Abstract
Navier–Stokes equations (NS-equations) are applied extensively for the study of various waves phenomena where the symmetries are involved. In this paper, we discuss the NS-equations with the time-fractional derivative of order . In fractional media, these equations can be utilized to recreate anomalous diffusion equations which can be used to construct symmetries. We examine the initial value problem involving the symmetric Stokes operator and gravitational force utilizing the Caputo fractional derivative. Additionally, we demonstrate the global and local mild solutions in . We also demonstrate the regularity of classical solutions in such circumstances. An example is presented to demonstrate the reliability of our findings.
MSC:
34A08; 34A12
1. Introduction
Because of their importance in fluid mechanics, the Navier–Stokes equations have been extensively studied by various researchers. NS-equations are partial differential equations that describe the flow of incompressible fluid. These equations are generalization of the equations devised by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in the eighteen century to describe the flow of incompressible and frictionless fluids. The NS-equations are useful because they describe the physics of many scientific and engineering phenomena. These can be used to simulate weather, ocean currents, water flow in a pipe, and airflow around a wing, etc. The difference between the NS-equations and the Euler equations is that the NS-equations account for viscosity, whereas the Euler equations exclusively simulate inviscid flow.
As a result, the NS-equations are parabolic equations, which have exceptional analytic features. In a purely mathematical sense, the NS-equations are extremely interesting. Despite its extensive range of applications, it is still unknown if smooth solutions always exist in three dimensions, that is, whether these are infinite and differentiable at all points in the domain. The existence and smoothness problem is known as the Navier–Stokes problem.
Different scholars focus on mass and momentum conservation and describe useful phenomena concerning the motion of the incompressible fluid flow, ranging from large-scale atmospheric motions to the lubricant in ball bearings; see, Varnhorn [1], as well as Cannone [2]. Similarly, Rieusset [3] discussed the existence, uniqueness and regularity of NS-equations.
Jean Leray was a French mathematician who work on both PDEs and algebraic topology and explained a fascinating phenomenon. The Leray projection is a linear operator that is useful in the theory of partial differential equations, particularly in the subject of fluid dynamics. It can be considered as a projection on a vector field with no divergence. In the Stokes equations and NS-equations, it is applied to eliminate both the pressure term and the divergence-free term; see [4].
Aljandro Rangel-Huerts and Blanca Bermudez solved NS-equations using two unique formulations with moderate and high Reynolds numbers. They used two numerical solutions of lid-driven cavity and Taylor vortex problems. These problems can be solved by using stream function vorticity in two dimensions of NS-equations; see [5]. Moreover, Gallgher [6], Giga [7], Rejaiba [8], Kozono [9], Sell [10] and Choe [11] found unique results on the regularity of weak and strong solutions. Emilia Bazhlekova et al. [12] analyzed the Rayleigh Stokes’ problems. Rayleigh problem is also known as Stokes’ first problem which is a problem of determining the flow created by a sudden movement of an infinitely long plate from rest named after Lord Rayleigh and Sir George Stokes. The authors studied the Reyleigh problems involving RL-fractional derivative. They worked on smooth and non-smoothness initial data for Sobolev regularity of homogeneous problems.
On the contrary, fractional calculus has received a lot of attention in recent years. Many of the fundamental piece of calculus are related to fluid mechanics like total derivative, gradients, divergence and rotation. Fractional calculus proved that the topic indeed is very promising like in control theory of dynamical system, porous structure, viscoelasticity and among others; see, e.g., Hilfer [13], Herrmann [14], and Zhou [15,16,17]. Such models are important not just in Physics but also in pure mathematics. Recently, experimental data and theoretical analysis have shown that the diffusion equation fails to describes the diffusion phenomena in porous media. Basically, the diffusion equation is a parabolic PDE. In Physics, it describe the microscopic behavior of many microparticles in Brownain motion.
Do NS-equations describe all the motion of the fluid? Serkan Solmaz gave an interesting fact that the NS-equations encompass all types of fluid motion in case they are combined with a related mathematical model such as multi-phase flow, chemical reaction and turbulent, etc. It is significant to specify the degree of error throughout the analysis in which the NS-equations enable a reasonable range of error. Thereby, these are the most famous equations that examine the motion of fluid reliably. Different authors talked about the time fractional NS-equations; see [18,19,20]. Moreover, to the best of our insight there are not many results on the existence, uniqueness and regularity of mild solution for time fractional NS-equations.
