Infinite-dimensional attractors for parabolic equations with p-Laplacian in heterogeneous medium

In this paper we give a detailed study of the global attractors for parabolic equations governed by the p-Laplacian in a heterogeneous medium. Not only the existence but also the infinite dimensionality of the global attractors is presented by showing that their ε-Kolmogorov entropy behaves as a polynomial of the variable 1/ε as ε tends to zero, which is not observed for non-degenerate parabolic equations. The upper and lower bounds for the Kolmogorov ε-entropy of infinite-dimensional attractors are also obtained.     

Infinite dimensional attractors for porous medium equations in heterogeneous medium

In this paper, we give a detailed study of the global attractors for porous medium equations in a heterogeneous medium. Not only the existence but also the infinite dimensionality of the global attractors is obtained by showing that their ?‐Kolmogorov entropy behaves as a polynomial of the variable 1 ∕ ? as ? tends to zero, which is not observed for non‐degenerate parabolic equations. The upper and lower bounds for the Kolmogorov ?‐entropy of infinite‐dimensional attractors are also obtained. We believe that the method developed in this paper has a general nature and can be applied to other classes of degenerate evolution equations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dynamics of a bio-reactor model with chemotaxis

Long time dynamics of solutions to a strongly coupled system of parabolic equations modeling the competition in bio-reactors with chemotaxis will be studied. In particular, we show that the dynamical system possesses a global attractor and that it is strongly uniformly persistent if the trivial steady state is unstable. Using a result of Smith and Waltman on perturbation of global attractors, we also show that the positive steady state is unique and globally attracting.     

Qualitative analysis of a coupled reaction-diffusion model in biology with time delays

Certain biochemical reaction can be modeled by a coupled system of time-delayed ordinary differential equations and linear parabolic partial differential equations. In a three-compartment model these equations are coupled through the boundary conditions. The aim of this paper is to give a qualitive analysis of this unusual coupled system. The analysis includes the existence and uniqueness of a global solution, explicit upper and lower bounds of the solution, and global stability of a steady-state solution. The global stability result is with respect to any nonnegative initial perturbation and is independent of the time delays in the process of reaction. Special attention is given to the Goodwin model for biochemical control of genes by a negative feedback mechanism with time delay and diffusion.     

Upper Semicontinuity and Kolmogorov ε-Entropy of Global Attractor for κ-Dimensional Lattice Dynamical System Corresponding to Klein-Gordon-SchrSdinger Equation

In this paper, we establish the existence of a global attractor for a coupled κ-dimensional lattice dynamical system governed by a discrete version of the Klein-Gordon-SchrSdinger Equation. An estimate of the upper bound of the Kohnogorov ε-entropy of the global attractor is made by a method of element decomposition and the covering property of a polyhedron by balls of radii ε in a finite dimensional space. Finally, a scheme to approximate the global attractor by the global attractors of finite-dimensional ordinary differential systems is presented .     

Stability and attractivity of periodic solutions of parabolic systems with time delays

This paper is concerned with the existence, stability, and global attractivity of time-periodic solutions for a class of coupled parabolic equations in a bounded domain. The problem under consideration includes coupled system of parabolic and ordinary differential equations, and time delays may appear in the nonlinear reaction functions. Our approach to the problem is by the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. The existence of time-periodic solutions is for a class of locally Lipschitz continuous reaction functions without any quasimonotone requirement using Schauder fixed point theorem, while the stability and attractivity analysis is for quasimonotone nondecreasing and mixed quasimonotone reaction functions using the monotone iterative scheme. The results for the general system are applied to the standard parabolic equations without time delay and to the corresponding ordinary differential system. Applications are also given to three Lotka-Volterra reaction diffusion model problems, and in each problem a sufficient condition on the reaction rates is obtained to ensure the stability and global attractivity of positive periodic solutions.     

