Initial-boundary value problems to semilinear multi-term fractional differential equations

Abstract: For $\nu,\nu_i,\mu_j\in(0,1)$, we analyze the semilinear integro-differential equation on the one-dimensional domain $\Omega=(a,b)$ in the unknown $u=u(x,t)$ [ \mathbf{D}{t}^{\nu}(\varrho{0}u)+\sum_{i=1}^{M}\mathbf{D}{t}^{\nu{i}}(\varrho_{i}u) -\sum_{j=1}^{N}\mathbf{D}{t}^{\mu{j}}(\gamma_{j}u) -\mathcal{L}{1}u-\mathcal{K}*\mathcal{L}{2}u+f(u)=g(x,t), ] where $\mathbf{D}{t}^{\nu},\mathbf{D}{t}^{\nu_{i}}, \mathbf{D}{t}^{\mu{j}}$ are Caputo fractional derivatives, $\varrho_0=\varrho_0(t)>0,$ $\varrho_{i}=\varrho_{i}(t)$, $\gamma_{j}=\gamma_{j}(t)$, $\mathcal{L}_{k}$ are uniform elliptic operators with time-dependent smooth coefficients, $\mathcal{K}$ is a summable convolution kernel. Particular cases of this equation are the recently proposed advanced models of oxygen transport through capillaries. Under certain structural conditions on the nonlinearity $f$ and orders $\nu,\nu_i,\mu_j$, the global existence and uniqueness of classical and strong solutions to the related initial-boundary value problems are established via the so-called continuation arguments method. The crucial point is searching suitable a priori estimates of the solution in the fractional H\"{o}lder and Sobolev spaces. The problems are also studied from the numerical point of view.