Keeping this in view, we discuss the time fractional NS-equations in an open set :
where is a gravitational force or body force, is a pressure gradient, is viscous term or diffusion term, is local acceleration and be the Caputo fractional derivative with order and the time . By applying a well-known Helmholtz projector P on (1) for getting rid of the pressure term, one has
B is the Stokes operator under consideration, where b is the initial velocity and is the Dirichlet boundary condition. The abstract form of (1) is
where .
The arrangement of the paper is as: In Section 2, we review some helpful preliminaries. In Section 3, study of the global and local existence of mild solutions of problem (2) in is conducted. In Section 4, the regularity of classic solutions in will be discussed. At last, an example will be presented.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we discuss some known definitions, notations and results.
Suppose that, be an open subset of where and . Then there exists a bounded projection
as well as the null space is the closure of
Suppose that, , be the closed subspace of . be a Sobolev space along the norm .
is said to be the Stokes operator in whose domain is Here
It is noted that is a closed linear operator as well as generates the bounded analytic semi-group on .
We present new fractional power space definitions that are connected to . For as well as , define
is bounded and one-to-one operator on . Suppose that is the inverse of . For , indicate the space according to the range along the norm
It is not difficult to see that restrict to be a bounded analytic semi-group on , for further details; see [21].
Suppose that Y is a Banach space as well as Q is the interval of . All continuous Y valued functions are represented by . So for indicates for the set of all functions is Holder continuous along the exponent .
Assume that as well as , the fractional integral with the order along the lower limit zero for the function w is defined as
the R.H.S is point-wise defined on the interval where is said to be the Riemann-Liouville kernel
indicates the Caputo fractional derivative operator with order . It can be described as
Generally, for , Caputo fractional derivative w.r.t time for the function w can be defined as
for further details; see [22]. Now, we define generalized Mittag-Leffler functions:
where is Mainardi’s Wright Type function defined as
Lemma 1.
In uniform operator topology, and are continuous. On the interval , the continuity is uniform for every .
Lemma 2.
Let . At that point the following properties hold:
- (i) for every ;
- (ii) for every and ;
- (iii) for every ;
- (iv) for .
Definition 1.
A function is said to be the global mild solution of (2) in , if and for
Definition 2.
Lemma 3.
Suppose that is a Banach space, be a bi-linear operator as well as K be a non-negative real number in such a way that
Then, for some with , the relation must have a unique solution
Theorem 1.
Proposition 1.
Prove that
- (i)
- (ii)
Proof.
(i) Since , by using Fabini’s Theorem, we get
- (ii)
- We follow the same steps□
3. Global and Local Existence in
In this section, our main purpose is to build up sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the mild solution of problem (2) in . We suppose that
Hypothesis 1 (H1).
is said to be continuous for and as for .
Lemma 4.
See ([23]). Suppose that and . Then, at that point there exist a constant in such a way that
for . Moreover,
Lemma 5.
Suppose that and . For any there is a constant in such a way that
for all as well as . Moreover,
Proof.
Let . According to Lemma 4, we consider
A well-known theorem, theorem shows that
Similarly
where the constant term is , such that
□
3.1. Global Existence in
The global mild solution of (2) in is investigated in this subsection. For comfort, we signify
Theorem 2.
Suppose that and condition (H1) holds. For each . Let
where . If , then at that point there is and a unique function fulfils the conditions given below:
- (i)
- is continuous as well as ;
- (ii)
- is continuous as well as ;
- (iii)
- v fulfils (3) for .
Proof.
The proof of this theorem is similar to that in [24] with a slight change according to our problem. □
3.2. Local Existence in
The local mild solution of (2) in is discussed in this section.
Theorem 3.
Let and H1 (the supposition is given in the beginning of Section 3) holds. Assume that
Then, there is in such a way that for each there exist as well as is a unique function that fulfils the following properties:
- (i)
- is continuous and ;
- (ii)
- is continuous and ;
- (iii)
- For , v satisfy (3).
Proof.
Alike the proof of Theorem 2, it is not difficult to claim that be continuous linear mapping as well as .
By Lemma 5, it can easily be seen that
Therefore, let be small in such a way that
As a result of Lemma 3, has a fixed point that is unique. □
Suppose that and the space of all curves is in such a way that:
- (i)
- is continuous and ;
- (ii)
- is continuous and ;with its neutral form
4. Local Existence in
In this section, we discuss the local mild solution of (2) by using iteration method. Suppose that :
Theorem 4.
Proof.
