ON NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS WITH A PROPERTY OF RAPID THICKENING UNDER DIFFERENT STIMULUS

Abstract

The paper concerns the model of a flow of non-Newtonian fluid with nonstandard growth conditions of the Cauchy stress tensor. Contrary to standard power-law type rheology, we propose the formulation with the help of the spatially-dependent convex function. This framework includes e.g. rapidly shear thickening and magnetorheological fluids. We provide the existence of weak solutions. The nonstandard growth conditions yield the analytical formulation of the problem in generalized Orlicz spaces. Basing on the energy equality, we exploit the tools of Young measures.