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Approximation to the global solution of generalized Zakharov equations in \(\mathbf{R}^{2}\)
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2018, Article number: 219 (2018)
Abstract
We consider the initial value problem for the two-dimensional generalized Zakharov equations which model the propagation of Langmuir waves in plasmas. It is obtained that the solutions of the two-dimensional generalized Zakharov equations converge as \(\alpha\to0\) to a solution of the Zakharov equations. Both weak and strong solutions are considered.
1 Introduction
Zakharov derived a set of coupled nonlinear wave equations describing the interaction between high-frequency Langmuir waves and low-frequency ion-acoustic waves at the classical level [1]. The usual Zakharov system defined in space time \(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}\) is given by
where E is the envelope of the high-frequency electric field, and n is the plasma density measured from its equilibrium value.
Since 1972, this system has been the subject of a large number of studies [2–8]. Glangetas and Merle considered blow-up solutions of Zakharov equation in space dimension two. They proved various concentration properties of these solutions: existence, characterization of concentration mass, nonexistence of minimal concentration mass, and instability of periodic solutions [7, 8]. Ginibre, Tsutsumi, and Velo studied the local Cauchy problem in time for the Zakharov system governing Langmuir turbulence, with initial data \((u(0), n(0), \partial_{t} n(0))\in H^{k}\times H^{l} \times H^{l-1}\), in arbitrary space dimension. They proved that the Zakharov system is locally well-posed for a variety of values of \((k, l)\) [6].
The generalized Zakharov equation has also received the attention of many mathematicians [9–18]. Borhanifar et al. obtained generalized solitonary solutions and periodic solutions of the generalized Zakharov system and \((2 + 1)\)-dimensional Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov system by using the Exp-function method [9]. Guo et al. established local in time existence and uniqueness for a generalized Zakharov equation in the case of dimension \(d=1, 2, 3\). Moreover, by using the conservation laws and the Brezis–Gallouet inequality, the solution can be extended globally in time in a two-dimensional case for small initial data. Besides, they also proved global existence of smooth solution in one spatial dimension without any small assumption for initial data [10]. Biswas et al. obtained the 1-soliton solution to Zakharov equation with power law and dual-power law nonlinearities. The He’s variational principle was used to carry out the integration of this equation [11]. Buhe and Bluman obtained several reductions and numerous new exact solutions of the generalized Zakharov equations by some subalgebras of symmetries [12]. Morris, Kara, and Biswas studied the Zakharov equation with power law nonlinearity. The traveling wave hypothesis was applied to obtain the 1-soliton solution of this equation. The multiplier method from Lie symmetries was subsequently utilized to obtain the conservation laws of the equations [13]. Linares and Pastor proved that the initial value problem for the two-dimensional modified Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation is locally well-posed for data in \(H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(s>3/4\). Even though the critical space for this equation is \(L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), they proved that well-posedness is not possible in such a space. Global well-posedness and a sharp maximal function estimate were also established [14].
In [17], You studied the following generalized Zakharov system in space dimension two, and established the global existence for Cauchy problem.
We are interested in this paper in the asymptotic behavior of system (3)–(4) when α goes to zero. We regard equations (3)–(4) as the Langmuir turbulence parameterized by α (\(|\alpha|<1\)). One expects that the sequence of system (3)–(4) converges to the Zakharov equations (1)–(2). Actually, our goal is to show that the solutions \((E^{\alpha}, n^{\alpha})\) to (3)–(4) tend to \((E, n)\) when α goes to 0, where \((E, n)\) is the solution to (1)–(2) with (5).
The obtained results may be useful for better understanding the long wave Langmuir turbulence in plasma. Now we state the main results of the paper.
Theorem 1.1
Assume that \(E_{0}\in H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{0}\in L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{1}\in H^{-1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(0< p\leq2\), \(|\alpha|<1\), and \(\| E_{0}(x)\|_{L^{2}}\) small. Then, as α goes to zero, \((E^{\alpha}, n^{\alpha})\) converges to \((E, n)\) in \(L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}_{+}, H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{2}))\times L^{\infty }(\mathbb{R}_{+}, L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2}))\) weakly star.
