Special Session 18: Advanced methodologies in mathematical materials science and biology

On a variational inequality of Bingham and Navier--Stokes type

Takeshi Fukao
Ryukoku University
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Takahito Kashiwabara
Abstract:
In this talk, we discuss the well-posedness of the variational inequality for a fluid dynamics of Bingham and Navier--Stokes type in three dimension. This kind of problem was treated by Naumann--Wulst (1979), Kato (1993) for the Bingham fluid, based on the result by Duvaut--Lions (1976). All of them, the solution makes weak sense in $H^1$, because one could not get the enough $H^2$-regularity. The problem is formulated the evolution equation governed by the subdifferential. By discussing the characterization of the subdifferential, more precisely, the $H^2$-regularity result of the solution for the variational inequality, the Barbu truncation method works well to prove the well-posedness. This talk is based on the joint work with Takahito Kashiwabara, The University of Tokyo.