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To describe the flows of fluids over a wide range of pressures, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the viscosity of the fluid depends on the pressure. That the viscosity depends on the pressure has been verified by numerous careful experiments. While the existence of solutions local-in-time to the equations governing the flows of such fluids are available for small, special data and rather unrealistic dependence of the viscosity on the pressure, no global existence results are in place. Our interest here is to establish the existence of weak solutions for spatially periodic three-dimensional flows that are global in time, for a large class of physically meaningful viscosity-pressure relationships.
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(Accepted May 1, 2002) Published online November 15, 2002
Communicated by S. S. ANTMAN
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MÁLEK, J., NEČAS, J. & RAJAGOPAL, K. Global Analysis of the Flows of Fluids with Pressure-Dependent Viscosities. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 165, 243–269 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-002-0219-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-002-0219-4