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Meccanica, 2024, 59(10), 1703-1730
Navier–Stokes–Fourier equations
Dissipative heating
Oberbeck–Boussinesq system
Non-Newtonian fluids
Large-data existence
We consider a flow of non-Newtonian incompressible heat conducting fluids with dissipative heating. Such system can be obtained by scaling the classical Navier-Stokes-Fourier problem. As one possible singular limit may be obtained the so-called Oberbeck-Boussinesq system. However, this model is not suitable for studying the systems with high temperature gradient. These systems are described in much better way by completing the Oberbeck-Boussinesq system by an additional dissipative heating. The satisfactory existence result for such system was however not available. In this paper we show the large-data and the long-time existence of
dissipative and suitable weak solution. This is the starting point for further analysis of the stability
properties of such problems.