A generalized conserved phase-field system based on type III heat conduction (Q2871128)

This paper studies the phase-field system NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} +\Delta^2 u -\Delta f(u)=-\Delta \frac{\partial \alpha}{\partial t}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{\partial^2 \alpha}{\partial t^2} -\Delta \frac{\partial \alpha}{\partial t}-\Delta \alpha=-\frac{\partial u}{\partial t},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE generalizing the phase-field system of Caginalp. Here \(u\) is an order parameter and \(\alpha\) a thermal displacement variable, so that \(\frac{\partial \alpha}{\partial t}\) represents temperature. This is base on a heat conduction law known as type III law. The problem treated in a bounded and regular domain in \(\mathbb R^2\) or \(\mathbb R^3\) with appropriate Neumann boundary conditions, with some conditions imposed on the nonlinearity \(f\). Existence of a finite dimensional exponential attractor for the semigroup corresponding to the equation is proved.