Abstract
The white-noise-driven KdV-type Boussinesq system is a class of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) that describe nonlinear wave propagation under the influence of random noise—specifically white noise—and generalize features from both the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) and Boussinesq equations. We consider a Cauchy problem for two stochastic systems based on the KdV-type Boussinesq equations. For these systems, we determine sufficient conditions to ensure that this problem is locally and globally well posed for initial data in Sobolev spaces by the linear and bilinear estimates and their modification together with the Banach fixed point.
Keywords:
stochastic; KdV–Boussinesq equation; white noise; Bourgain space; nonlinear equations; energy and industry; well-posedness MSC:
60H15; 49K40; 60H40
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Let . The classical Boussinesq equation, derived by Joseph Boussinesq (1872), is a nonlinear dispersive partial differential equation given by
It is a wave-type equation of second order in time, capturing both nonlinear steepening and dispersive spreading. If it is linearized and scaled under unidirectional wave assumptions, the KdV equation is recovered. The equation
includes and models important phenomena in the propagation of nonlinear waves and is applied in energy and industry; this equation is named the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation for and the modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equation for . This model describes the growth of monodimensional nonlinear waves in media with and without dissipation. Similar issues were previously considered in other articles [1,2]. The dynamics of solutions in the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equations and the modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equations have been studied quite well due to the complete integrability of these equations. The solutions are stable wave formations that retain their shape after interacting with each other and with wave packets. The description of the solution interaction process for mKdV is given in many works [3,4,5], and for KdV, the main results were published in the 1970s [6], although some effects have been newly discovered since then [7].
The KdV-type Boussinesq system models long, small-amplitude surface waves in shallow water. It can be written in many forms; the simplest one is
where is the surface elevation and is the horizontal velocity. With the addition of white noise, the system becomes stochastically perturbed as follows:
where are space–time white noise and are noise intensities. Until the mid-1960s, the study of nonlinear partial differential equations was carried out mainly in four directions: existence and uniqueness theorems; construction of solutions of nonlinear equations with weak nonlinearity by perturbation theory methods; study of some classes of self-similar solutions; and numerical modeling. Certain methods are used, such as functional Analysis and Semigroup Theory in Sobolev space estimates and fixed-point arguments; Stochastic Calculus (Itô/SPDE Techniques), where energy is estimated by using Itô’s formula; Galerkin approximations to construct solutions; the Krylov–Bogoliubov method; or Doob’s theorem. At present, along with these methods, the linear and bilinear estimates and their modifications together with the Banach fixed point are also used for a wide class of nonlinear evolution equations. These methods were initiated by [8,9,10,11,12], in which the solution of the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation (coupled system) was described in terms of the quantitative and qualitative properties. In 1974, the works of Novikov [13] and Lax [14] laid the foundation for a new direction in the finite-zone integration method: finding periodic and almost periodic solutions of KdV-type equations. The emergence of this direction, which was designated the method of finite-zone (algebraic–geometric) integration, is associated primarily with the names of Dubrovin, Novikov, Matveev, and Krichever; see [15,16,17]. Both the Korteweg–de Vries equation and the Boussinesq equation for wave propagation in shallow water have algebraic–geometric solutions. [18,19,20,21], and therefore, from our point of view, an interesting question is what has a stronger effect on the shape of the wave process—one of the parameters of the curve used to construct the solutions, or the type of nonlinear wave equation. Recall that the Korteweg–de Vries equation describes wave propagation in one direction, while the Boussinesq equation is the simplest nonlinear wave equation describing wave propagation in both directions; see [22,23,24,25].
In a convenient set of coordinates, the stochastic coupled KdV-type Boussinesq equation is written as
Here, the surface elevation and horizontal velocity are random processes defined for ; the operator is linear; and B represents two-parameter Brownian motion on , given a zero-mean Gaussian process in which the correlation function is defined as
We begin with function spaces. Let represent the usual Sobolev space, defined by
Here, denotes the spatial Fourier transform
Similarly, for the Bourgain spaces and are defined by the norms
where denotes the space–time Fourier transform
For , we also use the spaces and of restrictions to the time interval of functions in and . They are endowed with the norms
Because we are dealing with systems of equations, we will need to consider product function spaces. The product spaces are defined as
and
where
and
Finally, we denote as
the space of Hilbert–Schmidt operators from to with
where is an orthonormal basis in .
