A phase field $\alpha$-Navier-Stokes vesicle-fluid interaction model: Existence and uniqueness of solutions

Ariane Piovezan Entringer; José Luiz Boldrini

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.397

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2015, Volume 20, Issue 2: 397-422. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.397

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A phase field $\alpha$-Navier-Stokes vesicle-fluid interaction model: Existence and uniqueness of solutions

Ariane Piovezan Entringer^1, and
José Luiz Boldrini^2,

1.
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Matemática, Rua P.H.Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, CEP 36570-000
2.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Departamento de Matemática, Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 651, Campinas, SP, CEP 13083-859

Received: February 28, 2014

Revised: June 30, 2014

Published: February 2015

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In this work we analyze a system of nonlinear evolution partial differential equations modeling the fluid-structure interaction associated to the dynamics of an elastic vesicle immersed in a moving incompressible viscous fluid. This system of equations couples an equation for a phase field variable, used to determine the position of vesicle membrane deformed by the action of the fluid, to the $\alpha$-Navier- Stokes equations with an extra nonlinear interaction term. We prove global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions for this system in suitable functional spaces even in the three-dimensional case.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35D30, 35Q35, 35Q92, 76D03; Secondary: 92C10.

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