Well-posedness for a class of non-Newtonian fluids with general growth conditions
Volume 86 / 2009
Abstract
The paper concerns uniqueness of weak solutions to non-Newtonian fluids with nonstandard growth conditions for the Cauchy stress tensor. We recall the results on existence of weak solutions and additionally provide the proof of existence of measure-valued solutions. Motivated by the fluids of strongly inhomogeneous behaviour and having the property of rapid shear thickening we observe that the described situation cannot be captured by power-law-type rheology. We describe the growth conditions with the help of general $x$-dependent convex functions. This formulation yields the existence of solutions in generalized Orlicz spaces. These considerations are motivated by e.g. electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids, and shear thickening fluids.
