A Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular diffusion

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2012.09.018MaRDI QIDQ695088zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giulio Schimperna, I. Pawłow

Publication date 20 December 2012

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5604

zbMATH Keywords

Cahn-Hilliard-de Gennes modelenergy type weak solutionvariational formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K35) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Singular parabolic equations (35K67) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: In the present work, we address a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a singular diffusion term. The problem is a simplified version with constant mobility of the Cahn-Hilliard-de Gennes model of phase separation in binary, incompressible, isothermal mixtures of polymer molecules. It is proved that, for any final time T, the problem admits a unique energy type weak solution, defined over (0,T). For any s > 0 such solution is classical in the sense of belonging to a suitable Hoelder class over (s,T), and enjoys the property of being separated from the singular values corresponding to pure phases.

Review text

The authors present a mathematical analysis of a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a singular diffusion term. As remarked by the authors, this class of equations is a variant of the Cahn-Hilliard model for phase separation in binary material and a simplified version with constant mobility of the Cahn-Hilliard-de Gennes model of phase separation in binary, incompressible, isothermal mixtures of polymer molecules. Their analysis is based on two main ideas: they exploit the variational structure of the Cahn-Hilliard system and they also use convenient changes of variables. For any final time \(T\), they prove the existence of a unique energy type weak solution, defined over \((0, T )\). For any \(\tau > 0\), they also prove that the weak solution is a local in time classical one. That is, it belongs to a suitable Hölder class over \((\tau , T )\). It also enjoys the property of being separated from the singular values corresponding to the pure phases.

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