A dynamic electroviscoelastic problem with thermal effects

We consider a mathematical model which describes the dynamic pro- cess of contact between a piezoelectric body and an electrically conductive foun- dation. We model the material's behavior with a nonlinear electro-viscoelastic constitutive law with thermal e ects. Contact is described with the Signorini condition, a version of Coulomb's law of dry friction. A variational formulation of the model is derived, and the existence of a unique weak solution is proved. The proofs are based on the classical result of nonlinear rst order evolution inequali- ties, the equations with monotone operators, and the xed point arguments.

Existence of a Unique Solution to a Fractional Partial Differential Equation and Its Continuous Dependence on Parameters

In the present paper we give conditions under which there exists a unique weak solution for a nonlocal equation driven by the integrodifferential operator of fractional Laplacian type. We argue for the optimality of some assumptions. Some Lyapunov-type inequalities are given. We also study the continuous dependence of the solution on parameters. In proofs we use monotonicity and variational methods.

Existence of a unique weak solution to a non-autonomous time-fractional diffusion equation with space-dependent variable order

In this contribution, we investigate an initial-boundary value problem for a fractional diffusion equation with Caputo fractional derivative of space-dependent variable order where the coefficients are dependent on spatial and time variables. We consider a bounded Lipschitz domain and a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Variable-order fractional differential operators originate in anomalous diffusion modelling. Using the strongly positive definiteness of the governing kernel, we establish the existence of a unique weak solution in $u\in \operatorname{L}^{\infty } ((0,T),\operatorname{H}^{1}_{0}( \Omega ) )$ u ∈ L ∞ ( ( 0 , T ) , H 0 1 ( Ω ) ) to the problem if the initial data belongs to $\operatorname{H}^{1}_{0}(\Omega )$ H 0 1 ( Ω ) . We show that the solution belongs to $\operatorname{C} ([0,T],{\operatorname{H}^{1}_{0}(\Omega )}^{*} )$ C ( [ 0 , T ] , H 0 1 ( Ω ) ∗ ) in the case of a Caputo fractional derivative of constant order. We generalise a fundamental identity for integro-differential operators of the form $\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t} (k\ast v)(t)$ d d t ( k ∗ v ) ( t ) to a convolution kernel that is also space-dependent and employ this result when searching for more regular solutions. We also discuss the situation that the domain consists of separated subdomains.

Stability of Weak Solutions to Parabolic Problems with Nonstandard Growth and Cross–Diffusion

We study the stability of a unique weak solution to certain parabolic systems with nonstandard growth condition, which are additionally dependent on a cross-diffusion term. More precisely, we show that two unique weak solutions of the considered system with different initial values are controlled by their initial values.

Existence of a Unique Weak Solution to a Nonlinear Non-Autonomous Time-Fractional Wave Equation (of Distributed-Order)

We study an initial-boundary value problem for a fractional wave equation of time distributed-order with a nonlinear source term. The coefficients of the second order differential operator are dependent on the spatial and time variables. We show the existence of a unique weak solution to the problem under low regularity assumptions on the data, which includes weakly singular solutions in the class of admissible problems. A similar result holds true for the fractional wave equation with Caputo fractional derivative.

Well-posedness of the fractional Zener wave equation for heterogeneous viscoelastic materials

Zener’s model for viscoelastic solids replaces Hooke’s law σ = 2με(u) + λ tr(ε(u)) I, relating the stress tensor σ to the strain tensor ε(u), where u is the displacement vector, μ > 0 is the shear modulus, and λ ≥ 0 is the first Lamé coefficient, with the constitutive law (1 + τDt) σ = (1 + ρDt)[2με(u) + λ tr(ε(u)) I], where τ > 0 is the characteristic relaxation time and ρ ≥ τ is the characteristic retardation time. It is the simplest model that predicts creep/recovery and stress relaxation phenomena. We explore the well-posedness of the fractional version of the model, where the first-order time-derivative Dt in the constitutive law is replaced by the Caputo time-derivative $\begin{array}{} D_t^\alpha \end{array} $ with α ∈ (0, 1), μ, λ belong to L∞(Ω), μ is bounded below by a positive constant and λ is nonnegative. We show that, when coupled with the equation of motion ϱü = Div σ + f, considered in a bounded open Lipschitz domain Ω in ℝ3 and over a time interval (0, T], where ϱ ∈ L∞(Ω) is the density of the material, assumed to be bounded below by a positive constant, and f is a specified load vector, the resulting model is well-posed in the sense that the associated initial-boundary-value problem, with initial conditions u(0, x) = g(x), u̇(0, x) = h(x), σ(0, x) = S(x), for x ∈ Ω, and a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, possesses a unique weak solution for any choice of g ∈ [$\begin{array}{} \mathrm{H}^1_0 \end{array} $(Ω)]3, h ∈ [L2(Ω)]3, and S = ST ∈ [L2(Ω)]3×3, and any load vector f ∈ L2(0, T; [L2(Ω)]3), and that this unique weak solution depends continuously on the initial data and the load vector.

A unique weak solution for a kind of coupled system of fractional Schrödinger equations

In this paper, we prove the existence of a unique weak solution for a class of fractional systems of Schrödinger equations by using the Minty-Browder theorem in the Cartesian space. To this aim, we need to impose some growth conditions to control the source functions with respect to dependent variables.

Variational analysis for some frictional contact problems

We consider a class of evolutionary variational problems which describes the static frictional contact between a piezoelectric body and a conductive obstacle. The formulation is in a form of coupled system involving the displacement and electric potentiel fieelds. We provide the existence of unique weak solution of the problems. The proof is based on the evolutionary variational inequalities and Banach's xed point theorem.

Admissibility of a solution to generalized Chaplygin gas

It is known that there is a solution to the Riemann problem for generalized Chaplygin gas model and that it contains the Dirac delta function in some cases. In some cases, usual admissible criteria can not extract a unique weak solution as it was shown in [4]. The aim of this paper is to use a solution to perturbed generalized Chaplygin model by a small constant ?? > 0 and obtain a its unique limit. A weak solution to the unperturbed system that equals that limit is called admissible. The perturbation is made by using the modified model of Chaplygin gas defined in [5].