some remarks on growth and uniqueness in thermoelasticity一些评论在热弹性增长和独特性.pdf

IJMMS 2003:10, 617–623 PII. S0161171203108319 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. SOME REMARKS ON GROWTH AND UNIQUENESS IN THERMOELASTICITY RAMÓN QUINTANILLA Received 13 August 2001 and in revised form 16 June 2002 We use the Lagrange identity method and the logarithmic convexity to obtain uniqueness and exponential growth of solutions in the thermoelasticity of type III and thermoelasticity without energy dissipation. As this is not the first contri- bution of this kind in this theory, it is worth remarking that the assumptions we use here are different from those used in other previous contributions. We assume that the elasticity tensor is positive semidefinite, but we allow that the constitu- tive tensor of the entropy flux vector (kij ), which is a characteristic tensor in this theory, is not sign-definite. The Lagrange identity method is used to obtain uniqueness in the context of the thermoelasticity of type III. The fundamental key to obtain exponential growth in the thermoelasticity without energy dissipation is the use of a new functional. This functional is inspired in that it is used when the elasticity tensor is not sign-definite, but (kij ) is positive definite. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q72, 74F05, 74H25. 1. Introduction. The usual theory of heat conduction based on the Fourier law allows the phenomena of the infinite diffusion velocity which is not well accepted from a physical or engineering point of view. The articles of Dreyer and Struchtrup [5] and Caviglia et al. [2] provide an extensive survey of work on experiments involving the propagation of heat as a thermal wave. They report instances where the phenomena of second sound has been observed in several kind of materials. This kind of fact has provoked an