The Oscillation of a Class of Fractional Impulsive Partial Differential Equations ()
1. Introduction
Since fractional calculus is well-suited to characterizing materials and processes with memory and genetic properties, many important mathematical models are described by differential equations containing fractional derivatives, which are often neglected in classical models. Nowadays, fractional differential equations are increasingly used to describe problems in optics, thermal systems, rheology, fluid mechanics systems, signal processing, system identification, control, robotics and other applications [1]-[5].
There have been many studies on ordinary differential equations and fractional differential equations [6]-[12]. Recently, many scholars have studied the oscillation properties of fractional partial differential equations [13]-[20]. However, so far, the oscillation properties of fractional partial differential equations with several time delays are still rare. In 2017, Raheem A and Maqbul M [21] used differential inequality methods to study the oscillation of a class of fractional partial differential equations with impulse and forced terms under Robin and Dirichlet boundary conditions. In 2023, Chatzarakis and Logaarasi [22] studied the oscillation of impulsive fractional partial differential equations, and some sufficient conditions were established to guarantee the oscillation of the solutions. Both of them dealt with their problems with Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives. In this paper, we study the oscillation of the impulsive partial differential equations with the conformable fractional derivatives, and the coefficients of Laplacian operator are nonlinear.
The conformable fractional derivative satisfies the chain and product rules, which simplifies the calculation of composite function derivatives [23]. A similar proof approach can be extended to the Riemann-Liouville derivative in some cases; whether it can be applied to Caputo derivative needs more exploration [24].
In this paper, we study the forced oscillation properties of the following nonlinear fractional impulsive delay partial differential equations under the conformable fractional calculus definition.
(1.1)
We consider Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions
(1.2)
or
(1.3)
where
is a constant,
is the conformable fractional derivative of order
with respect to
of a function
, Ω is a bounded domain in
with a smooth boundary
,
;
, Δ is the Laplacian operator,
is the outer normal vector of the boundary
,
are non-negative constants:
and
;
,
,
and the forced term
,
denotes the class of piecewise continuous functions that have
as first-kind discontinuity points and are left-continuous at these points. The solutions
of problems (1.1) and (1.2) (or (1.1) and (1.3)) and their fractional derivatives
are piecewise continuous functions with
as first-kind discontinuity points and are left-continuous at these points; that is,
The following are the basic assumptions of this paper:
H1.
are continuous functions, and for
, there exist positive constants
such that
.
H2.
, and
.
H3.
;
and
.
H4.
,
, where
and
are constants.
H5.
.
In this paper, for the sake of convenience, we introduce the following notations:
Definition 1.1. A nonzero solution
of problems (1.1) and (1.2) or ((1.1) and (1.3)) is nonoscillatory in the region
if there exists a constant
such that for
, either
or
always holds; otherwise, it is called oscillatory.
Definition 1.2. [23] Given a function
. Then the conformable fractional derivative of
of order
is defined by
for all
. If
is
-differentiable in some
, and
exists, then we define
.
Definition 1.3. [23] The conformable fractional integral operator of order
,
, of a function
is defined as
where the integral is defined in the sense of the improper Riemann integral.
The following presents some important related properties under the conformable fractional calculus definition [23]:
Let
and
be
-differentiable at a point
. Then
1)
for all
.
2)
for all
.
3)
, for all constant functions
.
4)
.
5)
.
6) If
is differentiable, then
.
Lemma 1.1. [12] Let
be a constant. Then for the following problem
Its minimum eigenvalue
is positive, and the corresponding eigenfunction
is also positive for
.
Lemma 1.2. [21] Suppose the following inequalities hold:
where
and
.
,
, and
are constants. Then,
2. Main Theorems and Their Proofs
Theorem 2.1. Suppose that the assumption (H1)-(H5) hold. If the fractional impulsive differential inequalities
(2.1)
have no eventually positive solutions and the fractional impulsive differential inequalities
(2.2)
have no eventually negative solutions, then every nonzero solution
of problems (1.1) and (1.2) is oscillatory in
.
Proof (by contradiction) Suppose that
is a non-oscillatory solution of problems (1.1) and (1.2). Without loss of generality, we assume that
is an eventually positive solution of problems (1.1) and (1.2), that is, there exists
such that when
,
,
and
.
1) When
, integrating the first equation of (1.1) with respect to
over the bounded domain Ω on both sides, we get:
(2.3)
According to Green’s formula, combining with the boundary condition (1.2) and the assumption (H3), we obtain:
(2.4)
Similarly, we can obtain
(2.5)
According to the assumption (H1) and (H2), we obtain
(2.6)
By combining (2.3) - (2.6), we can obtain
(2.7)
2) When
, integrating the second and third equations of (1.1) with respect to
over the bounded domain Ω on both sides and combining with the assumption (H4), we obtain
(2.8)
Therefore, from the impulsive differential inequalities (2.7)-(2.8), we know that the function
is an eventually positive solution of the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.1), which contradicts the assumed conditions.
On the other hand, if
is an eventually negative solution of problems (1.1) and (1.2) in
, that is, there exists
such that when
,
,
and
.
