Nonsmooth kernels in a phase relaxation problem with memory

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00496-3MaRDI QIDQ4266438zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Giovanna Bonfanti, Pierluigi Colli, Maurizio Grasselli, Fabio Luterotti

Publication date 16 November 1999

Published in Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00496-3

existence homogeneous Dirichlet data memory effects superheating undercooling uniqueness

PDEs with multivalued right-hand sides (35R70) Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Problems involving hysteresis in solids (74N30)

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The authors study the foflowing system of partial differential equations with convolution integrals modelling linear memory effects: \[ \begin{aligned} \partial_t(\varphi_0 \theta+\psi_0 \chi+\varphi* \theta+\psi* \chi)-k_0 \Delta \theta -k*\Delta \theta=f,\\ \alpha\partial_t \chi\in\beta (\theta, \chi)-H^{-1} (\chi)\end{aligned} \tag{1} \] for \((x,t)\in\Omega \times(0,T) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3 \times (0,T)\). Here \(\theta(x,t)\) denotes the temperature, \(\chi(x,t)\) the fraction of the liquid component in a mixture, \(\varphi_0,\psi_0,k_0\) and \(\alpha\) are positive constants, \(f\) represents a known function which depends both on the heat supply and on the given past history of \(\theta\) and \(\chi\). The nonlinear function \(\beta\) is uniformly Lipschitz continuous, and \[ H^{-1}(r)=\begin{cases} \{0\}\times(+\infty,0], \quad &\text{if }r=0,\\ \bigl\{(r,0) \bigr\}, \quad &\text{if }0<r<1,\\ \{1\}\times [0,\infty), \quad &\text{if }r=1,\\ \varnothing,\quad & \text{otherwise}. \end{cases} \] The evolution equation (1) for the fraction \(\chi\) can model undercooling or superheating. In a previous article [\textit{P. Colli} and \textit{M. Grasseli}, J. Integral Equations Appl. 5, No.~1, 1-22 (1993; Zbl 0781.45009)] an existence and uniqueness theorem for the initial-boundary value problem with homogeneous Dirichlet data was proved under the assumption that the memory kernels \(\varphi\) and \(k\) are absolutely continuous. In the article under consideration it is shown that the same result holds if \(\varphi\) and \(k\) are just square integrable and if \(k\) satisfies an integral inequality assuring the second law of thermodynamics to hold. The last section of the article contains a few remarks on the regularity of the solution.

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