Global smooth solution to the 2D Boussinesq equations with fractional dissipation

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the two-dimensional (2D) incompressible Boussinesq system with fractional Laplacian dissipation and thermal diffusion. Based on the previous works and some new observations, we show that the condition $1-\alpha <\beta<\min\Big\{3-3\alpha,\,\,\frac{\alpha}{2},\,\, \frac{3\alpha^{2}+4\alpha-4}{8(1-\alpha)}\Big\}$ with $0.7351\approx\frac{10-2\sqrt{10}}{5}<\alpha<1$ suffices in order for the solution pair of velocity and temperature to remain smooth for all time.