Coupled problems on stationary non-isothermal flow of electrorheological fluids (Q812202)

Electrorheological fluids are smart materials - concentrated suspensions of polarizable particles in a nonconducting fluid. There exists a fairly complete theory describing constitutive stress-strain relation for such fluids in the presence of an electrical field. The authors consider original and regularized coupled problems. By using topological methods (degree theory), monotonicity and compactness methods they prove the existence of a generalized solution to the regularized problem. They furthermore prove that the solution of the original problem is a limiting point of the set of solutions of the regularized problems in which the regularization parameter tends to zero.