Hölder continuity of exponential pullback attractors for form II Mindlin's strain gradient viscoelastic plate (Q6139068)

The author considers the deformations of a viscoelastic plate described by the integro-partial differential equation \[ u_{tt}-\frac{1}{3}h^{2}\Delta u_{tt}-\alpha \Delta u+\gamma \Delta ^{2}u-\int_{0}^{\infty }m_{1}(s)\Delta \zeta (s)ds\] \[\qquad +\int_{0}^{\infty }m_{2}(s)\Delta ^{2}\zeta (s)ds-(p-\delta \left\Vert \nabla u\right\Vert ^{2})\Delta u+f(u)=g(x,t),\] with \(\zeta _{t}+\zeta _{s}=u_{t}\), \((x,t,s)\in \Omega \times \lbrack \tau ,\infty )\times \mathbb{R}^{+}\). Here \(\Omega \) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) with smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega \), \(u\) the displacement vector, \(h\) a microstructural parameter, \( \zeta \) the relative displacement memory defined by \(\zeta =\zeta ^{t}(x,s)=u(x,t)-u(x,t-s)\), \(m_{1}\) and \(m_{2}\) nonnegative memory kernels which belong to \(C^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{+})\cap L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{+})\) and such that \[m_{k}^{\prime }(s),m_{k}^{\prime }(s)+\kappa _{k}m_{k}(s)\leq 0\] for some \(\kappa _{k}>0\) on \(\mathbb{R}^{+}\). Furthermore, \(f(u)\) a nonlinear forcing function satisfying \(f(0)=0\), and \[\left\vert f^{\prime }(s)\right\vert \leq C_{f}(1+\left\vert s\right\vert ^{r-1}),\] for all \(s\in \mathbb{R}\), where \( r\geq 1\) and \(C_{f}\) is a positive constant, such that there exist constants \(\beta _{1}\in \lbrack 0,\gamma \lambda _{0}/4)\) and \(\eta _{1}>0\) with \[-\eta _{1}-\beta _{1}s^{2}\leq \widehat{f}(s)=\int_{0}^{s}f(\tau )d\tau \leq f(s)s+\beta _{1}s^{2},\] for all \(s\in \mathbb{R}\). Finally\(g\) is a time-dependent perturbation which belongs to \(L_{loc}^{2}(\mathbb{R} ;L^{2}(\Omega ))\) and satisfies \[\int_{-\infty }^{t}e^{\varsigma s}\left\Vert g(x,s)\right\Vert ^{2}ds<\infty ,\] for all \(t\in \mathbb{R}\), for an appropriate choice of \(\varsigma >0\). The boundary conditions: \( u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t)=0\), \((x,t)\in \partial \Omega \times \lbrack \tau ,\infty )\), \(\zeta ^{t}(x,s)=\Delta \zeta ^{t}(x,s)=0\), \((x,t,s)\in \partial \Omega \times \lbrack \tau ,\infty )\times \mathbb{R}^{+}\), are imposed, and the solution starts from the initial conditions: \(u(x,\tau )=u_{0}^{\tau }(x)=\widehat{u}(x,\tau )\), \(u_{t}(x,\tau )=u_{1}^{\tau }(x)=\widehat{u} _{t}(x,\tau )\), \((x,t)\in \Omega \times \lbrack \tau ,\infty )\), \(\zeta ^{\tau }(x,s)=\widehat{u}(x,\tau )-\widehat{u}(x,\tau -s)=\zeta ^{\tau} _{0}(x,s)\), \((x,s)\in \Omega \times \mathbb{R}^{+}\), where \(\widehat{u}:\Omega \times (-\infty ,\tau ]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is the given past history of \( u\). The paper extends results previously obtained by the author in [NoDEA, Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 28, No. 5, Paper No. 52, 39 p. (2021; Zbl 1471.35052)], as it presents results concerning the continuity properties of pullback and exponential pullback attractors in the present context. The author first analyzes the well-posedness of the problem. Introducing \( U=(u,u_{t},\zeta )\), the above problem can be written in the abstract form as: \[\frac{dU(t)}{dt}=\mathcal{A}U(t)+\mathfrak{F}(t,U(t)),\] \(t>\tau \), where \(\mathcal{A}:D(\mathcal{A})\subset \mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathcal{H}\) , with \(\mathcal{H}=V^{2}\times V_{h}\times \mathcal{W}\), is a linear operator and \(\mathfrak{F}\) involves \(F\). A function \(U(t)\in C([\tau ,\infty );\mathcal{H})\) which satisfies the integral equation \[U(t)=e^{ \mathcal{A}(t-\tau )}U(\tau )+\int_{\tau }^{t}e^{\mathcal{A}(t-s)} \mathfrak{F}(s,U(s))ds,\] \(t\geq \tau \), is a mild solution to the problem on the interval \([\tau ,T]\). A continuous function \(U:[\tau ,T)\rightarrow \mathcal{ H}\) with \(U(\tau )=U_{\tau }\) differentiable a.e. on \([\tau ,T)\), and such that for any \(t\in \lbrack \tau ,T)\), \(U(t)\in D(\mathcal{A})\) and the previous abstract equation holds is a strong solution on \([\tau ,T)\) with \( \tau <T\leq \infty \). A function \(U=(u,u_{t},\zeta )\in C([\tau ,\infty ); \mathcal{H})\), such that \(U(\tau )=U_{\tau }=(u_{0}^{\tau },u_{1}^{\tau },\zeta _{\tau })\in \mathcal{H}\), and which satisfies a variational formulation in the sense of distributions is a weak solution to the viscoplastic plate problem. For a strong solution, the total energy is defined as \[\mathcal{E}(t)=E(t)+\int_{\Omega }\widehat{f}(u)dx,\] where \[E(t)= \frac{1}{2}\left\Vert U(t)\right\Vert _{\mathcal{H}}^{2}+\frac{1}{4\delta } (\delta \left\Vert \nabla u\right\Vert ^{2}-p)^{2}.\] The author proves that the operator \(\mathcal{A}\) generates a semigroup of contractions in \( \mathcal{H}\), whence that for every initial condition \(U(\tau )=U_{\tau }=(u_{0}^{\tau },u_{1}^{\tau },\zeta _{\tau })\in \mathcal{H}\), the viscoplastic plate problem has a unique weak solution satisfying \(U(t)\in C([\tau ,\infty );\mathcal{H})\). If \(U_{\tau }\in D(\mathcal{A})\), this solution is strong and the weak solutions depend continuously on the initial data \(U_{\tau }\) in \(\mathcal{H}\). The author then recalls the basic notations, definitions and abstract results concerning pullback and exponential pullback attractors. He finally proves the existence of pullback attractors for the process generated by the viscoplastic plate problem and their regularity, upper semicontinuity and continuity with respect to the perturbed parameter \(\delta \).