STEADY-STATE THERMAL HERSCHEL-BULKLEY FLOW WITH TRESCA'S FRICTION LAW.

We consider a mathematical model which describes the steadystate flow of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid whose the consistency and the yield limit depend on the temperature and with mixed boundary conditions, including a frictional boundary condition. We derive a weak formulation of the coupled system of motion and energy equations which consists of a variational inequality for the velocity field. We prove the existence of weak solutions. In the asymptotic limit case of a high thermal conductivity, the temperature becomes a constant solving an implicit total energy equation involving the consistency function and the yield limit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]