Effects of permeability and viscosity in linear polymeric gels

DOI10.1002/MMA.3577zbMATH Open1339.35313arXiv1210.3813OpenAlexW2963508496MaRDI QIDQ2804389FDOQ2804389

Brandon Chabaud, M. Carme Calderer

Publication date: 29 April 2016

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose and analyze a mathematical model of the mechanics of gels, consisting of the laws of balance of mass and linear momentum. We consider a gel to be an immiscible and incompressible mixture of a nonlinearly elastic polymer and a fluid. The problems that we study are motivated by predictions of the life cycle of body-implantable medical devices. Scaling arguments suggest neglecting inertia terms, and therefore, we consider the quasi-static approximation to the dynamics. We focus on the linearized system about relevant equilibrium solutions, and derive sufficient conditions for the solvability of the time dependent problems. These turn out to be conditions that guarantee local stability of the equilibrium solutions. The fact that some equilibrium solutions of interest are not stress free brings additional challenges to the analysis, and, in particular, to the derivation of the energy law of the systems. It also singles out the special role of the rotations in the analysis. From the point of view of applications, we point out that the conditions that guarantee stability of solutions also provide criteria to select material parameters for devices. The boundary conditions that we consider are of two types, first displacement-traction conditions for the governing equation of the polymer component, and secondly permeability conditions for the fluid equation. We present a rigorous study of these conditions in terms of balance laws of the fluid across the interface between the gel and its environment. We also consider the cases of viscous and inviscid solvent, assume Newtonian dissipation for the polymer component. We establish existence of weak solutions for the different boundary permeability conditions and viscosity assumptions. We present numerical simulations to study pressure concentration on edges (debonding).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3813

zbMATH Keywords

stabilitydiffusionelasticitypermeabilityviscositygel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Mixture effects in solid mechanics (74F20) Equations linearized about a deformed state (small deformations superposed on large) (74B15)

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