H1-Random Attractors and Asymptotic Smoothing Effect of Solutions for Stochastic Boussinesq Equations with Fluctuating Dynamical Boundary Conditions
Abstract
This work is concerned with the random dynamics of two-dimensional stochastic Boussinesq system with dynamical boundary condition. The white noises affect the system through a dynamical boundary condition. Using a method based on the theory of omega-limit compactness of a random dynamical system, we prove that the L2-random attractor for the generated random dynamical system is exactly the H1-random attractor. This improves a recent conclusion derived by Brune et al. on the existence of the L2-random attractor for the same system.
1. Introduction
The Boussinesq equations are a coupled system of the Navier-Stokes equations and the scalar transport equation for fluid salinity, temperature, or density. These Boussinesq equations models various phenomena in environmental, geophysical and climate system, for example, oceanic density currents and the thermohaline circulation; see, for example, [1–3]. In this paper, the scalar quantity in the considered Boussinesq system is salinity, with dynamical boundary condition for the salinity.
Qualitatively, the Boussinesq system (1) emphasizes the random dynamical boundary condition which modes the interaction of boundary and the domain. In particular, if U describes the temperature then the heat exchange between physical domain and its boundary can be modeled; see, for example, [3]. For this Boussinesq system (1), the large deviation principle via a weak convergence approach is studied in [5], recently. In [4], they derived a priori estimates for the existence of random absorbing sets and showed that the random dynamical system (RDS) generated by the solution of (1) had a random attractor in L2 space. When the random dynamical boundary condition in (1) is replaced by the nonhomogeneous boundary condition, [6, 7] proved the existences of random attractors for this system with multiplicative noise and additive noises in L2 space, respectively. For the study of the random attractor about other models integrated the Navier-Stokes equations, we refer to [8] for the MHD equations.
In recent years, the theory of random attractors for some concrete dissipative stochastic partial differential equations has been studied by many authors; see, for example, [6, 8–12]; ever since [13, 14] launched their fundamental work on the RDS. Such an attractor, which generalizes nontrivially the global attractors well developed in [15–18] and so forth, is a compact invariant random set which attracts every orbit in the phase space. It is uniquely determined by attracting deterministic compact sets of phase space [19]. In order to obtain the existence of random attractors, one always need to show the existence of a compact random absorbing set in the sense of absorption [20]. This can be achieved by employing the standard Sobolev compact embedding of several functional spaces, when the generated RDSs are defined in some bounded domains; see, for example, [6–10, 20] and references cited there.
In this paper, we are interested in the existence of random attractors of the Boussinesq system (1) in H1 space which is stronger than L2 space. It is pointed out that if the initial data belongs to L2, the solution to the system (1) enters into the space L2∩H1 and has no higher regularity, see [4]. Hence the Sobolev compact embedding cannot be employed in H1. Here, we try to overcome the obstacle of compact imbedding by using the notion of omega-limits compactness, which was initiated in [12, 21] in the framework of RDS. This type of compactness is equivalent to the asymptotic compactness [22, 23] in some spaces and can be proved by check the flattening condition; see [21]. More precisely, we prove the existence of the (L2, H1)-random attractor for this RDS (for the bispaces random attractors; the reader is referred to [11, 16–18]). To this end, a so qualitatively new method is necessary, for instance, to derive a priori estimates of the solutions such that the flattening condition holds in H1 space and then the necessary omega-limits compactness for the RDS in H1 space is followed; see Lemma 12 in Section 4. The main advantage of this technique is that we need not to estimate the solutions in functional spaces of higher regularity to demonstrate the existence of compact random absorbing set which does not work in this case. This method has been used recently to obtain the existence of random attractors in H1 space for the stochastic reaction-diffusion equations [24, 25].
The conclusion in this study shows that the L2-random attractor is qualitatively an H1-random attractor. This implies that the solutions to (1) become eventually more smoothing than the initial data.
The outline of this paper is as follows. Section 2 presents some functional settings for the Boussinesq system. Section 3 lists the conditions and the main conclusion of this note. In Section 4, we prove some estimates for the solution orbits in ℍ and 𝕍and then prove our main conclusion.
2. Functional Settings
We recall some function spaces and operators that we will be used in the following discussion.
3. Existence of Random Attractor in 𝕍
In order to model the noise in the initial problem (1), we need to define a metric dynamical system (MDS) which is a group of measure preserving transformations on a probability space. For the definition of the MDS we refer to [28, 29] and so forth.
Lemma 1. Suppose that the covariance operator Q of the Wiener process ω has a finite trace; that is, Q satisfies that
Here we denote the solution to (23) by V(t, ω, V0(ω)), V(t, ω) or more briefly V(t). By Lemma 4.7 in [4], the solution of the evolution equation (23) generates a continuous measurable RDS ψ in ℍ given by ψ(t, ω)V0(ω) = V(t, ω, V0(ω)). Put U(t, ω, U0(ω)) = V(t, ω, U0(ω) − Z(ω)) + Z(θtω). Then U(t, ω, U0(ω)) or briefly U(t) is a solution to (23) with initial value U0(ω).
As for the general theory of random dynamical systems we may refer to [28, 31] for details.
The main conclusion of this study states the following.
Theorem 2. One supposes that (21) holds. Set that
Fortunately, Theorem 2 can be proved by checking the omega-limit compactness in the space 𝕍, which is based on the viewpoint of Kuratowski measure of noncompactness. This kind of compactness can be easily obtained by showing the flattening condition, see [21].
