Global Existence of Solutions to the Timoshenko-Fourier System in Critical Besov Spaces ()
1. Introduction
We are devoted to the following coupled system of the Timoshenko theory of vibrating beams [1] [2] with additional heat conduction effects according to Fourier’s law:
(1.1)
where
is the time variable and
is the spatial variable. The function
and
denote the transverse displacement of the beam from equilibrium and the angle of turn of the beam filaments,
is the temperature difference of the elastic material, and
,
and
are physical constants dependent on the elastic and thermal properties of the material. For any
, the smooth function
satisfies
, we are devoted to the Cauchy problem for the system (1.1), with initial conditions of
The linearized system of (1.1) is accordingly written as
(1.2)
where
represents the speed of sound defined by
.
represents the same wave speed and
implies different wave speeds for the first two equations corresponding to the Timoshenko-Fourier system.
We investigate the global existence of solutions to (1.3) in critical Besov spaces. Xu and Kawashima have developed a theory of local existence of general symmetric hyperbolic systems in critical Besov spaces, which is seen as a generalization of the basic theory of Kato and Majda [4] [5], and since that the non-symmetric dissipation
has no effect on the local-in-time existence, their results can be directly applied to the system (1.3). Based on the observation for the system (1.1), we argue that the viscous term
in (1.1) does not affect the mathematical entropy, allowing us to obtain a global a priori estimate by considering it from the perspective of the hyperbolic energy methods. The specific ideas are detailed in the following proof of Theorem 1.1. According to the references reviewed, very little has been done for the study of the Timoshenko-Fourier system, although many have achieved modest results for studying the fluid dynamic equations in critical Besov spaces, such as the Navier-Stokes equations in [6]-[9], and [10]-[13] for the Euler equation and related models. Due to non-symmetry of Timoshenko-Fourier system, although the first author and third author in [14] have studied general dissipative systems under the assumptions of dissipative entropy and the Shizuta-Kawashima condition in [15], their result cannot be directly applied to the Timoshenko-Fourier system. The conclusions related to the non-symmetry of relaxation matrices have been studied in [11], which provides the theoretical support for our research. Therefore, we first consider the case that (1.3) has the equal wave speed (
), and then the non-equal wave speed (
), of which we can derive the desired prior estimate by using a fundamental fact that the relation between homogeneous and non-homogeneous Chemin-Lerner spaces in Proposition 2.1. Finally, we construct global solutions pertaining to data in the Besov space
.
In the case of non-equal waves (
), there will be regularity loss (a loss of derivatives in the energy estimates), and the system (1.3) admits a weaker dissipation mechanism. To obtain similar result for (1.3) with
, we will establish the global-in-time existence:
for the Timoshenko-Fourier system with loss of regularity, which will lead to a significant reduction in the regularity requirement for the initial values compared to [16]. Moreover, compared to the case
, when estimating the dissipation with respect to
, we must utilize Proposition 2.1 for the topological relation between
and
to obtain the dissipation estimate on
.
This paper is arranged as follows. In Section 2, the related lemmas and propositions are shown. In Section 3, we establish several lemmas of estimating Proposition (3.2), which leads to the proof of Theorem 1.1.
Notations. Throughout, we provide some notations.
denotes
, where
is a general constant, the number represented by
in different rows may differ.
(
) denotes the space of continuous (continuously differentiable) functions that take values in
of the Banach space
.
means
, where
.
Main Results
Rewrite Equation (1.1) as the following Cauchy problem [3]:
(1.3)
where the coefficient matrices
,
and
are given by the following formula:
and
where
with
near
.
The main result of our work is stated as follows:
Theorem 1.1. Suppose
. There exists a positive constant
such that if
then the Cauchy problem (1.3) has a unique global classical solution
satisfying
In addition, the following energy inequality holds true
where
is some positive constant.
Remark 1.1. Theorem 1.1 exhibits the global-in-time existence of solutions to the Timoshenko-Fourier system in critical Besov spaces with the regularity
, which is the optimal result for the Timoshenko-Fourier system studied so far based on the dimension of the space and the conditions for system stability.
2. Preliminary
In this section, we mainly show the lemmas and propositions that will be used in the following; for proofs of the propositions, see the references [3] [17].
Lemma 2.1. Let
and
.
1) If Suppose
, for any
, then
2) If Suppose
, for any
, then
Lemma 2.2 Let
and
. then
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 of continuous bounded functions that decay at infinity.
Lemma 2.3 Suppose that
and
. It holds that
with
. In particular, this holds with
.
