Local Well-posedness of the Free Boundary Incompressible Elastodynamics with Surface Tension
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a free boundary problem of the incompressible elatodynamics, a coupling system of the Euler equations for the fluid motion with a transport equation for the deformation tensor. Under a natural force balance law on the free boundary with the surface tension, we establish its well-posedness theory on a short time interval. Our method is the vanishing viscosity limit by establishing a uniform a priori estimates with respect to the viscosity. As a by-product, the inviscid limit of the incompressible viscoelasticity (the system coupling with the Navier-Stokes equations) is also justified. We point out that based on a crucial new observation of the inherent structure of the elastic term on the free boundary, the framework here is established solely in standard Sobolev spaces, but not the co-normal ones used in \cite{MasRou}.
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@article{arxiv.2008.13354,
title = {Local Well-posedness of the Free Boundary Incompressible Elastodynamics with Surface Tension},
author = {Xumin Gu and Zhen Lei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.13354},
year = {2021}
}