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June  2015, 35(6): 2565-2590. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.2565

## Existence of weak solutions for a PDE system describing phase separation and damage processes including inertial effects

 1 Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Mohrenstr. 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany, Germany

Received  December 2013 Revised  February 2014 Published  December 2014

In this paper, we consider a coupled PDE system describing phase separation and damage phenomena in elastically stressed alloys in the presence of inertial effects. The material is considered on a bounded Lipschitz domain with mixed boundary conditions for the displacement variable. The main aim of this work is to establish existence of weak solutions for the introduced hyperbolic-parabolic system. To this end, we first adopt the notion of weak solutions introduced in [12]. Then we prove existence of weak solutions by means of regularization, time-discretization and different variational techniques.
Citation: Christian Heinemann, Christiane Kraus. Existence of weak solutions for a PDE system describing phase separation and damage processes including inertial effects. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2015, 35 (6) : 2565-2590. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.2565
##### References:
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##### References:
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