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Existence theory for stochastic power law fluids

Analysis of PDEs 2017-01-11 v4

Abstract

We consider the equations of motion for an incompressible Non-Newtonian fluid in a bounded Lipschitz domain GRdG\subset\mathbb R^d during the time intervall (0,T)(0,T) together with a stochastic perturbation driven by a Brownian motion WW. The balance of momentum reads as dv=divSdt(v)vdt+πdt+fdt+Φ(v)dWt,dv=\mathrm{div}\, S\,dt-(\nabla v)v\,dt+\nabla\pi \,dt+f\,dt+\Phi(v)\,dW_t, where vv is the velocity, π\pi the pressure and ff an external volume force. We assume the common power law model S(ε(v))=(1+ε(v))p2ε(v)S(\varepsilon(v))=\big(1+|\varepsilon(v)|\big)^{p-2} \varepsilon(v) and show the existence of weak (martingale) solutions provided p>2d+2d+2p>\tfrac{2d+2}{d+2}. Our approach is based on the LL^\infty-truncation and a harmonic pressure decomposition which are adapted to the stochastic setting.

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@article{arxiv.1312.2380,
  title  = {Existence theory for stochastic power law fluids},
  author = {Dominic Breit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2380},
  year   = {2017}
}
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