Theorem 1.2
Suppose that \(E_{0}\in H^{m+2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{0}\in H^{m+1}(\mathbb {R}^{2})\), \(n_{1}\in H^{m}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\) (\(m\geq1\)) , \(0< p\leq2\), \(|\alpha |<1\), and \(\|E_{0}(x)\|_{L^{2}}\) small. Then
For the sake of convenience of the following contexts, we set some notations. For \(1 \leq q \leq\infty\), we denote by \(L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\) the space of all q times integrable functions in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) equipped with the norm \(\|\cdot\|_{L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^{2})}\) or simply \(\|\cdot\|_{L^{q}}\) and by \(H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\) the Sobolev space with the norm \(\|\cdot\| _{H^{s,2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})}\). Let \((f,g)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^{2}}f(x)\cdot\overline{g(x)} \,dx\), where \(\overline{g(x)}\) denotes the complex conjugate function of \(g(x)\).
The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we establish a weak convergence result. In Sect. 3, we state the strong convergence results.
2 Weak convergence results
In this section, we shall prove Theorem 1.1. We introduce φ and transform (3)–(4) with (5) into the following form:
with the initial data
where \(\varphi_{0} \) satisfies \(\Delta\varphi_{0}=n_{1}\).
Take the inner product of (6) and \(E^{\alpha}\), and take the inner product of (6) and \(E^{\alpha}_{t}\). Then we can obtain the following invariants:
In this section, we consider the initial data satisfying rather few regularity conditions. More precisely, we assume that \(E_{0}\), \(n_{0}\), \(n_{1}\) lie in \(H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(H^{-1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), respectively. According to the Galerkin method, there exists the weak global solution
The proof of Theorem 1.1 needs two lemmas recalled in [19].
Lemma 2.1
Let \(B_{0}\), B, \(B_{1}\) be three reflexive Banach spaces and assume that the embedding \(B_{0}\rightarrow B\) is compact. Let
W is a Banach space with the norm
Then the embedding \(W\rightarrow L^{p_{0}}((0, T); B)\) is compact.
Lemma 2.2
Let Ω be an open set of \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\), and let \(g,g_{\varepsilon}\in L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\), \(1< p<\infty\), such that
Then \(g_{\varepsilon}\rightarrow g\) weakly in \(L^{p}(\Omega)\).
Now, with these lemmas, we are able to prove Theorem 1.1.
Proof
By Hölder’s inequality, Young’s inequality, and the Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality, there holds
Using the Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality and noting \(|\alpha|<1\), we write
Note that \(0< p\leq2\) and \(\|E_{0}\|_{L^{2}}\) small, relations (10) and (11) imply that the quantities
are bounded uniformly in α. Therefore, some subsequence of \((E^{\alpha}, n^{\alpha}, \varphi^{\alpha})\), also labeled by α, has a weak limit \((E, n, \varphi)\). More precisely
Moreover, let us note that the following maps are continuous:
It then follows from (12) and (13) that the quantities
are bounded uniformly in α. So it can be assumed that
and
Finally, taking into account (12)–(19), Eqs. (6)–(8) imply that
Using the above results, the proof of Theorem 1.1 will be complete if we establish that
Let Ω be any bounded subdomain of \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\), ψ be some test function in \(L^{2}(0,T; H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{2}))\), \(\operatorname{supp}\psi \subset\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
Since
we deduce from (12) that
In fact
Therefore, we deduce from (13) that
Thus \(n^{\alpha}E^{\alpha}\rightarrow n E\) in \(L^{2}(0,T; H^{-1}(\mathbb {R}^{2}))\). So \(z=nE\).
We notice that the embedding
is compact, and for any Banach space X, the embedding
is continuous. Hence, according to (12), (20) and Lemma 2.1, applied to \(B_{0}=H^{1}(\Omega)\), \(B=L^{4}(\Omega)\), \(B_{1}=H^{-1}(\Omega )\), we obtain that some subsequence of \(E^{\alpha}|_{\Omega}\) (also labeled by α) converges strongly to \(E|_{\Omega}\) in \(L^{2}(0,T; L^{4}(\Omega))\). Thus, we can assume that
and thus
Then, using Lemma 2.2, (16) and (24) imply that \(w=|E|^{2}\).
