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Global regular solutions to two-dimensional thermoviscoelasticity

• A two-dimensional thermoviscoelastic system of Kelvin-Voigt type with strong dependence on temperature is considered. The existence and uniqueness of a global regular solution is proved without small data assumptions. The global existence is proved in two steps. First global a priori estimate is derived applying the theory of anisotropic Sobolev spaces with a mixed norm. Then local existence, proved by the method of successive approximations for a sufficiently small time interval, is extended step by step in time. By two-dimensional solution we mean that all its quantities depend on two space variables only.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 74B20, 35K50; Secondary: 35Q72, 74F05.

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