetry of
, the general theories in [5] [6] cannot be directly applied to the Timoshenko-Cattaneo system (1), which is the motivation of our research. Then the methods in [7] are referred. We hope to establish similar results for the Timoshenko-Cattaneo model (12). The main difference between the models studied in this article and the Timoshenko-Fourier model with respect to the computation of the global existence is the dissipation of
. While there is no loss of regularity of
, the
norm on
itself is missing in the Timoshenko-Cattaneo model.
System (4)-(5) admits the decay property (10)-(11), which is of regularity-loss type at the high frequency, consequently it seems impossible to obtain the optimal decay rate with the relatively lower regularity. In order to overcome it, one can use the methods in [8] [9]. In the case of equal wave speeds, the frequency localized Duhamel’s principle is used in [9]. In the case of non-equal wave speeds, the new frequency-localized time decay inequality is used in [8]. In [9], the corresponding Littlewood-Paley pointwise energy inequality is obtained through the following inequality
which is given in [4], also the corresponding Grönwall’s inequality
holds, and finally the new frequency-localized time decay inequality is used at low and high frequencies to obtain the optimal decay for the Timoshenko-Fourier model in the critical Besov space. The pure Timoshenko model has an important research value for the study of the Timoshenko-Fourier and Timoshenko-Cattaneo models coupled with the heat equation. And it is well known that the pure Timoshenko model plus the damping term a decay rate exhibits an exponential decay (in the case of equal waves), the Timoshenko-Fourier model continues this decay property, while for the Timoshenko-Cattaneo model, even with the addition of the classical damping, this decay property cannot be recovered in any case. The structure of the nonlinear part of the Timoshenko-Cattaneo model with second sound is the same as that of the nonlinear part of the Timoshenko-Fourier model, and the method performed by Xu Jiang, Naofumi Mori and Shuichi Kawashima [9] can be used for the study of the decay rate in this paper.
2. Preliminary
In this section, we mainly show the lemmas and propositions used in this article. For proof of the propositions, see the references [10] [11].
Lemma 2.1 Let
and
.
i) Suppose
, for any
, then
ii) Suppose
, for any
, then
Lemma 2.2 Let
and
.
1) If
, then
.
2) If
, then
↪
. This inclusion relation is false for the homogeneous Besov spaces.
3) If
, then
↪
and
↪
.
4) If
, then
↪
and
↪
.
5) If
, then
; If
, then
.
6)
↪
,
↪
,
where
is the spaces continuous bounded functions which decay at infinity.
Lemma 2.3 Suppose that
and
. It holds that
with
. In particular, this holds with
.
Global existence depends on the connection between homogeneous Chemin-Lerner spaces and non-homogeneous Chemin-Lerner spaces, which will be briefly illustrated here; see [11] for a detailed proof.
Proposition 2.1 Let
and
, for any
1) It holds that ss
2) Moreover, as
and
, it holds that
Proposition 2.2 Let
and
, then
is an algebra and
Let
such that
. Then one has
Proposition 2.3 Let
and
. Then there exists a constant
that depends only on
such that
with
, where the commutators
is defined by
and
denotes a sequence such that
.
3. Main Theorem and Proofs
It is convenient to rewrite (1)-(2) as the following Cauchy problem
(12)
where
with
near
.
The main theorem of this article is shown as follows:
Theorem 3.1 Suppose
. There exists a positive constant
such that
then the Cauchy problem (12) has a unique global classical solution
satisfying
In addition, the following energy inequality holds true
is arbitrary constant.
Next, we start with a couple of equations
(13)
The second and third authors in [11] established a local existence theory for general symmetric hyperbolic systems in critical Besov spaces on the basis of the basic theory established by Kato and Majda [11] [12], which can be applied to problem (12). Precisely,
Proposition 3.1 Assuming
, there exists a time
(dependent only on initial data) when there is
i) (Existence) The system (12) has a unique solution
that is satisfying
;
ii) (Blow-up Criterion) If the maximal time
existing of such a solution is finite, then
if and only if
Moreover, to prove that the classical solution in Proposition 3.1 is globally defined, we need to construct a priori estimates based on the dissipation mechanism generated by the Timoshenko-Cattaneo system. To this end, we define energy functional in terms of
and the corresponding dissipation functional in terms of
:
for any time
.
Next, we will complete the proof of Proposition 3.1 in several steps:
Step 1: The
estimate of
and the
one of
.
In the same way as in [5], the equations in (13) are multiplied by
, and then the resulting equations are added together to give
(14)
where
In addition, we know that
. Hence, integrating (14) over
yields
(15)
Step 2: The dissipation of
.
The dissipation rate of
is obtained by frequency localization estimation in homogeneous Chemin-Lerner space. Applying the operator to (13) yields that
(16)
In the above equation, the commutator is defined as
. Multiplying the first equation in (16) by , the second by , the third by , the fourth by , the fifth by , and the sixth by , respectively. Then adding up the resulting equations together gives
(17)
where
Further, integrating (17) over
, with the aid of Cauchy-Schwarz inequality we obtain
(18)
where
From the above (12) and the following a priori assumption (39), we get
(19)
Similarly,
(20)
Combining (19)-(20), by integrating over
and applying the Young’s inequality, we get
(21)
By the commutator estimate in Proposition 2.3, it holds
(22)
where
denotes a sequence satisfying
. Therefore, we have
(23)
Here, we would like to point out that each
may have a different form in (23) or the inequality that emerges after, but the bound of
is well satisfied. Thus, summing over
, we can get
(24)
From (15) we have
(25)
Combining (24)-(25) gives
(26)
Step 3: The dissipation of
.
Multiplying the fifth equation and the sixth equation in (16) by and , respectively. Then adding up the results obtained yields
(27)
where
Integrating (27) on
, we can get
(28)
Furthermore, with the aid of Young’s inequality, we obtain
(29)
By multiplying the fifth equation and the sixth equation in (13) by
and
, respectively, we have
(30)
where
Applying Young’s inequality enables us to get
(31)
Integrating (31), we obtain
(32)
Then, we use the Young’s inequality to give
(33)
Combining (29) and (33), we get
(34)
The calculations in Step 4 to Step 7 below are the same as those in [8] [9], with the difference that there is an additional dissipation about
in our model, but the presence of this item does not affect the overall operation. The
appearing in the computation for
is handled by using Hölder inequality, and the
appearing in
is handled with the aid of the inequality
, thus the desired dissipation constraints on
can be obtained. Here the proofs are omitted for the sake of simplicity.
Step 4: The dissipation for
.
If
is a solution of (12) for any
, then
(35)
Step 5: The dissipation for
.
If
is a solution of (12) for any
, we have
(36)
Step 6: The dissipation for
.
If
is a solution of (12) for any
, it holds
(37)
Step 7: The dissipation for
.
If
is a solution of (12) for any
, then
(38)
Combining (26), (34)-(38), the proof of Proposition 3.2 is finished.
Proposition 3.2 Suppose that for any
,
is a solution of (12), and there exists
such that when
(39)
the next estimate holds:
(40)
Therefore, the next inequality will hold
(41)
By using the standard boot-strap argument, the proof of Theorem 3.1 is similar to the process of [8], and we omit the details here for brevity.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the referee for his (her) invaluable comments and suggestions, which improved the presentation of the manuscript. The author would like to express her deep appreciation to Professor Hongmei Cao for her suggestions and encouragement on this work.