Energy-variational structure in evolution equations

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Main Author: Lasarzik, Robert
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contents We consider different measure-valued solvability concepts from the literature and show that they could be simplified by using the energy-variational structure of the underlying system of partial differential equations. In the considered examples, we prove that a certain class of improved measure-valued solutions can be equivalently expressed as an energy-variational solution. The first concept represents the solution as a high-dimensional Young measure, whether for the second concept, only a scalar auxiliary variable is introduced and the formulation is relaxed to an energy-variational inequality. We investigate four examples: the two-phase Navier--Stokes equations, a quasilinear wave equation, a system stemming from polyconvex elasticity, and the Ericksen--Leslie equations equipped with the Oseen--Frank energy. The wide range of examples suggests that this is a recurrent feature in evolution equations in general.
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spellingShingle Energy-variational structure in evolution equations
Lasarzik, Robert
Analysis of PDEs
35D99, 35R35, 35R45, 35Q35, 35Q74, 76T06
We consider different measure-valued solvability concepts from the literature and show that they could be simplified by using the energy-variational structure of the underlying system of partial differential equations. In the considered examples, we prove that a certain class of improved measure-valued solutions can be equivalently expressed as an energy-variational solution. The first concept represents the solution as a high-dimensional Young measure, whether for the second concept, only a scalar auxiliary variable is introduced and the formulation is relaxed to an energy-variational inequality. We investigate four examples: the two-phase Navier--Stokes equations, a quasilinear wave equation, a system stemming from polyconvex elasticity, and the Ericksen--Leslie equations equipped with the Oseen--Frank energy. The wide range of examples suggests that this is a recurrent feature in evolution equations in general.
title Energy-variational structure in evolution equations
topic Analysis of PDEs
35D99, 35R35, 35R45, 35Q35, 35Q74, 76T06
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11438