On steady flow of non-Newtonian fluids with frictional boundary conditions in reflexive Orlicz spaces

Abstract

A stationary viscous incompressible non-Newtonian fluid flow problem is studied with a non-polynomial growth of the extra (viscous) part of the Cauchy stress tensor together with a multivalued nonmonotone frictional boundary condition described by the Clarke subdifferential. We provide an abstract result on existence of solution to a subdifferential operator inclusion and a hemivariational inequality in the reflexive Orlicz–Sobolev space setting modeling the flow phenomenon. We establish the existence result, and under additional conditions, also uniqueness of a weak solution in the Orlicz–Sobolev space to the flow problem.