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Uniqueness of solutions to a mathematical model describing moisture transport in concrete materials
Author(s) -
Toyohiko Aiki,
Kota Kumazaki
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
networks and heterogeneous media
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.732
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1556-181X
pISSN - 1556-1801
DOI - 10.3934/nhm.2014.9.683
Subject(s) - uniqueness , operator (biology) , boundary value problem , mathematics , mathematical analysis , moisture , hysteresis , weak solution , ordinary differential equation , differential equation , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , repressor , quantum mechanics , meteorology , transcription factor , gene
When dealing with concrete materials it is always a big issue how to deal with the moisture transport. Here, we consider a mathematical model for moisture transport, which is given as a system consisting of the diffusion equation for moisture and of the ordinary differential equation which describes a hysteresis operator. In [3] we already proved the existence of a time global solution of an initial boundary value problem of this system, however, the uniqueness is obtained only for one dimensional domains. The main purpose of this paper is to establish the uniqueness of a solution of our problem in three dimensional domains under the assumption of the smooth boundary and initial data.

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