For clarification, we state some general concepts used in the sequel. Let X be a Banach space with norm ∥·∥X and 𝒟 be the collection of all random subsets of X.
Definition 3 (see [21].)An RDS φ on X over an MDS is said to be omega-limit compact if for every ε > 0 and B = {B(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟, there exists T = T(ε, B, ω) such that for all t ≥ T,
Definition 4 (see [21].)An RDS φ on X over an MDS is said to possess the flattening condition if for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω and every B = {B(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟, there exist T = T(B, ω, ε) > 0 and a finite dimensional space X1 of X such that for a bounded projector P : X → X1,
Definition 5 (see [29].)(i) A random variable X ∈ ℝ+ over an MDS is tempered if for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω,
(ii) A random set B = {B(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟 is called tempered if R(ω) = sup x∈B(ω)∥x∥X is a tempered random variable.
Definition 6. A random set {K(ω)} ω∈Ω is an 𝒟-random absorbing set for RDS φ over an MDS if for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω and every B = {B(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟, there exists T = T(B, ω) > 0 such that for all t ≥ T,
For our problem, X = 𝕍 and 𝒟 is the collection of tempered subsets of ℍ. The finite dimensional space X1 = 𝕍m = span {e1, e2, …, em} and the bounded operator P = Pm for a sufficient large m, where ei (i = 1,2, …, m) and Pm are defined in Section 2.
4. The Proofs of Main Result
To prove Theorem 2, we need a series of lemmas. First we give a useful lemma similar to the classic Gronwall lemma (see [15]).
Lemma 7. Assume that y, y′, and h are three locally integrable functions and y, h nonnegative on [a, ∞) such that for s ≥ a,
Proof. Let t ≤ s ≤ t + r. We multiply (36) by eb(s−t) and the resulting inequality reads
Lemma 8. There exist positive constants K and Kϵ such that the followings hold:
Proof. The inequality (40) is the same as the inequality (18) at page 1112 in [4]. The inequality (41) is a combination of the formulas (15) and (16) at pages 1110-1111 in [4] with a tiny modification. Following a same calculation as page 1114 in [4] we can obtain (42).
Lemma 9. Assume that 𝔼M < 0. Let B = {B(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟. Then for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω, there exist random radii ϱ1(ω) and ϱ1(ω) and constant T = T(B, ω) > 0 such that for all t ≥ T, the solution V(t, ω, U0(ω) − Z(ω)) of problem (23) with U0 ∈ B(ω) satisfies that for every l ∈ [t, t + 1]:
Proof. We replace t with l, and ω with θ−t−1ω in (40) to produce that for l ∈ [t, t + 1],
Next, we show (46). Integrating (41) from t to t + 1 with t ≥ T, where T is in (53), we get
Lemma 10. Assume that 𝔼M < 0. Let B = {B(ω)}ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟. Then for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω, there exist random radium R(ω) and constant T = T(B, ω) > 0 such that for all t ≥ T, the solution V(t, ω, U0(ω) − Z(ω)) of problem (23) with U0 ∈ B(ω) satisfies that for every l ∈ [t, t + 1],
Proof. Using the classic Gronwall’s lemma (see [15]) to the inequality (42) on the interval [s, l] with t ≤ s ≤ l ≤ t + 1, we get that
Lemma 11. Assume that 𝔼M < 0. Let B = {B(ω)}ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟. Then for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω and every ε > 0, there are N = N(ε, ω), K = K(ω), and T = T(ε, B, ω) > 0 such that for all t ≥ T and m ≥ N, the solution V(t, ω, U0(ω) − Z(ω)) of problem (23) with U0 ∈ B(ω) satisfies that
Proof . Multiplying (23) by AVm with respect to the L2 inner product leads us to
Lemma 12. Assume that 𝔼M < 0. Then the RDS φ corresponding to the Boussinesq system (1) is omega-limit compact in 𝕍; that is, for every ε > 0 and an arbitrary B = {B(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟, there is an T = T(ε, B, ω) > 0 such that for ℙ-a.s.ω ∈ Ω,
Proof. By Lemma 11, for every U0(ω) ∈ B(ω), there exist constantsand T = T(ε, B, ω) and N1 ∈ ℕ such that for all t ≥ T and m ≥ N1,and
Proof of Theorem 2. By Theorem 5.1 in [4], the RDS φ associated with the Boussinesq system (1) admits a unique compact random attractorin ℍ. Furthermore {𝒜H(ω)} ω∈Ω ∈ 𝒟. Put
For ω ∈ Ω, the following is given:
We divide the proof into three steps.
Step 1 (compactness). By Lemma 4.5 (v) in [12] and the omega-limit compactness of φ in 𝕍 (from Lemma 12), we have
Step 2 (invariant property). By (87) and (88) it is easy to see that for ω ∈ Ω,
Step 3 (attracting property). Suppose that (29) does not hold. Then there exists δ > 0,and tn → ∞ such that
Note that the collection 𝒟 considered also includes all deterministic bounded subsets in 𝕍. Then the uniqueness for {𝒜𝕍(ω)} ω∈Ω is followed by Theorem 4.3 in [19].
Conflict of Interests
The author declares that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the China Natural Science Fund Grant (no. 11071199) and the Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (Grant no. KJ120515).