Nonstandard micro-inertia terms in the relaxed micromorphic model: well-posedness for dynamics

Abstract: We study the existence of solutions arising from the modelling of elastic materials using generalized theories of continua. In view of some evidence from physics of meta-materials we focus our effort on two recent nonstandard relaxed micromorphic models including novel micro-inertia terms. These novel micro-inertia terms are needed to better capture the band-gap response. The existence proof is based on the Banach fixed point theorem.