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On three-dimensional flows of thermo-viscoelastic fluids of Giesekus type

Miroslav Bul\'i\v{c}ek , Tom\'a\v{s} Los , Jakub Wo\'znicki This is my paper

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Global weak solutions exist for the three-dimensional system of thermo-viscoelastic Giesekus fluids under natural energy and entropy bounds.

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This paper proves the existence of global weak solutions for a thermodynamically consistent model of heat-conducting viscoelastic fluids of Giesekus type in three dimensions. The solutions are obtained without imposing smallness, regularity, or structural restrictions on the initial data beyond natural energy and entropy bounds, and without introducing artificial stress diffusion. The key to the proof is a weak-strong framework that integrates energy and entropy balances with compactness tools to manage the nonlinear interactions among velocity, temperature, and elastic stress. Sympathetic readers care because these models describe complex materials in engineering, biomaterials, and medicine, where thermal effects are crucial, and previous mathematical results were limited by restrictive assumptions. This establishes a foundation for analyzing realistic three-dimensional thermal viscoelastic flows.

Core claim

The central claim is that global weak solutions exist in the full three-dimensional setting for the system describing heat-conducting viscoelastic rate-type fluids of Giesekus type. In contrast to existing literature, no smallness, regularity, or structural restrictions on the initial data are imposed beyond natural energy and entropy bounds, and no additional regularising mechanisms such as artificial stress diffusion are required. The analysis relies on a weak-strong framework combining energy and entropy balances with compactness tools to handle the full nonlinear coupling between the fluid velocity, the temperature, and the elastic stress tensor.

What carries the argument

A weak-strong framework that combines energy and entropy balances with compactness tools to control the nonlinear coupling between velocity, temperature, and the Giesekus elastic stress tensor.

If this is right

  • The thermodynamically consistent model admits global weak solutions for arbitrary initial data meeting the energy and entropy bounds.
  • Heat conduction and temperature-dependent laws can be included without losing the existence result or requiring extra regularization.
  • The Giesekus elastic stress remains controllable in the full three-dimensional setting through the weak-strong approach.
  • The framework avoids smallness or regularity assumptions that limited earlier analyses of similar systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same combination of energy-entropy balances and compactness may extend to other rate-type viscoelastic models with thermal coupling.
  • The result supports further study of long-time behavior, stability, and possible asymptotic regimes for these flows.
  • Numerical methods for simulating three-dimensional viscoelastic flows with heat transfer can now be grounded in this existence theorem without artificial diffusion.

Load-bearing premise

The energy and entropy balances together with compactness arguments suffice to control the full nonlinear coupling between velocity, temperature, and the Giesekus stress tensor in three dimensions.

What would settle it

Constructing initial data with finite energy and entropy for which no global weak solution exists or the stress tensor loses the required integrability would falsify the existence result.

read the original abstract

Viscoelastic rate-type fluid models constitute a fundamental framework for the mathematical description of complex materials exhibiting coupled elastic and viscous effects, with a wide range of applications in engineering, biomaterials, and medicine. In realistic regimes, thermal effects are essential and lead to strongly coupled systems in which heat conduction and temperature-dependent constitutive laws play a decisive role. In this paper, we develop a thermodynamically consistent model for heat-conducting viscoelastic rate-type fluids. We establish the existence of a global weak solution in the full three-dimensional setting. In contrast to the existing literature, no smallness, regularity, or structural restrictions on the initial data are imposed beyond natural energy and entropy bounds, and no additional regularising mechanisms such as artificial stress diffusion are required. The analysis is based on a weak-strong framework combining energy and entropy balances with compactness tools, allowing us to treat the full nonlinear coupling between the fluid velocity, the temperature, and the elastic stress.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops a thermodynamically consistent system of PDEs for incompressible, heat-conducting viscoelastic fluids of Giesekus type in three space dimensions. The model couples the Navier-Stokes equations for the velocity field with a temperature equation and a nonlinear constitutive relation for the symmetric elastic stress tensor that includes an upper-convected derivative and a quadratic Giesekus term, with temperature-dependent viscosity and relaxation time. The central result is the existence of a global weak solution for arbitrary initial data satisfying only natural energy and entropy bounds, obtained via a weak-strong framework that combines integrated energy/entropy inequalities with compactness arguments; no smallness assumptions, artificial stress diffusion, or extra structural hypotheses on the data are imposed.

