Published June 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

On the motion of several rigid bodies in an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid

  • 1. Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Žitná 25, 115 67 Praha 1 (Czech Republic)
  • 2. Université de Toulouse, IMT équipe MIP, 118, route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulous cedex (France)

Description

The global existence of weak solutions is proved for the problem of the motion of one or several rigid bodies immersed in a non-Newtonian fluid of power-law type. The result is based on the fact that possible collisions of two rigid objects are outset by the phenomenon of shear thickening. The key ingredient of the proof is the strong convergence of the velocity gradients achieved by means of the method of pressure localization

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/21/6/012

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0951-7715/21/6/012;
PII
S0951-7715(08)70293-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nonlinearity (Print)
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1349-1366
ISSN
0951-7715

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44095810
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CLASSICAL MECHANICS; COLLISIONS; CONVERGENCE; FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; SHEAR; SOLIDS; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
MECHANICS