Global and exponential attractors for a Ginzburg-Landau model of superfluidity (Q631291)

The main subject of the paper is the long time behaviour of the solutions to a nonisothermal model in superfluidity. The model fits to the framework of Ginzburg-Landau theory and is thermodynamically consistent. The authors first sketch the derivation of the model based on a suitable decomposition, show how to tackle nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, and introduce a priori estimates. Then they use the theory of semigroups and Lyapunov functionals to prove the existence of a global attractor which coincides with the unstable manifold generated by steady solutions to the corresponding stationary problem. In the last section, they also pay attention to the existence of exponential attractors. The paper is very well written with many helpful references.