With this notation in place, we may finally state the results to be proved. In the subsequent work, let be a fixed probability space adapted to a filtration ; see [26,27,28]. For Equation (1), we will prove the following local and global results.
To conclude our preliminary discussion, we remark that we will use the notation to denote for some constant depending on . If c is an absolute constant, we shall write .
2. Linear and Bilinear Estimates
To prove the next main results, we will need to introduce several important estimates. To state these estimates, the Itô form of the system in (1) is given, namely,
where is a cylindrical Wiener process on , which can also be given by
Here, is an orthonormal basis of , and is a sequence of mutually independent real Brownian motions in a fixed probability space. System (2) is supplemented with the initial conditions
We consider the system
System (4) can be written as a stochastic Itô integral
where
By the unitarity of and , it can be easily shown that and are in only if is a Hilbert–Schmidt operator from to .
We will solve (2)–(3) by considering a related mild form.
To construct mild solutions, we will need the following estimates. They will be the key to the proofs.
Proposition 1
(Linear Estimates [29]). For any , we have
Furthermore, if
and , then
and
Lemma 1
(Bilinear Estimates [29]). Let , and , such that
hold for any .
We choose a function such that
with . Here, we mention that
where
We show the following lemma to deal with stochastic convolution.
Lemma 2.
Proof.
Define the functions
Then,
and
The proof is similar for f and g, and so we will restrict our argument to f only. According to the expansion
of the cylindrical Wiener process and (7), we have
where
From the Itô isometry formula, we have
To estimate , we obtain
We separately estimate , and as follows:
By (8) and the fact that , we have
Similarly,
Thus, we have
where
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3. Local Well-Posedness
We need the following theorem to prove the local existence of a solution.
Theorem 1
([30]). Assume that generates a contraction semi-group and
Then, the process has a continuous modification, and there exists a constant such that
Our first main result is as follows.
Theorem 2.
Assume that , , , and b is close enough to . If
for and are -measurable, then, for , there exist a stopping time and a unique solution of (1) on such that
Proof.
To prove the local well-posedness of (1) given in Theorem 2, we define
and
Now, assume that
Therefore,
Then, (11) is equivalent to
Next, we define the ball as
At this stage, our aim is to prove that is a contraction mapping in . According to Proposition 1, Lemma 1 and Lemma 2, we obtain
thus,
Therefore, for
we obtain
and thus,
Let us choose such that
where
It is easily checked that maps to itself and is a strict contraction in for the norm :
Hence, has a unique fixed point in that is a solution of (12) on .
Now, observe that
We complete the proof by showing that
We take into account that , .
By the Sobolev embedding theorem, we have
As in Theorem 1, we operate under the condition that and the fact that and are a unitary group in ; the use of Theorem 1 implies that
By Lemma 1, we have
and
for any prolongation of u in
and of v in
where
Therefore,
Since , it follows that
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4. Global Well-Posedness of KdV-Type Boussinesq System in
Our second main result reads as follows.
Theorem 3.
Let
be -measurable initial data, and let . Then, the solution u given by Theorem 2 is global and satisfies
Proof.
We assume here that
and that the operator
As in [31], we follow the same argument to prove that the solution can be continued on . To this end, we take a sequence
such that
and another sequence
such that
It is well known from Lemma 3.2 in [31] that there exists a unique solution
We then use Itô’s formula on , and a martingale inequality that can be seen in Theorem 3.14 of [30]; as a result, we have
We deduce that
Then
where it is weakly star-convergent to a function , which satisfies
We define the mapping in the same way as ; it is not hard to see that is a strict contraction uniformly on where
and
Owing to the fixed point theorem, we have a unique coupled function
where
and
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Author Contributions
Writing—original draft preparation, A.B.; writing—review and editing, S.M.M. and K.B.; visualization, S.S.A. and K.Z.; supervision, K.Z. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work is supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2503).
Data Availability Statement
The data are contained within the article.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2503).
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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