3) When
, by using Green’s formula for Equation (2.3) and combining with the boundary condition (1.2) and the assumption (H3), we have:
(2.9)
Similarly, we can obtain
(2.10)
According to the conditions (H1) and (H2), we get
(2.11)
By combining (2.3), (2.9) - (2.11), we can obtain
(2.12)
4) When
, integrating the second and third equations of (1.1) with respect to
over the bounded domain Ω on both sides and combining with the assumption (H4), we obtain:
(2.13)
Therefore, from the impulsive differential inequalities (2.12)-(2.13), we know that the function
is an eventually negative solution of the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.2), which contradicts the assumed conditions. The proof is completed.
Theorem 2.2. Suppose that
, and the conditions (H1) and (H2), (H4) and (H5) hold. If the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.1) has no eventually positive solutions and inequality (2.2) has no eventually negative solutions, then every nonzero solution
of problems (1.1) and (1.3) is oscillatory in
.
Proof (by contradiction) Suppose that
is solution of problems (1.1) and (1.3) (where
). Without loss of generality, we assume that
is an eventually positive solution of problems (1.1) and (1.3), that is, there exists
such that when
,
,
and
.
1) When
, multiplying the first equation of (1.1) by
on both sides and integrating with respect to
over the bounded domain Ω, we obtain:
(2.14)
According to Green’s formula, the boundary condition (1.3), and Lemma 1.1, we obtain:
(2.15)
(2.16)
And according to the assumptions (H1) - (H2), we have
(2.17)
Furthermore, we have
(2.18)
Combining (2.14)-(2.18), we get
(2.19)
where
,
.
2) When
, multiplying the second and third equations of (1.1) by
on both sides and integrating with respect to
over the bounded domain
, according to the condition (H4), similarly, we can obtain
(2.20)
Therefore, from the impulsive differential inequalities (2.19)-(2.20), we know that the function
is an eventually positive solution of the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.1), which contradicts the assumed conditions.
On the other hand, if
is an eventually negative solution of problems (1.1) and (1.3) in
, similarly, we can know that the function
is an eventually negative solution of the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.2), which contradicts the assumed conditions. The proof is completed.
Theorem 2.3. Suppose that the conditions (H1)-(H5) hold. If there exists
such that
(2.21)
and there exists
such that
(2.22)
(2.23)
Then every solution of problems (1.1) and (1.2) is oscillatory in
.
Proof (by contradiction) To prove this theorem, we first prove that the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.1) has no eventually positive solutions and the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.2) has no eventually negative solutions. Without loss of generality, we assume that
is an eventually positive solution of the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.1), then there exists
such that
,
,
. Let
, by property (2) in Definition 1.3,
. Hence, we have:
(2.24)
From Equation (2.24), Equation (2.19) can be transformed into
(2.25)
So we have
(2.26)
Also, according to the third formula of (1.1), when
,
is strictly monotonically decreasing and non-sign-changing. Since
when
, it can be known that
is eventually not changing in sign. When
,
, otherwise,
, that is, there exists
such that
. Since
is strictly monotonically decreasing on
, then when
,
. So the following inequality holds
(2.27)
Dividing both sides of the above formula by
and integrating, we get
(2.28)
Let
, we can obtain , which contradicts Equation (2.21), so
.
Let
. According to the first two formulas of the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.1), we can get
(2.29)
By Lemma (1.2), we can obtain
(2.30)
Therefore,
(2.31)
When
, and by Formula (2.22), we can get
(2.32)
It can be seen that this contradicts
. The proof is completed.
On the other hand, if the fractional impulsive differential inequality (2.2) has an eventually negative solution
, then there exists
such that
,
,
,
,
. Similarly, we can get
. According to the inequality (2.2), we have
(2.33)
Let
, then we can get
(2.34)
According to Lemma 1.2, we have
(2.35)
So, we have
(2.36)
Then
(2.37)
When
, we can get
(2.38)
which contradicts
, the proof is completed.
Theorem 2.4. Under the conditions of Theorem 2.2, if there exist
such that (2.21)-(2.23) hold, then every solution of problems (1.1) and (1.3) is oscillatory in
.
3. Example
Example 3.1. Consider the following fractional impulsive partial differential equations with multiple delays:
(3.1)
The boundary conditions satisfy
(3.2)
where
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
. It can be calculated that
(3.3)
(3.4)
(3.5)
Therefore, all the conditions of Theorem 2.3 are satisfied. So all nonzero solutions of problems (3.1)-(3.2) are oscillatory.
The oscillation criteria derived in this paper may be applied to viscoelastic beam vibration models (fractional-order systems with memory effects) and thermal diffusion processes (delayed diffusion equations with impulsive disturbances). For instance, both in the vibration of a viscoelastic beam and thin film, the impulsive terms can represent instantaneous external force impacts, while the multiple time delays correspond to the hysteretic effects of stress transmission inside the material. The results of this paper may be used to determine whether the beam undergoes sustained vibration or tends to be stable.
Acknowledgements
This research was partially supported by grants from the National Nature Science Foundation of China, No. 12371228. Authors sincerely appreciate the reviewers’ valuable comments.