Global dynamics and robustness of reversible autocatalytic reaction-diffusion systems

Global asymptotic dynamics of a representative cubic-autocatalytic reaction-diffusion system, the reversible Selkov equations, are investigated. This system features two pairs of oppositely signed nonlinear terms so that the asymptotic dissipative condition is not satisfied, which causes substantial difficulties in an attempt to attest that the longtime dynamics are asymptotically dissipative. An L² to H¹ global attractor of finite fractal dimension is shown to exist for the semiflow of the weak solutions of the reversible Selkov equations with the Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded domain of dimension n≤3. A new method of rescaling and grouping estimation is used to prove the absorbing property and the asymptotical compactness. Importantly, the upper semicontinuity (robustness) in the H¹ product space of the global attractors for the family of solution semiflows with respect to the reverse reaction rate as it tends to zero is proved through a new approach of transformative decomposition to overcome the barrier of the perturbed singularity between the reversible and non-reversible systems by showing the uniform dissipativity and the uniformly bounded evolution of the union of global attractors under the bundle of reversible and non-reversible semiflows.     

Finite-dimensional global attractors in Banach spaces

We provide bounds on the upper box-counting dimension of negatively invariant subsets of Banach spaces, a problem that is easily reduced to covering the image of the unit ball under a linear map by a collection of balls of smaller radius. As an application of the abstract theory we show that the global attractors of a very broad class of parabolic partial differential equations (semilinear equations in Banach spaces) are finite-dimensional.     

The Global Attractors for Damped Generalized Coupled Nonlinear Wave Equations

The existence of global attractors for the periodic initial value problem of damped generalized coupled nonlinear wave equations is proved. We also get the estimates of the upper bounds of Hausdorff and fractal dimensions for the global attractors by means of a uniformly priori estimates for time.     

WELL-POSEDNESS AND GLOBAL ATTRACTORS FOR LIQUID CRYSTALS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS

ABSTRACT

We study the coupled Navier-Stokes Ginzburg-Landau model of nematic liquid crystals introduced by F.H. Lin, which is a simplified version ofthe Ericksen-Leslie system. We generalize the model to compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, deriving the system from a variational principle, and provide a very simple proof of local well-posedness for this coupled system using a contraction mapping argument. We then prove that this system is globally well-posed and has compact global attractors when the dimension of the manifold M is two. A small data result in n dimensions follows easily. Finally, we introduce the Lagrangian averaged liquid crystal equations, which arise from averaging the Navier-Stokes fluid motion over small spatial scales in the variational principle. We show that this averaged system is globally well-posed and has compact global attractors even when M is three-dimensional.     

Semilinear parabolic problems in thin domains with a highly oscillatory boundary

In this paper, we study the behavior of the solutions of nonlinear parabolic problems posed in a domain that degenerates into a line segment (thin domain) which has an oscillating boundary. We combine methods from linear homogenization theory for reticulated structures and from the theory on nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems to obtain the limit problem for the elliptic and parabolic problems and analyze the convergence properties of the solutions and attractors of the evolutionary equations.     

Asymptotic behavior of the generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers equation

Cauchy’s problem for a generalization of the KdV–Burgers equation is considered in Sobolev spaces H¹(\mathbbR){H^1(\mathbb{R})} and H²(\mathbbR){H^2(\mathbb{R})}. We study its local and global solvability and the asymptotic behavior of solutions (in terms of the global attractors). The parabolic regularization technique is used in this paper which allows us to extend the strong regularity properties and estimates of solutions of the fourth order parabolic approximations onto their third order limit—the generalized Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers (KdVB) equation. For initial data in H²(\mathbbR){H^2(\mathbb{R})} we study the notion of viscosity solutions to KdVB, while for the larger H¹(\mathbbR){H^1(\mathbb{R})} phase space we introduce weak solutions to that problem. Finally, thanks to our general assumptions on the nonlinear term f guaranteeing that the global attractor is usually nontrivial (i.e., not reduced to a single stationary solution), we study an upper semicontinuity property of the family of global attractors corresponding to parabolic regularizations when the regularization parameter e{\epsilon} tends to 0⁺ (which corresponds the passage to the KdVB equation).     

