Solution concepts for a model of visco-elasto-plasticity with slight compressibility

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contents We study a model for the deformation of a visco-elasto-plastic material that is nearly incompressible. It originates from geophysics, is given in the Eulerian description and combines a Kelvin-Voigt rheology in the spherical part with a Jeffreys-type rheology in the deviatoric part. Despite a constant density, the model allows for non-isochoric deformation and the propagation of pressure waves. An additive decomposition of the strain rate into elastic and inelastic parts leads to an evolution equation for the small elastic strain, which is coupled with an adapted momentum equation. As plasticity is modeled through a non-smooth dissipation potential, we introduce a weak formulation in terms of a variational inequality. Since the well-posedness in such a weak setting is out of reach, we study two possible modifications: the regularization in terms of stress diffusion, and the relaxation of the solvability concept by transition to energy-variational solutions. In both cases, solutions are constructed by the same time-discrete scheme, consisting of solving a saddle-point problem in each time step.
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spellingShingle Solution concepts for a model of visco-elasto-plasticity with slight compressibility
Eiter, Thomas
Analysis of PDEs
35A01, 35A15, 35Q35, 35Q74, 35Q86, 76A10, 74B20
We study a model for the deformation of a visco-elasto-plastic material that is nearly incompressible. It originates from geophysics, is given in the Eulerian description and combines a Kelvin-Voigt rheology in the spherical part with a Jeffreys-type rheology in the deviatoric part. Despite a constant density, the model allows for non-isochoric deformation and the propagation of pressure waves. An additive decomposition of the strain rate into elastic and inelastic parts leads to an evolution equation for the small elastic strain, which is coupled with an adapted momentum equation. As plasticity is modeled through a non-smooth dissipation potential, we introduce a weak formulation in terms of a variational inequality. Since the well-posedness in such a weak setting is out of reach, we study two possible modifications: the regularization in terms of stress diffusion, and the relaxation of the solvability concept by transition to energy-variational solutions. In both cases, solutions are constructed by the same time-discrete scheme, consisting of solving a saddle-point problem in each time step.
title Solution concepts for a model of visco-elasto-plasticity with slight compressibility
topic Analysis of PDEs
35A01, 35A15, 35Q35, 35Q74, 35Q86, 76A10, 74B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17464