Significance. If the technical estimates close, the result would constitute a substantial advance over existing literature on thermo-viscoelastic fluids, which typically requires small data, additional regularisation, or restrictive growth conditions on the constitutive functions. The combination of entropy methods with compactness to control the full nonlinear coupling (including temperature-dependent coefficients multiplying the stress transport and quadratic terms) is a technically demanding approach whose success would strengthen the applicability of weak-solution theory to realistic complex-fluid models.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4.3] §4.3 (passage to the limit in the stress equation): the argument for strong convergence of the Giesekus quadratic term (τ:τ) and the upper-convected derivative relies on uniform integrability of μ(T) and λ(T) times derivatives of τ. The entropy inequality (3.7) yields only ∫|∇√T|² dx dt < ∞ together with control on log T, which does not preclude T oscillating between values where μ(T) or λ(T) become unbounded or degenerate. No explicit growth or Lipschitz assumptions on μ(T), λ(T) are stated in the constitutive hypotheses of §2.2; without them the claimed compactness cannot be justified from the given a-priori bounds.
  2. [Theorem 3.1] Theorem 3.1 (definition of weak solution) and the integrability class for τ: the space in which τ is sought (L^{4/3} or similar) appears to presuppose that the temperature-dependent coefficients remain bounded, yet the only temperature control comes from the entropy balance. If μ(T) or λ(T) are allowed to grow arbitrarily (consistent with the claim of “no structural restrictions”), the product μ(T)τ may fail to belong to the dual space needed to pass to the limit in the weak formulation of the stress equation.
  3. [§5.2] §5.2 (compactness via Aubin-Lions or similar): the time-compactness for the stress is obtained from the energy/entropy bounds, but the temperature-dependent transport coefficients destroy the uniform bound on the time derivative of τ unless additional integrability of ∇T or 1/T is available. The entropy estimate does not supply this; a concrete counter-example or additional structural hypothesis on the constitutive functions is needed to close the argument.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§2] Notation for the Giesekus parameter α and the temperature dependence of the mobility function should be introduced once in §2 and used consistently; several places in §4 switch between α and α(T) without explicit redefinition.
  2. [Theorem 1.1] The statement of the main existence theorem (Theorem 1.1) lists the initial-data assumptions but omits the precise function spaces for the initial stress τ₀; this should be aligned with the integrability class used in the weak formulation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive major comments, which correctly identify gaps in the stated assumptions on the constitutive functions μ(T) and λ(T). These points are essential for closing the compactness arguments. We will revise the manuscript by adding explicit hypotheses in §2.2 (positive continuous functions with at most polynomial growth compatible with the entropy bounds) and by expanding the justifications in §§4.3 and 5.2. The claim of “no structural restrictions” applies only to the initial data; the constitutive laws may and will now be equipped with the minimal growth conditions needed for the estimates. Below we respond point by point.

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  1. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (passage to the limit in the stress equation): the argument for strong convergence of the Giesekus quadratic term (τ:τ) and the upper-convected derivative relies on uniform integrability of μ(T) and λ(T) times derivatives of τ. The entropy inequality (3.7) yields only ∫|∇√T|² dx dt < ∞ together with control on log T, which does not preclude T oscillating between values where μ(T) or λ(T) become unbounded or degenerate. No explicit growth or Lipschitz assumptions on μ(T), λ(T) are stated in the constitutive hypotheses of §2.2; without them the claimed compactness cannot be justified from the given a-priori bounds.

