Steady-state thermal Herschel-Bulkley flow with Tresca's friction law

• Main Authors: Farid Messelmi, Boubakeur Merouani, Fouzia Bouzeghaya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Texas State University 2010-04-01
• Series: Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
• Subjects: Herschel-Bulkley fluid; thermal friction law; variational inequality; weak solution
• Online Access: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2010/46/abstr.html

We consider a mathematical model which describes the steady-state flow of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid whose the consistency and the yield limit depend on the temperature and with mixed boundary conditions, including a frictional boundary condition. We derive a weak formulation of the coupled system of motion and energy equations which consists of a variational inequality for the velocity field. We prove the existence of weak solutions. In the asymptotic limit case of a high thermal conductivity, the temperature becomes a constant solving an implicit total energy equation involving the consistency function and the yield limit.