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The aim of this paper is to deal with a new class of fractional evolutionary equations involving the time-fractional order integral and nonlinear weakly continuous operators. Exploiting the Rothe method and using a surjectivity result for weakly continuous operators, the solvability for the problem is established. The result is applied to prove the existence of solutions to time-fractional nonstationary incompressible Navier–Stokes equation and Navier–Stokes–Voigt equation.
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The author thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12201137), the Special Fund for Science and Technological Bases and Talents of Guangxi (No. GUIKE AD21220103) and the Start-up Project of Scientific Research on Introducing talents at school level in Guangxi Minzu University (No. 2019KJQD04).
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Zeng, B. Existence for a class of time-fractional evolutionary equations with applications involving weakly continuous operator. Fract Calc Appl Anal 26, 172–192 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13540-022-00125-0
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Keywords
- Caputo fractional derivative
- Evolutionary equation
- Weakly continuous operator
- Navier–Stokes equation;
- Navier–Stokes–Voigt equation