Interface dynamics in discrete forward-backward diffusion equations

DOI10.1137/130915959MaRDI QIDQ5411178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Helmers, Michael Herrmann

Publication date 22 April 2014

Published in Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1693

zbMATH Keywords

coarse graining for gradient flowsforward-backward diffusion in latticeshysteretic models for phase transitionspinning and depinning of interfacesregularization of ill-posed parabolic PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Ill-posed problems for PDEs (35R25) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Lattice dynamics and infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L60) Dynamics of phase boundaries in solids (74N20) Problems involving hysteresis in solids (74N30)

Abstract: We study the motion of phase interfaces in a diffusive lattice equation with bistable nonlinearity and derive a free boundary problem with hysteresis to describe the macroscopic evolution in the parabolic scaling limit. The first part of the paper deals with general bistable nonlinearities and is restricted to numerical experiments and heuristic arguments. We discuss the formation of macroscopic data and present numerical evidence for pinning, depinning, and annihilation of interfaces. Afterwards we identify a generalized Stefan condition along with a hysteretic flow rule that characterize the dynamics of both standing and moving interfaces. In the second part, we rigorously justify the limit dynamics for single-interface data and a special piecewise affine nonlinearity. We prove persistence of such data, derive upper bounds for the macroscopic interface speed, and show that the macroscopic limit can indeed be described by the free boundary problem. The fundamental ingredient to our proofs is a representation formula that links the solutions of the nonlinear lattice to the discrete heat kernel and enables us to derive macroscopic compactness results in the space of continuous functions.

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