Fractional nonlinear stochastic heat equation with variable thermal conductivity

Abstract

Abstract We consider a nonlinear stochastic heat equation with Riesz space-fractional derivative and variable thermal conductivity, on infinite domain. First we approximate the original problem by regularizing the Riesz space-fractional derivative. Then we prove that the approximate problem has almost surely a unique solution within a Colombeau generalized stochastic process space. In our solving procedure we use the theory of Colombeau generalized uniformly continuous semigroups of operators. At the end, we study the relation of the original and the approximate problem and prove that, under certain conditions, the derivative operators appearing in these two problems are associated. Even more, we prove that under some additional conditions, solutions of the original and the approximate problem are almost certainly associated as well (assuming that the first one almost surely exists).