On the Initial Boundary Value Problem to the Time-Fractional Wave Equation with Acoustic Boundary Conditions

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the study of the well-posedeness for the initial boundary value problem to the time-fractional wave equation with acoustic boundary conditions. The problem is considered in a bounded and connected domain $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$, $n\ge 2$, which includes simply connected regions. The boundary of $\Omega$ is made up of two disjoint pieces ${\Gamma }_0$ and ${\Gamma }_1.$ Homogeneous Dirichlet conditions are enforced on ${\Gamma }_0$, while acoustic boundary conditions are considered on ${\Gamma }_1$. To establish our main result, we employ the Faedo-Galerkin method and successfully solve a general system of time-fractional ordinary differential equations which extends the scope of the classical Picard-Lindelöf theorem.

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