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Well-posedness of the free boundary problem in incompressible elastodynamics

Analysis of PDEs 2018-02-27 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the local well-posedness of the free boundary problem in incompressible elastodynamics under a natural stability condition, which ensures that the evolution equation describing the free boundary is strictly hyperbolic. Our result gives a rigorous confirmation that the elasticity has a stabilizing effect on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08819,
  title  = {Well-posedness of the free boundary problem in incompressible elastodynamics},
  author = {Hui Li and Wei Wang and Zhifei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08819},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages