A model of gravitational differentiation of compressible self-gravitating planets
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Publication:6436129
arXiv2305.06232MaRDI QIDQ6436129FDOQ6436129
Authors: Alexander Mielke, Tomáş Roubíçek, Ulisse Stefanelli 
Publication date: 10 May 2023
Abstract: We present a dynamic model for inhomogeneous viscoelastic media at finite strains. The model features a Kelvin-Voigt rheology, and includes a self-generated gravitational field in the actual evolving configuration. In particular, a fully Eulerian approach is adopted. We specialize the model to viscoelastic (barotropic) fluids and prove existence and a certain regularity of global weak solutions by a Faedo-Galerkin semi-discretization technique. Then, an extension to multi-component chemically reacting viscoelastic fluids based on a phenomenological approach by Eckart and Prigogine, is advanced and studied. The model is inspired by planetary geophysics. In particular, it describes gravitational differentiation of inhomogeneous planets and moons, possibly undergoing volumetric phase transitions.
PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Nonsimple materials (74A30) Three or more component flows (76T30) Soil and rock mechanics (74L10) Compressible Navier-Stokes equations (76N06) Transport equations (35Q49)
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