Cauchy Problem for Incompressible Neo-Hookean materials

DOI10.1007/S00205-023-01851-2MaRDI QIDQ6382393arXivFDO

Authors Lars Andersson, Lev Kapitanski

Publication date 6 November 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00205-023-01851-2

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Euler equations (35Q31) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Linear waves in solid mechanics (74J05) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.APmath.MP

Abstract: In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for neo-Hookean incompressible elasticity in spatial dimension $dgeq2$. We are here interested primarily in the low regularity case, $sle{s}_{crit}=d/2+1$. For $d=2,3$, we prove existence and uniqueness for $s_0<sle{s}_{crit}$, and we can prove well-posedness, but for a smaller range, $s_1<sle{s}_{crit}$, �egin{align*} ext{if $d=2$}{}&, quad s_0 = frac74, quad s_1= frac74 + frac{sqrt{65}-7}{8} \ ext{if $d=3$}{}&, quad s_0 = 2, quad s_1 = 1 + sqrt{ frac32} end{align*} We consider the initial deformations of the form $x(0,xi)=Axi+varphi(xi)$, where $A$ is a constant $SL(d,mathbbR)$ matrix, and $varphiin{H}^{s+1}$. For the full range (in $s$) results, as indicated above, we need additional H"older regularity assumptions on certain combinations of second order derivatives of $varphi$. A key observation in the proof is that the equations of evolution for the vorticities decomposes into a first-order hyperbolic system, for which a Strichartz estimate holds, and a coupled transport system. This allows one to set up a bootstrap argument to prove local existence and uniqueness. Continuous dependence on initial data is proved using an argument inspired by Bona and Smith, and Kato and Lai, with a modification based on new estimates for Riesz potentials. The results of this paper should be compared to what is known for the ideal fluid equations, where, as shown by Bourgain and Li, the requirement $s>s_{crit}$ is necessary.

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