Integral existentiality depends on the connection between homogeneous Chemin-Lerner spaces and non-homogeneous Chemin-Lerner spaces, which we will only briefly illustrate here; see [3] for more detailed proofs.
Proposition 2.1. Let
and
, for any
1) It holds that
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
.
Proposition 2.4. Let
with
and
, Then there exists a function
that depends only on
and
such that
Proposition 2.5. The following inequality holds
with
and
A direct corollary is that
with
.
Proposition 2.6. Let
with
and
, then
3. The Proof of Theorem 1.1
Xu and Kawashimsa [3] established a local existence theory for general symmetric hyperbolic systems in critical Besov spaces, which is seen as a generalization of the basic theory established by Kato and Majda [4] [5], and it can be applied to Timoshenko-Fourier system (1.3). Precisely,
Proposition 3.1. Assuming
, there exists a time
(dependent only on initial data) such that
1) (Existence) The system (1.3) has a unique solution
that satisfying
;
2) (Blow-up Criterion) If the maximal time
existing of such a solution in finite, then
if and only if
Proof. In order to prove Proposition (3.1) (i), it suffices to show that
and
.
We used the stationary cases of estimates of commutator in [18] (Lemma 2.100, p. 112) to (3.26), we arrive at
(3.4)
Dividing (3.4) by
, we can obtain
(3.5)
Integrating (3.5) on the variable
, then taking
, and using the estimates of commutators and continuity for the composition in the stationary case (see, e.g., [19]), we have
(3.6)
where we used the embedding inequality
, Lemma 2.2 and Young’s inequality. Summing up (3.6) on
gives
(3.7)
Let
be a small number, using Gronwall’s inequality, we get
(3.8)
Furthermore, with proposition (2.5) we can deduce that
(3.9)
This completes Proposition (3.1) (i).
From [3], for a symmetric hyperbolic system it is sufficient to establish the blow-up criterion. Such a criterion can be established for the Timoshenko-Fourier system. We consider the symmetric system (1.3) with
for simplicity, since it is only responsible for the global well-posedness and large time behavior of solutions
(3.10)
Applying the homogeneous operator to (1.3), we infer that satisfies
(3.11)
Perform the inter product with on both sides of (3.11) to get
(3.12)
where
By integrating (3.12) with respect to
over
, we deduce that
(3.13)
Let
be a small number, dividing (3.13) by gives
(3.14)
where we used the stationary cases of estimates of commutator in [18] (Lemma 2.100, p. 112) and the sequence
satisfying
for all
.
Letting
and taking a time integration, we are lead to
(3.15)
Taking the
inner production (3.10) with
, it is easy to obtain
(3.16)
Adding (3.15) to (3.16), with the aid of Proposition 2.1(1) and Lemma 2.1, we have
(3.17)
The Gronwall’s inequality implies
(3.18)
So, the subsequent inequalities will hold true
(3.19)
This completes the proof of Proposition 3.1(ii).
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-Fourier system. To this end, we define energy generalization in terms of
and the corresponding dissipation generalization in terms of
:
for any time
.
In the case of
:
Lemma 3.1 (The dissipation for
) If
is a solution of (1.3) for any
, then
Proof. We start with the next equations
(3.20)
The five equations of the above system (3.20) are each multiplied in order by
and
. Adding the resulting equations yields
(3.21)
where
Noting that
is equivalent to
, due to
and the following smallness assumption, then integrating about
yields the basic energy equation
(3.22)
where the energy generalized function
is defined as
By integrating over
and then taking the square-root of the resultant inequality, we get
(3.23)
for any of
. Next, the dissipation rate of
is obtained by frequency localization estimation in homogeneous Chemin-Lerner space. Applying the operator to (3.20), we have
(3.24)
where the commutator is defined as
. Multiplying (3.24) with and , respectively, and then adding the resulting equations. We obtain
(3.25)
where
, and
Further, integrating over
and with the aid of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality yield
(3.26)
where
From the above (1.3) and the following a priori assumption (3.69), we have
(3.27)
Similarly,
(3.28)
Combining (3.27)-(3.28) and integrating over
, with the aid of Young’s inequality we are led to
(3.29)
By the commutator estimate in Proposition 2.3, it holds
(3.30)
where
denotes a sequence satisfying
. Therefore, we get
(3.31)
Here, we would like to point out that each
may have a different form in the (3.31) equation or the inequality that emerges after, but the bound of
is well satisfied. Thus, summing over
, we have
(3.32)
Finally, combining (3.23) and (3.32), we conclude from Proposition 2.2 that
(3.33)
Thus, the proof of Lemma 3.1 is completed.