Finally, let \(\phi\in\mathcal{D}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), we obtain from (6) that
By virtue of \(\|E^{\alpha}\|_{L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}_{+}, H^{1}(\mathbb {R}^{2}))}\) is bounded uniformly in α, we can obtain
Thus
Therefore
which completes the proof of Theorem 1.1. □
3 Strong convergence results
This last result leads us to wondering whether the convergence is better when we take more regular initial data. We shall prove that
converge strongly in some sense. Taking into account the equations satisfied by \((E^{\alpha}, n^{\alpha})\) and \((E, n)\), we find that \((F^{\alpha}, u^{\alpha})\) must satisfy the system
with the initial data
We introduce \(V^{\alpha}(x,t)\) and transform (25)–(27) into the following form:
with the initial data
We know that if \(E_{0}(x)\in H^{l+2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{0}(x)\in H^{l+1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{1}(x)\in H^{l}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(l\geq1\), and \(0< p\leq2\) with \(\|E_{0}(x)\|_{L^{2}}\) small, there exists a unique global solution \((E^{\alpha}, n^{\alpha})\) for system (3)–(5) satisfying [17]
Moreover, if \(E_{0}(x)\in H^{m+2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{0}(x)\in H^{m+1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(n_{1}(x)\in H^{m}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\), \(m\geq1\), and \(\|E_{0}(x)\|_{L^{2}}\) small, system (1), 2, (5) has a unique global solution \((E, n)\) satisfying [20]
The entire proof of Theorem 1.2 is broken down into Lemmas 3.1 and 3.2.
Lemma 3.1
Suppose that \(E_{0}\in H^{3}\), \(n_{0}\in H^{2}\), \(n_{1}\in H^{1}\), \(0< p\leq2\), \(|\alpha|<1\), and \(\|E_{0}(x)\|_{L^{2}}\) small. Then there exists some function \(M(t)\in L^{\infty}_{\mathrm{Loc}}(\mathbb{R_{+}})\) such that
Proof
Taking the inner product of (28) and \(F^{\alpha}\), we have
Since
From (32), we get
We deduce the inequality from (33)
Taking the inner product of (28) and \(F^{\alpha}_{t}\) gives that
Since
where
From (35), we obtain
First, we study the right-hand side of (36).
Thus, the right-hand side of (36) is smaller than
We now study the left-hand side of (36).
Thus, taking into account the initial data, we deduce from (36) the inequality
By combining inequalities (34) and (37), we obtain the estimate
which immediately yields
 □
Lemma 3.2
Suppose that \(E_{0}\in H^{m+2}\), \(n_{0}\in H^{m+1}\), \(n_{1}\in H^{m}\) (\(m\geq 1\)) , \(0< p\leq2\), \(|\alpha|<1\), and \(\|E_{0}(x)\|_{L^{2}}\) small. Then there exists some function \(M(t)\in L^{\infty}_{\mathrm{Loc}}(\mathbb{R_{+}})\) such that
Proof
Lemma 3.2 is true when \(m=1\) (Lemma 3.1). Suppose that Lemma 3.2 is true when \(m=k\) (\(k\geq1\)), i.e.,
We shall prove that estimate (38) is true when \(m=k+1\).
Taking the inner product of (28) and \((-1)^{k+1}D^{2k}F^{\alpha}_{t}\) results in
Since
Thus, from (39), we get
Since
Thus, the right-hand side of (40) is smaller than
We now study the left-hand side of (40).
Thus, taking into account the initial data, we deduce from (40) the following inequality:
Taking the inner product of (30) and \((-1)^{k+1}D^{2k+2} V^{\alpha}\) leads to
Since
Thus, from (42), we get
Thus, taking into account the initial data, we deduce from (43) the following inequality:
By combining (41) with (44), we get
which immediately yields
Lemma 3.2 is proved, and the result of Theorem 1.2 is obvious. □
5 Conclusions
We consider the initial value problem for the generalized Zakharov equations (3)–(5) which model the propagation of Langmuir waves in plasmas. For suitable initial data, solutions are shown to exist for a time interval independent of α. For such data, solutions of (3)–(5) converge as \(\alpha\to0\) to the solution of the classic Zakharov equations (1)–(2) with (5).
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11501232 and 11471137), Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province (Grant Nos. 15B185 and 16C1272), and Scientific Research Found of Huaihua University (Grant No. HHUY2015-05).
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You, S. Approximation to the global solution of generalized Zakharov equations in \(\mathbf{R}^{2}\). J Inequal Appl 2018, 219 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-018-1813-9
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