Uniform exponential attractors for second order non-autonomous lattice dynamical systems

In this paper, the existence of a uniform exponential attractor for a second order non-autonomous lattice dynamical system with quasiperiodic symbols acting on a closed bounded set is considered. Firstly, the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the considered systems which generate a family of continuous processes is shown, and the existence of a uniform bounded absorbing sets for the processes is proved. Secondly, a semigroup defined on a extended space is introduced, and the Lipschitz continuity, α-contraction and squeezing property of this semigroup are proved. Finally, the existence of a uniform exponential attractor for the family of processes associated with the studied lattice dynamical systems is obtained.     

Existence of backwards-compact pullback attractors for non-autonomous lattice dynamical systems

A pullback attractor is called backward compact if the union of attractors over the past time is pre-compact. We show that this kind of attractor exists for the first-order non-autonomous lattice dynamical system when the external force is backwards tempered and backwards asymptotically tail-null.     

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.     

Robust exponential attractors for a phase-field system with memory

H.G. Rotstein et al. proposed a nonconserved phase-field system characterized by the presence of memory terms both in the heat conduction and in the order parameter dynamics. These hereditary effects are represented by time convolution integrals whose relaxation kernels k and h are nonnegative, smooth and decreasing. Rescaling k and h properly, we obtain a system of coupled partial integrodifferential equations depending on two relaxation times ɛ and σ. When ɛ and σ tend to 0, the formal limiting system is the well-known nonconserved phase-field model proposed by G. Caginalp. Assuming the exponential decay of the relaxation kernels, the rescaled system, endowed with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, generates a dissipative strongly continuous semigroup S_{ɛ, σ}(t) on a suitable phase space, which accounts for the past histories of the temperature as well as of the order parameter. Our main result consists in proving the existence of a family of exponential attractors for S_{ɛ, σ}(t), with ɛ, σ ∈ [0, 1], whose symmetric Hausdorff distance from tends to 0 in an explicitly controlled way.     

Autonomous and non-autonomous attractors for differential equations with delays

The asymptotic behaviour of some types of retarded differential equations, with both variable and distributed delays, is analysed. In fact, the existence of global attractors is established for different situations: with and without uniqueness, and for both autonomous and non-autonomous cases, using the classical notion of attractor and the recently new concept of pullback one, respectively.     

Random attractors for second-order stochastic lattice dynamical systems

In this paper, the asymptotic behavior of second-order stochastic lattice dynamical systems is considered. We firstly show the existence of an absorbing set. Then an estimate on tails of the solutions is derived when the time is large enough, which ensures the asymptotic compactness of the random dynamical system. Finally, the existence of the random attractor is provided.     

Pullback attractors for asymptotically compact non-autonomous dynamical systems

First, we introduce the concept of pullback asymptotically compact non-autonomous dynamical system as an extension of the similar concept in the autonomous framework. Our definition is different from that of asymptotic compactness already used in the theory of random and non-autonomous dynamical systems (as developed by Crauel, Flandoli, Kloeden, Schmalfuss, amongst others) which means the existence of a (random or time-dependent) family of compact attracting sets. Next, we prove a result ensuring the existence of a pullback attractor for a non-autonomous dynamical system under the general assumptions of pullback asymptotic compactness and the existence of a pullback absorbing family of sets. This attractor is minimal and, in most practical applications, it is unique. Finally, we illustrate the theory with a 2D Navier–Stokes model in an unbounded domain.     

Random attractors for stochastic lattice dynamical systems in weighted spaces

In this paper, we first provide some sufficient conditions for the existence of global compact random attractors for general random dynamical systems in weighted space (p?1) of infinite sequences. Then we consider the existence of global compact random attractors in weighted space for stochastic lattice dynamical systems with random coupled coefficients and multiplicative/additive white noises. Our results recover many existing ones on the existence of global random attractors for stochastic lattice dynamical systems with multiplicative/additive white noises in regular l² space of infinite sequences.     

Finite fractal dimension of pullback attractors for non-autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes equations in some unbounded domains

We study the asymptotic behaviour of non-autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes equations in unbounded domains for which a Poincaré inequality holds. In particular, we give sufficient conditions for their pullback attractor to have finite fractal dimension. The existence of pullback attractors in this framework comes from the existence of bounded absorbing sets of pullback asymptotically compact processes [T. Caraballo, G. ?ukaszewicz, J. Real, Pullback attractors for asymptotically compact nonautonomous dynamical systems, Nonlinear Anal. 64 (3) (2006) 484–498]. We show that, under suitable conditions, the method of Lyapunov exponents in [P. Constantin, C. Foias, R. Temam, Attractors representing turbulent flows, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1984) [5]] for the dimension of attractors can be developed in this new context.     

Exponential attractors for first-order lattice dynamical systems

In l², we investigate the existence of an exponential attractor for the solution semigroup of a first-order lattice dynamical system acting on a closed bounded positively invariant set which needs not to be compact since l² is infinite dimensional. Up to our knowledge, this is the first time to examine the existence of exponential attractors for lattice dynamical systems.     

Periodic non-autonomous second-order dynamical systems

We study the existence of periodic solutions for a second-order non-autonomous dynamical system. We give three sets of hypotheses which guarantee the existence of non-constant solutions. We were able to weaken the hypotheses considerably from those used previously for such systems. We employ a saddle point theorem using linking methods.     

Uniform attractors for the closed process and applications to the reaction-diffusion equation with dynamical boundary condition

In this paper, we first introduce the concept of a closed process in a Banach space, and we obtain the structure of a uniform attractor of the closed process by constructing a skew product-flow on the extended phase space. Then, the properties of the kernel section of closed process are investigated. Moreover, we prove the existence and structure of the uniform attractor for the reaction-diffusion equation with a dynamical boundary condition in L^p without any restriction on the growth order of the nonlinear term.     

Sell’s conjecture for non-autonomous dynamical systems

This paper is dedicated to the study of the G. Sell’s conjecture for general non-autonomous dynamical systems. We give a positive answer for this conjecture and we apply this result to different classes of non-autonomous evolution equations: Ordinary Differential Equations, Functional Differential Equations and Semi-linear Parabolic Equations.     

Asymptotically finite dimensional pullback behaviour of non-autonomous PDEs

The asymptotic behaviour of general non-autonomous partial differential equations can be described using the concept of pullback attractor. This is, under suitable hypotheses, a time-dependent family of finite-dimensional compact sets. In this work we investigate how this finite-dimensional dynamics on the attractor determines the asymptotic behaviour of non-autonomous PDEs.     

Pullback attractors for a semilinear heat equation on time-varying domains

The existence of a pullback attractor is established for the nonautonomous dynamical system generated by the weak solutions of a semilinear heat equation on time-varying domains with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is assumed that the spatial domains Ot in RN are obtained from a bounded base domain O by a C²-diffeomorphism, which is continuously differentiable in the time variable, and are contained, in the past, in a common bounded domain.     

Uniform exponential attractor for nonautonomous partly dissipative lattice dynamical system

In this paper,we consider the existence of a uniform exponential attractor for the nonautonomous partly dissipative lattice dynamical system with quasiperiodic external forces.     

Global attractors for singular perturbations of the Cahn-Hilliard equations

We consider the singular perturbations of two boundary value problems, concerning respectively the viscous and the nonviscous Cahn-Hilliard equations in one dimension of space. We show that the dynamical systems generated by these two problems admit global attractors in the phase space , and that these global attractors are at least upper-semicontinuous with respect to the vanishing of the perturbation parameter.