Eigenvalues of inequalities of reaction-diffusion type and destabilizing effect of unilateral conditions
The paper deals with a model for water freezing in a deformable elastoplastic container. The mathematical problem consists of a system of one parabolic equation for temperature, one integrodifferential equation with a hysteresis operator for local volume increment, and one differential inclusion for the water content. The problem is shown to admit a unique global uniformly bounded weak solution.
We consider a two dimensional elastic body submitted to unilateral contact conditions, local friction and adhesion on a part of his boundary. After discretizing the variational formulation with respect to time we use a smoothing technique to approximate the friction term by an auxiliary problem. A shifting technique enables us to obtain the existence of incremental solutions with bounds independent of the regularization parameter. We finally obtain the existence of a quasistatic solution...
One proves, in the case of piecewise smooth coefficients, that the time derivative of the solution of the so called dam problem is a measure, extending the result proved by the same authors in the case of Lipschitz continuous coefficients.