Well-Posedness of a Multiscale Model for Concentrated Suspensions

DOI10.1137/040621223zbMATH Open1236.35118arXivmath/0503425OpenAlexW2144066346MaRDI QIDQ5478166FDOQ5478166

Claude Le Bris, É. Cancès, Yousra Gati, I. Catto

Publication date: 30 June 2006

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a previous work [math.AP/0305408] three of us have studied a nonlinear parabolic equation arising in the mesoscopic modelling of concentrated suspensions of particles that are subjected to a given time-dependent shear rate. In the present work we extend the model to allow for a more physically relevant situation when the shear rate actually depends on the macroscopic velocity of the fluid, and as a feedback the macroscopic velocity is influenced by the average stress in the fluid. The geometry considered is that of a planar Couette flow. The mathematical system under study couples the one-dimensional heat equation and a nonlinear Fokker-Planck type equation with nonhomogeneous, nonlocal and possibly degenerate, coefficients. We show the existence and the uniqueness of the global-in-time weak solution to such a system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503425

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zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemCouette flownon-Newtonian fluidpartial differential equationconcentrated suspension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Suspensions (76T20)

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