Step 1: Describe
and
considering the integral . Thus
where is a continuous function. Using Theorem 2, we show that is continuous in the interval by using
For as , is the solution. Here, (9) denotes, as . In , we show that φ is continuous. In fact, if we take , we get
as a result of previous conversations.
We also consider the function . It is clear by Lemma 5 that
Step 2: Now, we derive the result using successive approximations:
Using the information presented above, we can deduce that
are increasing and continuous functions on with . Furthermore, fulfils the following inequality as a result of (9) and (10):
We choose such that ,
The sequence is thus bounded, according to a fundamental consideration of (11).
where
In the same way, holds for any . Similarly, we may see that
Suppose that the equality
where as well as . Writing
By Equation (8), we get
by Theorem 2, we have
The above inequality gives
By Equations (12) and (13), it is not difficult to show that
as a result, the series converge. It prove that for the series
converge uniformly. As a result, the sequence converge uniformly in . This suggests that
as well as
since is both bounded and is closed. As a result, the function
also meets the condition
as well as
Finally, make sure that v in is a mild solution to problem (2). Since
we have . We get (9) by taking the limits on both sides
If we set , we get (15) for and . Furthermore, the consistent convergence of drive the continuity of . According to (14) and , we have is obvious.
Step 3: We show that the mild solution is unique. Assume that v and w are the mild solutions of problem (2). We consider the equality
Introducing the function
By (8) and Lemma 5, we get
For , the Gronwall inequality demonstrates that . Since , this means that . As a result, the mild solution is unique. □
5. Regularity
Considering the regularity of v which satisfy (2), overall in this section, we suppose that:
Hypothesis 2 (H2).
be the Holer continuous along the exponent , i.e.,
Definition 3.
Lemma 6.
Proof.
As
then
We must show that is lder continuous.
then
In view of we derive that
By the Mean Value Theorem, for each we get
Let in such a way that , then
We discuss these terms step by step. For , by (16) and , we get
so
For , by using Lemma 5 and ,
Moreover, for , again we use and Lemma 5, we get
Combining Equations (18)–(20), we conclude that is Hlder continuous. □
Theorem 5.
Assume that the suppositions of Theorem 4 are fulfilled. The mild solution of Theorem 4 is classic if for each , (H2) holds.
Proof.
In the case of , Part (ii) of Lemma 2 shows that the following problem has a classic solution:
Step 1: We show that
is classic solution of the problem
From Theorem 4 we write where
Since holds, it observes that
as a result
We also explain that By Lemma 2(iv), as well as , we get
It remains to show that is continuously differentiable in . Suppose that , we have
Note that
according to Dominated Convergence Theorem, we note that
Furthermore,
By Lemmas 1 and 5 and , we get
We conclude that is differentiable at as well as Same as is differentiable at as well as
We indicate According to Lemma 2(iv) and (5)
Thus,
For each small , take k in such a way that , since
By applying and Lemma 5, we have
To prove , we consider the inequality
This gives that . By Mean Value Theorem
thus
which shows that Therefore because of arbitrary .
Recall
Since where in , is bounded and continuous. A similar conversation made it possible to provide the Holer continuity of in Hence, we have
Since , by Step 2, this proves that and We obtain and
Hence, we prove that v is a classical solution. □
6. Example
In this section, we present an example to indicate the applicability of our results:
Example 1.
Suppose that as well as . At that point, we define infinitesimal dimensional space and consider a system
where (H1) is satisfied by the nonlinear function f as an operator for every and . Consider
Because
from into , the operator Q is bounded. However, it is not easy to see that . Suppose that φ is an arbitrary element in and is defined as
Suppose that
as well as
Hence, we declare that for each given , there exist in such a way that
this indicates that (H2) is fulfilled.
7. Conclusions
The purpose of this paper is to study the time fractional NS-equations using initial value problem with the Caputo derivative. We proved the global and local existence of mild solution in . We established sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the mild solution for problem (2) in . Moreover, we showed that classical solutions that satisfy problem (2) are regular. Furthermore, we presented the regularity of mild solutions for time fractional NS-equations. In the end, we presented an example.
Author Contributions
Methodology, M.A. and A.H.; validation, M.A.; formal analysis, M.A., A.H., F.H. and K.A.; investigation, K.A.; writing—original draft preparation, F.H.; writing—review and editing, M.A., A.H., F.H. and K.A.; supervision, A.H.; funding acquisition, M.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia [Grant No. 2248].
Data Availability Statement
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no data sets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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