Abstract
We consider a inultiscale model describing the flow of a concentrated suspension. The model couples the macroscopic equation of conservation of momentum with a nonlinear nonlocal kinetic equation describing at the microscopic level the rheological behaviour of the fluid. We study the long-time limit of the time-dependent solution. For this purpose, we use the entropy method to prove the convergence to equilibrium of the kinetic equation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 449-470 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2006 |
Keywords
- Concentrated suspension
- Convergence to equilibrium
- Couette flow
- Entropy method
- Long-time limit
- Non-Newtonian fluid
- Partial differential equation