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A model for the generation of heat due to mechanical losses during acoustic wave propagation in a solid is considered in a Kelvin-Voigt type framework. In contrast to previous studies on related thermoviscoelastic models, in line with…
We derive a class of thermodynamically consistent variants of Maxwell/Oldroyd-B type models for viscoelastic fluids. In particular, we study the models that allow one to consider temperature dependent material coefficients. This naturally…
We present data exhibiting hot spots spontaneously emerging in forward biased thin film photovoltaics based on a-Si:H technology. These spots evolve over time shrinking in their diameter and increasing temperature up to approximately 300…
This paper investigates a quasilinear parabolic system arising in thermoviscoelasticity of Kelvin-Voigt type with temperature-dependent viscosity and coupled terms. The system, given by \begin{equation*} \begin{cases}…
We study a quasi-static evolution of thermo-visco-elastic model. We act with external forces on non-homogeneous material body, which is a subject of our research. Such action may cause deformation of this body and may change its…
Using the finite element method we quantitatively analyse temperature field evolution in a viscoelastic solid undergoing a loading--unloading process. In particular we investigate the temperature field inside a Kelvin--Voigt type…
Our research is directed to a quasi-static evolution of the thermo-visco-elastic model. We assume that the material is subject to two kinds of mechanical deformations: elastic and inelastic. Moreover, our analysis captures the influence of…
In this work we study a quasi-static evolution of thermo-visco-elastic model with homogeneous thermal expansion. We assume that material is subject to two kinds of mechanical deformations: elastic and inelastic. Inelastic deformation is…
The first-order general relativistic theory of a generic dissipative (heat-conducting, viscous, particle-creating) fluid is rediscussed from a unified covariant frame-independent point of view. By generalizing some previous works in the…
The thermodynamical model of visco-elastic deformable solids at finite strains is formulated in a fully Eulerian way in rates. Also effects of thermal expansion or buoyancy due to evolving mass density in a gravity field are covered. The…
We investigate the stability of a one-dimensional wave equation with non smooth localized internal viscoelastic damping of Kelvin-Voigt type and with boundary or localized internal delay feedback. The main novelty in this paper is that the…
We study the N-dependence of the thermodynamical variables and the dynamical behavior of the well-known Hamiltonian Mean Field model. Microcanonical analysis revealed a thermodynamic limit which defers from the a priory traditional…
The thermodynamical model of viscoelastic deformable solids at finite strains with Kelvin-Voigt rheology with a higher-order viscosity (using the concept of multipolar materials) is formulated in a fully Eulerian way in rates. Assumptions…
According to the Nernst theorem or, equivalently, the third law of thermodynamics, the absolute zero temperature is not attainable. Starting with an initial positive temperature, we show that there exist solutions to a Kelvin-Voigt model…
The model \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_{tt} = \big(\gamma(\Theta) u_{xt}\big)_x + au_{xx} - \big(f(\Theta)\big)_x, \\[1mm] \Theta_t = \Theta_{xx} + \gamma(\Theta) u_{xt}^2 - f(\Theta) u_{xt}, \end{array} \right. \] for thermoviscoelastic…
The large-scale dynamics of heat spots in a thin layer of incompressible rotating fluid under the action of Coriolis and gravity is considered to obtain a simple model of synoptic turbulence. The derivation of equations describing the…
An adhesive unilateral contact between visco-elastic heat-conductive bodies in linear Kelvin-Voigt rheology is scrutinised. The flow-rule for debonding the adhesive is considered rate independent, unidirectional, and non-associative due to…
We consider \begin{align*} \label{HS} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_{tt} = (\gamma(\Theta) u_{xt})_x + a (\gamma(\Theta) u_x)_x +(f(\Theta))_x, \\[1mm] \Theta_t = D\Theta_{xx} + \Gamma(\Theta) u_{xt}^2 + F(\Theta) u_{xt}, \end{array}\right.…
In this paper we prove the existence of solutions for a class of viscoelastic dynamic systems on time--dependent cracked domains, with possibly degenerate viscosity coefficients. Under stronger regularity assumptions we also show a…
Despite considerable developments in the literature of the past decades, a standing open problem in the analysis of continuum mechanics appears to consist of determining how far the prototypical model for small-strain thermoviscoelastic…