# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2012, 5(3): 605-629. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.605

## On a p-curl system arising in electromagnetism

 1 Department of Mathematics/CMAT, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal, Portugal 2 CMAF/Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2, 1649-003 Lisboa

Received  September 2010 Revised  June 2011 Published  October 2011

We prove existence of solution of a $p$-curl type evolutionary system arising in electromagnetism with a power nonlinearity of order $p$, $1 < p < \infty$, assuming natural tangential boundary conditions. We consider also the asymptotic behaviour in the power obtaining, when $p$ tends to infinity, a variational inequality with a curl constraint. We also discuss the existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on the data of the solutions to general variational inequalities with curl constraints dependent on time, as well as the asymptotic stabilization in time towards the stationary solution with and without constraint.
Citation: Fernando Miranda, José-Francisco Rodrigues, Lisa Santos. On a p-curl system arising in electromagnetism. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2012, 5 (3) : 605-629. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.605
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