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Thermistor systems of p(x)-Laplace type with discontinuous exponents via entropy solutions

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  • We show the existence of solutions to a system of elliptic PDEs, that was recently introduced to describe the electrothermal behavior of organic semiconductor devices. Here, two diffculties appear: (i) the elliptic term in the current-flow equation is of p(x)-Laplacian type with discontinuous exponent p, which limits the use of standard methods, and (ii) in the heat equation, we have to deal with an a priori L1 term on the right hand side describing the Joule heating in the device. We prove the existence of a weak solution under very weak assumptions on the data. Our existence proof is based on Schauder’s fixed point theorem and the concept of entropy solutions for the heat equation. Here, the crucial point is the continuous dependence of the entropy solutions on the data of the problem.

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Author:Miroslav Bulicek, Annegret Glitzky, Matthias Liero
URN:urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-13962
Referee:Frank Schmidt
Document Type:Preprint, Research Center Matheon
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2016/11/23
Release Date:2016/11/23
Tag:Sobolev spaces with variable exponent; entropy solution; existence of weak solution; heat transfer; p(x)-Laplacian; thermistor system
Institute:Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
Project:D Optics and Electronics (Electronic and photonic devices) / D-SE2 Electrothermal modeling of large-area OLEDs
MSC-Classification:35-XX PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / 35Jxx Elliptic equations and systems [See also 58J10, 58J20] / 35J57 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems
35-XX PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / 35Jxx Elliptic equations and systems [See also 58J10, 58J20] / 35J92 Quasilinear elliptic equations with p-Laplacian
35-XX PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / 35Qxx Equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application [See also 35J05, 35J10, 35K05, 35L05] / 35Q80 PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer
80-XX CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS, HEAT TRANSFER (For thermodynamics of solids, see 74A15) / 80Axx Thermodynamics and heat transfer / 80A20 Heat and mass transfer, heat flow
Preprint Number:1114
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