Title
An Approach to Nonlinear Viscoelasticity via Metric Gradient Flows.
Abstract
We formulate quasistatic nonlinear finite-strain viscoelasticity of rate type as a gradient system. Our focus is on nonlinear dissipation functionals and distances that are related to metrics on weak diffeomorphisms and that ensure time-dependent frame indifference of the viscoelastic stress. In the multidimensional case we discuss which dissipation distances allow for the solution of the time-incremental problem. Because of the missing compactness the limit of vanishing timesteps can be obtained only by proving some kind of strong convergence. We show that this is possible in the one-dimensional case by using a suitably generalized convexity in the sense of geodesic convexity of gradient flows. For a general class of distances we derive discrete evolutionary variational inequalities and are able to pass to the time-continuous limit in a specific case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1137/130927632
SIAM JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonlinear viscoelasticity,gradient flow,dissipative distance,generalized geodesics
Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,Convexity,Nonlinear system,Geodesic convexity,Mathematical analysis,Quasistatic process,Compact space,Balanced flow,Mathematics,Variational inequality
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
2
0036-1410
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Mielke1318.35
Christoph Ortner27416.77
Yasemin Sengül300.34