Existence of solutions to a two-dimensional model for nonisothermal two-phase flows of incompressible fluids (Q342585)

The authors discuss a mathematical model for two-phase flows of non-isothermal incompressible fluids in a bounded container from \(R^2\), in a finite time interval \((0,T)\), with no restrictions on the magnitude of the final positive time \(T\). The PDE system describes the evolution of the following unknown variables: macroscopic velocity, order parameter, chemical potential and absolute temperature. The equations from this system are: -- a variant of the Navier-Stokes system; -- a form of the Cahn-Hilliard system for phase separation; -- an internal energy equation describing the evolution of the temperature. The main results of the paper are the uniqueness of solutions, as well as their long-time behavior, both in terms of trajectories and of attractors.