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SIAM JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 3985-4030Publisher
SIAM PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1137/20M1384452
Keywords
non-Newtonian fluid; viscoelastic fluid; stress-diffusion; incompressible fluid; temperature-dependent material moduli; weak solution; global-in-time existence
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- Czech Science Foundation [18-12719S]
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This paper proves the existence of large-data global-in-time weak solutions to an evolutionary PDE system describing flows of incompressible heat-conducting viscoelastic rate-type fluids, subject to specific boundary conditions. The thermodynamic foundations are developed and used to establish critical structural relations and to motivate the definition of weak solutions. The model, with a purely spherical extra stress tensor, presents challenges that require innovative mathematical ideas to address the complex structure of the associated internal energy and entropy and energy fluxes.
We prove the existence of large-data global-in-time weak solutions to an evolutionary PDE system describing flows of incompressible heat-conducting viscoelastic rate-type fluids with stress-diffusion, subject to a stick-slip boundary condition for the velocity and a homogeneous Neumann boundary condition for the extra stress tensor. In the introductory section we develop the thermodynamic foundations of the proposed model, and we document the role of thermodynamics in obtaining critical structural relations between the quantities of interest. These structural relations are then exploited in the mathematical analysis of the governing equations. In particular, the definition of weak solution is motivated by the thermodynamic basis of the model. The extra stress tensor describing the elastic response of the fluid is in our case purely spherical, which is a simplification from the physical point of view. The model nevertheless exhibits features that require novel mathematical ideas in order to deal with the technically complex structure of the associated internal energy and the more complicated forms of the corresponding entropy and energy fluxes. The paper provides the first rigorous proof of the existence of large-data global-in-time weak solutions to the governing equations for coupled thermo-mechanical processes in viscoelastic rate-type fluids.
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