Analysis of a Regularized Bingham Model with Pressure-Dependent Yield Stress

The goal of this article is to provide some essential results for the solution of a regularized viscoplastic frictional flow model adapted from the extensive mathematical analysis of the Bingham model. The Bingham model is a standard for the description of viscoplastic flows and it is widely used in many application areas. However, wet granular viscoplastic flows necessitate the introduction of additional non-linearities and coupling between velocity and stress fields. This article proposes a step toward a frictional coupling, characterized by a dependence of the yield stress to the pressure field. A regularized version of this viscoplastic frictional model is analysed in the framework of stationary flows. Existence, uniqueness and regularity are investigated, as well as finite-dimensional and algorithmic approximations. It is shown that the model can be solved and approximated as far as a frictional parameter is small enough. Getting similar results for the non-regularized model remains an issue. Numerical investigations are postponed to further works.