An evolutionary mixed variational problem arising from frictional contact mechanics (Q2875327)

This paper is related to viscoelasticity with short memory. The abstract variational problem consists a system of an evolutionary variational equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE a(\dot{u}(t),v)+e(u,(t),v) + b(v, \lambda (t))=(f(t),v)_x\text{ for all }v \in X,\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and an evolutionary inequality, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE b(\dot{u} (t), \mu - \lambda (t)) \leq 0\text{ for all }\mu \in \Lambda(g) \subset Y,\tag{2}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE associated with an initial condition NEWLINE\[NEWLINE u(0) = u_0.\tag{3}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The unknown part of the problem consists of the pair \((u, \lambda)\), while the data consists of the triplet \((f,g,u_0)\in C([0,T],X) \times W \times X\), the interval \([0,T]\) being the time interval and \(W\) being a Hilbert space. First, the author proves the existence and the uniqueness of the solution and solves an intermediate problem for the velocity function. Next, the author focuses on continuous dependencies on the data \(f, u_0\) and \(g\). The proposed solution depends Lipschitz continuously on the initial data.NEWLINENEWLINEThis paper provides abstract results for a new mixed variational problem. The new variational approach allows to prove the existence and the uniqueness of the weak solution, the boundedness of the weak solution, the Lipschitz continuous dependence on the initial data and on the densities of the volume forces and the surface tractions.