Existence and uniqueness of the solution to a 3D thermoviscoelastic system

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2003-04-29

Authors

Bonetti, Elena
Bonfanti, Giovanna

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Southwest Texas State University, Department of Mathematics

Abstract

This paper presents results on existence and uniqueness of solutions to a three-dimensional thermoviscoelastic system. The constitutive relations of the model are recovered by a free energy functional and a pseudo-potential of dissipation. Using a fixed point argument, combined with an a priori estimates-passage to the limit technique, we prove a local existence result for a related initial and boundary values problem. Hence, uniqueness of the solution is proved on the whole time interval, as well as positivity of the absolute temperature.

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3D thermoviscoelastic system, Thermomechanical modelling, Nonlinear PDE's system, Existence and uniqueness results

Citation

Bonetti, E., & Bonfanti, G. (2003). Existence and uniqueness of the solution to a 3D thermoviscoelastic system. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2003</i>(50), pp. 1-15.

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