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A non-local problem with discontinuous matching condition for loaded mixed type equation involving the Caputo fractional derivative
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2016, Article number: 241 (2016)
Abstract
This research work is devoted to investigations of the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a non-local boundary value problem with discontinuous matching condition for the loaded equation. Considering parabolic-hyperbolic type equations involves the Caputo fractional derivative and loaded part joins in Riemann-Liouville integrals. The uniqueness of a solution is proved by the method of integral energy and the existence is proved by the method of integral equations.
1 Introduction and formulation of a problem
It is well known that fractional derivatives have been successfully applied to problems in system biology [1], physics [2–5] and hydrology [6, 7]. Physical models fractional differential operators have recently renewed attention from scientist which is mainly due to applications as models for physical phenomena exhibiting anomalous diffusion.
Note that investigations of fractional analogs of main ODE and PDEs appear as a result of the mathematic models for real-life processes [8], and they have recently been proved to be valuable tools in the modeling of many phenomena in various fields of science and engineering [9, 10].
In the monographs of Kilbas et al. [11], Miller and Ross [12], Podlubny [13], and Samko et al. [14] we can see significant development of fractional differential equations.
Very recently some basic theory for the initial boundary value problem (BVP)s of fractional differential equations involving a Riemann-Liouville differential operator of order \(0 < \alpha \le 1\) has been discussed by Lakshmikantham and Vatsala [15, 16]. In a series of papers (see [17, 18]) the authors considered some classes of initial value problems for functional differential equations involving Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional derivatives of order \(0 < \alpha \le 1\).
It is well known that most fractional differential equations do not have exact analytic solutions, so approximation and numerical techniques must be used. The numerical solutions based on finite difference methods and several spectral algorithms for fractional differential equations were reported in Refs. [19–25].
It should be noted that problems for a class of fractional differential system and for the non-line differential equations with integral conditions were investigated in [26–30] and BVPs for the mixed type equations involving the Caputo and the Riemann-Liouville fractional differential operators were investigated by many authors; see for instance [31–33].
BVPs discounting matching conditions for the loaded equations with fractional derivative have not been investigated yet.
This paper deals the existence and uniqueness of a solution of the non-local problem with discontinuous matching condition for a loaded mixed type equation:
involving the Caputo fractional derivative operator [34]:
where \(0 < \alpha, \beta,\gamma < 1\).
Definition
The Riemann-Liouville integral-differential operator of fractional order α (\(\alpha \in R\)), starting from the point a, is represented as follows [34]:
Definition
The Caputo differential operator of fractional order α (\(\alpha > 0\)) is represented as follows [34]:
Let us take Ω, a domain, bounded with segments \(:A_{1}A_{2} = \{ (x,y): x = 1, 0 < y < h\}\), \(B_{1}B_{2} = \{ (x,y): x = 0, 0 < y < h\}\), \(B_{2}A_{2} = \{ (x,y): y = h, 0 < x < 1\}\) at the \(y > 0\), and characteristics: \(A_{1}C: x - y = 1\); \(B_{1}C: x + y = 0\) of equation (1) at \(y < 0\), where \(A_{1} ( 1;0 )\), \(A_{2} ( 1;h )\), \(B_{1} ( 0;0 )\), \(B_{2} ( 0;h )\), \(C ( \frac{1}{2}; - \frac{1}{2} )\).
Introduce the notations: \(\theta (x) = \frac{x + 1}{2} + i \cdot \frac{x - 1}{2}\), \(i^{2} = - 1\). We have
In the domain of Ω the following problem is investigated.
Problem I
Find a solution \(u(x,y)\) of equation (1) from the following class of functions:
satisfying the boundary conditions
and the gluing condition:
where \(\varphi (y)\), \(\psi (y)\), \(a(x)\), \(b(x)\), \(c(x)\), \(d(x)\), and \(\lambda (x)\) (\(\lambda (x) \ne 0\)) are given functions.
2 Results and discussion
The uniqueness of solution of Problem I .