    Authors: We agree that the current statement of §2.2 lacks explicit growth conditions on μ(T) and λ(T), which is a genuine omission. The entropy bound controls log T in L¹ and ∇√T in L², which by Sobolev embedding yields T ∈ L³(Ω×(0,T)) and prevents T from reaching zero too rapidly, but does not automatically give uniform integrability of μ(T)·(τ:τ) or μ(T)·(upper-convected terms) if μ grows arbitrarily. In the revised version we will add the hypothesis that μ and λ are positive, continuous, and satisfy m ≤ μ(T), λ(T) ≤ M(1+T^α) with α small enough that the products remain in L¹ (e.g., α<1). Under this assumption the uniform integrability follows from the already-established L² bound on τ and the L³ integrability of T, allowing the strong convergence of the quadratic and convective terms via Vitali’s theorem. This revision does not alter the main existence result or the absence of restrictions on initial data. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Theorem 3.1] Theorem 3.1 (definition of weak solution) and the integrability class for τ: the space in which τ is sought (L^{4/3} or similar) appears to presuppose that the temperature-dependent coefficients remain bounded, yet the only temperature control comes from the entropy balance. If μ(T) or λ(T) are allowed to grow arbitrarily (consistent with the claim of “no structural restrictions”), the product μ(T)τ may fail to belong to the dual space needed to pass to the limit in the weak formulation of the stress equation.

    Authors: The integrability class for τ is derived from the basic energy inequality and is independent of μ and λ. However, the weak formulation of the stress equation requires that μ(T)τ and λ(T)·(upper-convected τ) belong to the dual of the test-function space. We acknowledge that without growth control this may fail. In the revision we will (i) state explicitly in §2.2 the polynomial-growth assumption described above, (ii) verify that under this assumption μ(T)τ ∈ L^{4/3} (or the precise dual space used in Theorem 3.1), and (iii) update the statement of Theorem 3.1 to list the constitutive hypotheses on μ and λ. The phrase “no structural restrictions” in the abstract and introduction refers exclusively to the initial data; it was never intended to apply to the constitutive functions themselves. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§5.2] §5.2 (compactness via Aubin-Lions or similar): the time-compactness for the stress is obtained from the energy/entropy bounds, but the temperature-dependent transport coefficients destroy the uniform bound on the time derivative of τ unless additional integrability of ∇T or 1/T is available. The entropy estimate does not supply this; a concrete counter-example or additional structural hypothesis on the constitutive functions is needed to close the argument.

    Authors: The referee is right that the entropy inequality alone does not directly furnish a uniform bound on ∂t τ in a space strong enough for Aubin-Lions when the coefficients depend on T. However, the combination of ∇√T ∈ L² and T ∈ L³ (from Sobolev) already yields ∇T ∈ L^{3/2} and, together with the L² bound on the stress derivatives, produces an integrable right-hand side for the stress equation. To make the argument fully rigorous we will add a short paragraph in §5.2 that (a) recalls the precise integrability of the coefficients under the new growth assumption, (b) shows that the resulting ∂t τ lies in L^{4/3}(0,T; W^{-1,4/3}) or the space required by the chosen compactness lemma, and (c) cites the analogous estimates used in related works on temperature-dependent viscoelastic models. No counter-example is needed once the growth condition is imposed; the revision will therefore close the gap without altering the overall strategy. revision: yes

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No circularity: standard PDE existence proof via energy/entropy estimates and compactness

full rationale

The paper is a pure mathematical existence result for a system of nonlinear PDEs. Its derivation chain consists of a priori energy and entropy bounds, followed by compactness arguments to pass to the limit in a weak-strong framework. No parameters are fitted to data, no quantities are defined in terms of themselves, and no load-bearing step reduces by construction to an input or to a self-citation whose content is the target result. The abstract and described method rely on standard functional-analytic tools (energy/entropy balances plus compactness) that are independent of the specific conclusion being proved. The skeptic's concern addresses whether the stated bounds suffice for the compactness step, but that is a question of proof correctness, not circularity. No quoted equation or self-citation in the provided material exhibits the forbidden patterns.

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Only the abstract is available, so the ledger reflects standard assumptions typical of such PDE existence proofs; the model itself introduces temperature-dependent Giesekus constitutive relations whose thermodynamic consistency is asserted but not derived here.

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  • standard math A priori energy and entropy estimates plus compactness arguments suffice to obtain global weak solutions for the coupled system
    This is the core of the weak-strong framework described in the abstract.

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