Global weak solution for a heat and sweat transport system in three-dimensional fibrous porous media with condensation/evaporation and absorption

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1448-1473
Journal / PublicationSIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Volume44
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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This paper is concerned with heat and moisture transport in three-dimensional porous textile media with complex phase change, condensation/evaporation, and absorption. The physical process is described as multiphase and multicomponent (air, vapor, water, and heat) flow governed by a system of nonlinear, degenerate, and strongly coupled parabolic equations. In this paper, we prove global existence of a positive weak solution under the physical assumption that the initial and background temperatures are not higher than about 1000K. © 2012 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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  • Absorption, Condensation/evaporation, Existence, Multicomponent, Porous media

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