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Uniqueness theorems for linearized theories of interacting continua

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

R. J. Atkin ,
P. Chadwick  and
T. R. Steel
R. J. Atkin
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
P. Chadwick
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
T. R. Steel
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Summary

Recent work on the mechanics of interacting continua has led to the formulation of linearized theories governing thermo-mechanical disturbances of small amplitude in mixtures of an elastic solid and a viscous fluid and of two elastic solids. These theories are well posed in the crude sense that the number of field and constitutive equations equals the number of field quantities to be determined, but the proper posing of initial and initial-boundary-value problems has not been studied. In this paper we prove, for both types of mixtures, the uniqueness of sufficiently smooth solutions of the field and constitutive equations subject to initial and boundary data which include conditions of direct physical significance. Sufficient conditions for uniqueness are given in the form of inequalities on the material constants appearing in the constitutive equations. These restrictions fall into two categories, one arising from the application of the entropy-production inequality, and therefore intrinsic to the theory, and the other representing constraints on the Helmholtz free energy of the mixture. Our results include as special cases uniqueness theorems for unsteady linearized compressible flow of a heat-conducting viscous fluid and for the linear theory of thermoelasticity.

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Mathematika , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , June 1967 , pp. 27 - 42
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Copyright © University College London 1967

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