Energy solutions for polymer aqueous solutions in two dimension Original Research Article

The aim of this article is to study a nonlinear system modeling a Non-Newtonian fluid of polymer aqueous solutions. We are interested here in the existence of weak solutions for the stationary problem in a bounded plane domain or in two-dimensional exterior domain. Due to the third order of derivatives in the non-linear term, it’s difficult to obtain solutions satisfying energy inequality. But with a good choice of boundary conditions, an adapted special basis and the use of the good properties of the trilinear form associated to the non-linear term, we obtain energy solutions. The problem in bounded domains is treated and the more difficult problem on non bounded domains too.