Upper-semicontinuity of attractors for random lattice systems perturbed by small white noises

In this paper, we first present some conditions for the upper semicontinuity of perturbed random attractors to a limiting random attractor. Then we apply this result to establish the upper semicontinuity of random attractors for the first order stochastic lattice differential equations with random coupled coefficients and multiplicative/additive white noises in the weighted space of infinite sequences as the coefficient of the white noise term tends to zero.     

Upper‐Semicontinuity of Global Attractors for Reversible Schnackenberg Equations

Global asymptotic dynamics of a cubic‐autocatalytic reaction‐diffusion system, the reversible Schnackenberg equations, is investigated in this paper. A global attractor is shown to exist unconditionally for the semiflow of weak solutions with the Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded domain of dimension . The upper semicontinuity (robustness) of the global attractors for the family of solution semiflows with respect to the reverse reaction rate as it converges to zero is proved by showing the uniform dissipativity and the uniformly bounded evolution of the union of global attractors under the bundle of reversible and nonreversible semiflows to overcome the hurdle of semisingular perturbation.     

Linear Perturbations for the Vacuum Axisymmetric Einstein Equations

In axial symmetry, there is a gauge for Einstein equations such that the total mass of the spacetime can be written as a conserved, positive definite, integral on the spacelike slices. This property is expected to play an important role in the global evolution. In this gauge the equations reduce to a coupled hyperbolic–elliptic system which is formally singular at the axis. Due to the rather peculiar properties of the system, the local in time existence has proved to resist analysis by standard methods. To analyze the principal part of the equations, which may represent the main source of the difficulties, we study linear perturbation around the flat Minkowski solution in this gauge. In this article we solve this linearized system explicitly in terms of integral transformations in a remarkable simple form. This representation is well suited to obtain useful estimates to apply in the non-linear case.     

Coexistence and Asymptotic Periodicity in a Competition Model of Plankton Allelopathy

In this paper, the two species Lotka-Volterra competition model of plankton allelopathy from aquatic ecology is discussed. The authors study the existence of solutions to a strongly coupled elliptic system with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and consider the existence, stability and global attractivity of time-periodic solutions for a coupled parabolic equations in a bounded domain. Their results show that this model possesses at least one coexistence state if cross-diffusions and self-diffusions are weak. The existence of the positive T-periodic solutions and the global stability as well as the global attractivity for the parabolic system are also given.     

Long time behavior of solutions to semilinear parabolic equations involving strongly degenerate elliptic differential operators

In this paper we consider initial boundary value problem for semilinear parabolic equations involving strongly degenerate elliptic differential operators. Depending on the concrete types of nonlinearity we establish the existence of compact connected global attractors of semigroups generated by the problem under consideration.     

Global attractors for the initial value problems of Cohn-Hilliard equations on compact manifolds

In this paper we establish some theorems which are concerned with the equivalent norms of Sobolev spaces on a Riemannian manifold. Using the theorems we prove the existence of global attractors for the initial value problem of Cahn-Hilliard equations. The estimates of the upper bounds of Hausdorff and fractal dimensions for the global attractors are also obtained.     

一类非自治时滞抛物方程的一致吸引子

本文研究了一类具有平移有界非自治外力的时滞抛物方程的动力学性态,得到了其整体解的存在和唯一性.利用时间符号理论,并通过构造乘积空间中的紧吸收集,在时间符号空间非紧的情形下得到了一致吸引子的存在性.     

Collapse of attractors for ODEs under small random perturbations

This paper concerns comparisons between attractors for random dynamical systems and their corresponding noiseless systems. It is shown that if a random dynamical system has negative time trajectories that are transient or explode with probability one, then the random attractor cannot contain any open set. The result applies to any Polish space and when applied to autonomous stochastic differential equations with additive noise requires only a mild dissipation of the drift. Additionally, following observations from numerical simulations in a previous paper, analytical results are presented proving that the random global attractors for a class of gradient-like stochastic differential equations consist of a single random point. Comparison with the noiseless system reveals that arbitrarily small non-degenerate additive white noise causes the deterministic global attractor, which may have non-zero dimension, to ‘collapse’. Unlike existing results of this type, no order preserving property is necessary.