Unidirectional evolution equations of diffusion type

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2018.05.022MaRDI QIDQ1993955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 6 November 2018

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01072

damage mechanics discretization regularity subdifferential calculus unidirectional diffusion equation variational inequality of obstacle type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear parabolic equations (35K61) Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators (35K86) Theories of fracture and damage (74A45)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the uniqueness, existence, comparison principle and long-time behavior of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for a unidirectional diffusion equation. The unidirectional evolution often appears in Damage Mechanics due to the strong irreversibility of crack propagation or damage evolution. The existence of solutions is proved in an L^2-framework by introducing a peculiar discretization of the unidirectional diffusion equation by means of variational inequities of obstacle type and by developing a regularity theory for such variational inequalities. The novel discretization argument will be also applied to prove the comparison principle as well as to investigate the long-time behavior of solutions.

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The authors study the initial-boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} &\partial_tu = (\Delta u+f)_+\;\text{in}\;Q:=\Omega\times (0,\infty),\\ &u=0\;\text{ on}\;\Gamma_D\times (0,\infty),\;\partial_\nu u=0\;\text{on}\;\Gamma_N\times (0,\infty),\;u|_{t=0}=u_0\;\text{in}\;\Omega, \end{aligned} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded Lipschitz domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n,\;n\in \mathbb{N};\;\Gamma=\partial\Omega,\;\Gamma_D\subset \Gamma,\;\Gamma_N\subset \Gamma,\) \(\;\Gamma_D\cap \Gamma_N=\emptyset,\;\mathcal{H}^{n-1}(\Gamma\setminus(\Gamma_D\cup \Gamma_N))=0,\;\mathcal{H}^{n-1}\) is the \((n-1)\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). They define a strong solution of the problem and verify its uniqueness. The existence is proved employing a backward Euler scheme and by a new method of \textit{a priori} estimates based on a reduction of discretized equations to variational inequalities of obstacle type and by developing a regularity theory for such obstacle problems. The discretization is applied also to proving the comparison principle and to investigation the long-time behaviour of solutions.

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