On generalized solutions of two-phase flows for viscous incompressible fluids (Q2372146)

The existence of generalized solutions of the non-stationary flow of two immiscible, incompressible, viscous Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids with and without surface tension in a domain \(\Omega \subseteq {\mathbb R}^{d}, d=2,3,\) is investigated. In the case without surface tension the existence of weak solutions can be easier shown. But there is no knowledge about the interface between both fluids. The author proves the existence of so-called measure-valued varifold solutions, where the interface is modeled by an oriented general varifold \(V(t)\) which is a non-negative measure on \(\Omega \times {\mathbb S}^{d-1}\), where \({\mathbb S}^{d-1}\) is the unit sphere in \({\mathbb R}^{d}\). Furthermore, it is shown that measure-valued varifold solutions are weak solutions if an energy equality is satisfied.