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

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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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Miroslav Bulíček, Tomáš Los, Jakub Woźnicki. 2026-04-30. On three-dimensional flows of thermo-viscoelastic fluids of Giesekus type. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27978

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