Cavitation and phase transition of hyperelastic fluids (Q1078007): Difference between revisions

In this paper an attempt is made to answer the fundamental question how to distinguish liquids from gases in a fairy broad class of hyperelastic fluids defined by W. Noll on the basis of invariance properties. To this end, it is considered how certain expected phenomena, characteristic for liquids and gases, respectively, are reflected by the solutions of certain boundary-value problems under suitable hypotheses on the stored energy function \(\phi\). It is assumed that this energy can be described by a smooth, strictly convex function of the deformation gradient determinant. For hyperelastic fluids the function \(\phi\) either has one isolated minimum or it is monotone decreasing. It is proved, among other things, that for critical boundary data: i) under uniform radial outwards displacement of the boundary, a fluid ball may cavitate as a typical liquid, if and only if \(\phi\) has an isolated minimum; ii) under uniform Piola-Kirchhoff pressure, a fluid ball may undergo a phase transition, if and only if the corresponding mapping is not monotone.