Quasi-variational inequality approach to heat convection problems with temperature dependent velocity constraint

Takeshi Fukao; Nobuyuki Kenmochi

doi:10.3934/dcds.2015.35.2523

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2015, Volume 35, Issue 6: 2523-2538. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.2523

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Quasi-variational inequality approach to heat convection problems with temperature dependent velocity constraint

Takeshi Fukao^1, and
Nobuyuki Kenmochi^2,

1.
Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University of Education, Fuji 1, Fukakusa Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8522
2.
Department of Education, School of Education, Bukkyo University, 96 Kitahananobo-cho, Murasakino, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8301

Received: December 2013

Revised: April 2014

Published online: December 2014

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This paper is concerned with a heat convection problem. We discuss it in the framework of parabolic variational inequalities. The problem is a system of a heat equation with convection and a Navier-Stokes variational inequality with temperature-dependent velocity constraint. Our problem is a sort of parabolic quasi-variational inequalities in the sense that the constraint set for the velocity field depends on the unknown temperature. We shall give an existence result of the heat convection problem in a weak sense, and show that under some additional constraint for temperature there exists a strong solution of the problem.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35M86, 47J35; Secondary: 47J20.

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