Phase mixtures in dynamics of pseudoelasticity (Q1904620)

The paper provides a numerical treatment of phase mixtures in pseudoelasticity from a purely mathematical point of view. This is based on the result that the approximate solution may consist of persistent oscillations in strain which resemble the experimentally observed interface patterns. This result is obtained from a sequence of solutions for a rate-type viscoelastic problem with a non-monotone equilibrium stress-strain relation, for which in the limit as the viscosity tends to infinity the viscoelastic problem reduces to the rate-independent elastic problem describing phase transitions. This provides an interesting perspective for phase mixtures from the point of view of dynamics, by relating the phenomenon to the evolution of an unstable state. The viscoelastic formulation leans on previous works by I. Suliciu and associates.