On Uniqueness and Continuous Dependence in the Theory of Micropolar Thermoelastic Mixtures

This paper studies questions of continuous data dependence and uniqueness for solutions of initial boundary value problems in linear micropolar thermoelastic mixtures. Logarithmic convexity arguments are used to establish results with no definiteness assumptions upon the internal energy.

• Catalin Gales
• Ionel Dumitrel Ghiba

• Cellular materials
• continuous dependence
• micro polar mixtures
• uniqueness.

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