Thermodynamically consistent higher order phase field Navier-Stokes models with applications to biomembranes

DOI10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.371zbMath1210.35258MaRDI QIDQ631295

Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date: 22 March 2011

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.371

zbMATH Keywords

weak solution; second law of thermodynamics; convection; dissipation inequality; phase field model; Navier-Stokes equation; momentum equation; biomembrane; fluid interfaces; bending elastic energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74A15: Thermodynamics in solid mechanics

92C05: Biophysics

74K15: Membranes

74L15: Biomechanical solid mechanics

76Z99: Biological fluid mechanics

35Q79: PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer