Abstract: | A method of constructing dual variational principles for problems of the seepage of an incompressible fluid in deformable media with complex rheology is presented. Dual variational principles of the fluid seepage in a typical deformable media with complex rheology [1, 2], namely, a Maxwell element, connected in parallel with a visco-plastic or elastic element, are constructed. The variational principles are derived from variational problems compiled for the constitutive relations for fluid and solid phases. |