Lemma 3.2. (The dissipation for
) If
is a solution of (1.3) for any
, then
(3.34)
Proof. The system (1.3) can be rewritten in the following form:
(3.35)
where the smooth function
is defined as
and satisfies
and
. Multiplying the first equation in (3.35) by
, the second by
, the third by
, and the fourth by
, respectively, and then adding the resulting equations together give
(3.36)
where
Using the Young’s inequality, we can conclude that
(3.37)
Integration of (3.37) in
leads to
(3.38)
for any
, here we utilize the embedding property in Lemma 2.2. Then, by Young’s inequality again, we arrive at
(3.39)
Next, Applying the operator to (3.35) yields
(3.40)
Multiplying the first equation in (3.40) by , the second by , the third by , and the fourth by , respectively, and then adding the resulting equations. we get
(3.41)
where
Using the Hölder inequality and Young’s inequality gives
(3.42)
where
By integrating over
, we have
(3.43)
In addition, Young’s inequality allows us to obtain
(3.44)
where the norm of
at the right end of (3.44) can be estimated by applying Lemma 2.2 and Proposition 2.4
(3.45)
Thus, combining (3.44)-(3.45) and summing
, we get
(3.46)
Finally, note that (3.39) and (3.46), by proposition 2.1, we obtain
(3.47)
This proves Lemma 3.2.
Lemma 3.3 (The dissipation for
) If
is a solution of (1.3) for any
, then
(3.48)
Proof. Multiplying the third equation of (3.35) by
and the fourth equation by
, respectively, and then adding up the resulting equations, we have
(3.49)
where
Integrating (3.49) over
, we get
That is
(3.50)
where
Similar to the process for (3.39), we obtain
(3.51)
Furthermore, by (3.40), it holds
(3.52)
The equations (3.52) are multiplied by and , respectively, and then utilizing the energy estimates on each block, we get
(3.53)
In addition, similar to the processes of (3.45)-(3.46), we arrive at
(3.54)
where choosing
.
Eventually, combining (3.51) and (3.54) gives Lemma 3.3.
Lemma 3.4. (The dissipation for
) If
is a solution of (1.3) for any
, then
(3.55)
Proof. Applying the nonhomogeneous operator
to the first and second equations of (3.35) yields
(3.56)
Multiplying (3.56) by
and
, we get
(3.57)
where
Further, integration of (3.57) with respect to
leads to
(3.58)
With the aid of Young’s inequality and the embedding property in Lemma 2.2, we obtain
(3.59)
Thus, we finish the proof of Lemma 3.4.
The case of
: The dissipation with respect to
is the same as in the case of equal waves (
). Here we only need to show the dissipation with respect to
in the case of non-equal waves (
). It is needed to use proposition 2.1 for the topological relation between
and
to obtain the dissipative estimate of
.
Lemma 3.5. (The dissipation for v) If
is a solution of (1.3) for any
, then
(3.60)
for any
,
is a positive constant here depending on
.
Proof. Rewrite the system (1.3) in the following form:
(3.61)
where the smooth function
is defined by
satisfying
and
.
First, applying the non-homogeneous frequency localization operator
to (3.61) leads to
(3.62)
Subsequently, multiplying the first equation in (3.62) by
, the second equation by
, the third equation by
, and the fourth equation by
, and then adding up the resulting equations, we have
(3.63)
where
Integrating (3.63) over
, using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we get
(3.64)
where
By integrating over
, we arrive at
(3.65)
where noting the case of
. In addition, utilizing the Young’s inequality gives
(3.66)
where
for
, where
are position constants dependent on
. Knowing the fact
, it follows from Proposition 2.5 and Proposition 2.6 that
(3.67)
Combining the above estimations (3.66)-(3.67), and summing over
, we obtain
(3.68)
This gives (3.60).
From the above Lemma 3.1-Lemma 3.5, the following Proposition 3.2 holds.
Proposition 3.2. Suppose that for any
,
is a solution of (1.3), and there exists
such that when
(3.69)
then the following estimate holds
(3.70)
Therefore, the following inequality holds
(3.71)
By using the standard boot-strap argument, the proof of Theorem 1.1 is similar to the process in [20], and we omit the details here for the sake of brevity.
Acknowledgements
The first author (H. M. Cao) is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12001269) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.