• Media type: Text; E-Book; Report
  • Title: An existence result for a class of nonlinear magnetorheological composites
  • Contributor: Nika, Grigor [Author]
  • imprint: Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.34657/8560; https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2804
  • ISSN: 2198-5855
  • Keywords: augmented variational formulation ; Magnetorheological fluids ; weak solutions ; fixed point methods
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  • Description: We prove existence of a weak solution for a nonlinear, multi-physics, multi-scale problem of magnetorheological suspensions introduced in Nika & Vernescu (Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 71(1):1--19, '20). The hybrid model couples the Stokes' equation with the quasi-static Maxwell's equations through the Lorentz force and the Maxwell stress tensor. The proof of existence is based on: i) the augmented variational formulation of Maxwell's equations, ii) the definition of a new function space for the magnetic induction and the proof of a Poincaré type inequality, iii) the Altman--Shinbrot fixed point theorem when the magnetic Reynold's number, Rm, is small.
  • Access State: Open Access