The Weak Solvability of an Inhomogeneous Dynamic Problem for a Viscoelastic Continuum with Memory

Abstract

The existence of a weak solution to the initial boundary value problem for the equations of motion of a viscoelastic fluid with memory along the trajectories of a nonsmooth velocity field with inhomogeneous boundary condition is proved. The analysis involves Galerkin-type approximations of the original problem followed by the passage to the limit based on a priori estimates. To study the behavior of trajectories of a nonsmooth velocity field, the theory of regular Lagrangian flows is used.