Global regular solutions for the dynamic antiplane shear problem in nonlinear viscoelasticity (Q911862)

The following boundary and initial data problem \[ \partial^ 2_ tu(x,t)-\partial_ t\Delta u(x,t)-div_ x(g(| \nabla u(x,t)|^ 2)\nabla u(x,t)=f(x,t),\quad x\in \Omega,\quad 0<t<T, \] \[ u(x,t)=0,\quad x\in \partial \Omega,\quad 0<t<T, \] \[ u(x,0)=u_ 0(x),\quad \partial_ tu(x,0)=u_ 1(x),\quad x\in \Omega, \] is considered. The equation of the problem is describing the antiplane shear motion of certain viscoelastic solids. For the above problem the author obtains results regarding the existence of unique global smooth solutions for large data in general domains in two dimensions, by imposing some natural conditions on the function g. The mechanical interpretations of these results are pointed out. Some other boundary conditions are considered.