Asymptotic analysis of a conserved phase-field model with memory for vanishing time relaxation (Q2733869)

This paper is devoted to a system of partial differential equations governing the evolution of two unknown fields \(\theta\) and \(X\), NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} (\theta+ \ell x)-\Delta (k*\theta) =g\quad &\text{in }Q:=\Omega \times(0,T)\\ \mu x_t-\Delta (-\Delta x+x^3- x-\ell\theta) =0\quad &\text{in }Q. \end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE Here, \(\ell\) is a positive constant representing the latent heat, \(g:Q\to \mathbb{R}\) a source term, \(k\in L^1(0,t)\), \(t>0\), \(\mu\) is the relaxation parameter, and the convolution \(k*\theta\) is defined by NEWLINE\[NEWLINE(k*\theta) (x,t)= \int^t_0 k(t-s)\theta (x,s)ds,\quad (x,t)\in Q.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The author is mainly interested in the asymptotic behaviour of the solution as the time relaxation coefficient goes to zero. Convergence results and error estimates are obtained when the latent heat is sufficiently large \(\ell\gg 1\).