In the sequel, we assume that \(q(x,y) = - q_{1}(x + y)q_{2}(x - y)\). In fact, equation (1) at \(y \le 0\) and on the characteristics coordinate \(\xi = x + y\) and \(\eta = x - y\) in summary looks like:
Let us denote \(u(x,0) = \tau (x)\), \(0 \le x \le 1\); \(u_{y}(x, - 0) = \nu^{ -} (x)\), \(0 < x < 1\);
It is well known that a solution of the Cauchy problem for equation (1) in the domain \(\Omega^{ -}\) can be represented as follows:
After using condition (6) and taking (3) into account from (9) we will get
where \(\tilde{q}_{2}(x) = \int_{x}^{1} q_{2}(\eta )\,d\eta\).
Considering the notations and gluing condition (7) we have
Further from equation (1) at \(y \to + 0\) taking (2), (11) into account, and
we get [28]
Theorem 1
If the following conditions are satisfied:
then the solution \(u(x,y)\) of Problem I is unique.
Proof
It is well known that, if a homogeneous problem has only a trivial solution, then we can state that the original problem has a unique solution. To this aim we assume that Problem I has two solutions, then denoting the difference of these as \(u(x,y)\) we will get an appropriate homogeneous problem.
We multiply equation (12) by \(\tau (x)\) and integrate from 0 to 1:
We will investigate the integral
Taking (10) into account \(d(x) = 0\) we get
Considering \(\tau (1) = 0\), \(\tau (0) = 0\) (deduced from the conditions (4), (5) in the homogeneous case) and on the base of the formula [35] we have
After some simplifications from (16) we will get
Thus, due to conditions (13), (14) from (17) we infer that \(\tau (x) \equiv 0\). Hence, based on the solution of the first boundary problem for equation (1) [32, 33] by using conditions (4) and (5) we will get \(u(x,y) \equiv 0\) in \(\overline{\Omega}^{ +}\). Further, from the functional relations (10), taking into account \(\tau (x) \equiv 0\), we deduce that \(\nu^{ -} (x) \equiv 0\). Consequently, based on the solution (9) we obtain \(u(x,y) \equiv 0\) in a closed domain \(\overline{\Omega}^{ -}\). □
The existence of a solution of Problem I .
Theorem 2
If conditions (13), (14) are satisfied and
then the solution of the investigated problem exists.
Proof
Taking (10) into account, from equation (12) we will obtain
where
The solution of equation (20) together with the conditions
has the form
where
Further, considering (21) and using (3) from (24) we will get
where
After some simplifications (26) we will rewrite our expression in the form
i.e., in summary, we have the integral equation
Here
Due to the class (18), (19) of the given functions and after some evaluations, from (30), (31) and (27), (29) we will conclude that \(\vert K(x,t) \vert \le \mbox{const} \), \(\vert f_{1}(x) \vert \le \mbox{const} \).
Since the kernel \(K(x,t)\) is continuous and the function on the right-hand side \(F(x)\) is continuously differentiable, we can write the solution of integral equation (28) via the resolvent-kernel:
where \(\Re (x,t)\) is the resolvent-kernel of \(K(x,t)\).
The unknown functions \(\nu^{ -} (x)\) and \(\nu^{ +} (x)\) we will find accordingly from (10) and (11):
and \(\nu^{ +} (x) = \lambda (x)\nu^{ -} (x)\).
Considering the solution of Problem I in the domain \(\Omega^{ +}\) we write our expression as follows [33, 36]:
Here \(G_{0}(x - \xi,y) = \frac{1}{\Gamma (1 - \alpha )}\int_{0}^{y} \eta^{ - \alpha} G(x,y,\xi,\eta )\,d\eta\),
Here the Green’s function of the first boundary problem equation (1) in the domain \(\Omega^{ +}\) with the Riemanne-Liouville fractional differential operator instead of the Caputo ones [34],
is a Wright type function [36]. □
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Sadarangani, K., Abdullaev, O.K. A non-local problem with discontinuous matching condition for loaded mixed type equation involving the Caputo fractional derivative. Adv Differ Equ 2016, 241 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-016-0969-1
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Keywords
- loaded equation
- parabolic-hyperbolic type
- Caputo fractional derivative
- existence and uniqueness of solution
- non-local condition
- discontinuous matching condition
- integral energy
- integral equations