Traveling waves for models of phase transitions of solids driven by configurational forces (Q628796)

The authors study the existence of smooth traveling wave solutions, including standing wave solutions, for the phase field models in [\textit{H. D. Alber} and \textit{P. Zhu}, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 185, No. 2, 235--286 (2007; Zbl 1117.74045), SIAM J. Appl. Math. 66, No. 2, 680--699 (2005; Zbl 1096.35068)]. The models are formulated for materials with two different phases, (phase 1 and phase 2) in which the order parameter \(v=v(x,t)\in\mathbb{R}\) is assumed to take values near \(v_{-}\) or \(v_{+}\) if the material is in the phase 1 or 2, respectively. Let \(u=(u^{i}(x,t))\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\) be the displacement of the material. Then the first model,, in which the order parameter is not conserved, is formulated as \[ -\text{div}_{x}T=B, \] \[ v_{t}=-(\psi_{_{v}}(\varepsilon,v)-\Delta_{x}v)|\nabla_{x}v|. \] The second model is the following \[ -\text{div}_{x}T=B, \] \[ v_{t}=\text{div}_{x}\big(\nabla_{x}(\psi_{_{v}}(\varepsilon,v)-\Delta_{x}v)|\nabla_{x}v|\big). \] The main purpose of the article is to study the existence of traveling wave and standing wave solutions for these problems.