arXiv · 1801.02285
Global existence and well-posedness for the Doi-Edwards polymer model
Abstract
In this paper we mainly investigate the Cauchy problem of the Doi-Edwards polymer model with dimension $d\geq2$. The model was derived in the late 1970s to describe the dynamics of polymers in melts. The system contain a Navier-Stokes equation with an additional stress tensor which depend on the deformation gradient tensor and the memory function. The deformation gradient tensor satisfies a transport equation and the memory function satisfies a degenerate parabolic equation. We first proved the local well-posedness for the Doi-Edwards polymer model in Besov spaces by using the Littlewood-Paley theory. Moreover, if the initial velocity and the initial memory is small enough, we obtain a global existence result.
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Wei Luo, Zhaoyang Yin. 2018-01-08. Global existence and well-posedness for the Doi-Edwards polymer model. https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02285
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