Well-posedness for a class of compressible non-Newtonian fluids equations

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to deal with the issue of well-posedness for a class of non-Newtonian fluid dynamics equations. These sets of equations are commonly used to describe various complex models that appear in nature, industry, and biology. The equations describing the motion of such fluids are characterized by a non-linear constitutive law relating the state of stress to the rate of deformation. We show the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to two important models: the Power Law model and the Bingham model. While our result for the first model holds over a periodic domain $\Omega=\mathbb{R}^3,$ the result obtained on the second model is limited to the one-dimensional case. This is because Bingham's constitutive law is discontinuous due to phase transition that may appear during the time when flows change nature, particularly from liquid motion to rigid motion and vice-versa. This property reduces the probability of showing smooth solutions to such a system in higher dimension space.