On a system of coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations

DOI10.1016/J.NONRWA.2022.103601MaRDI QIDQ2147494zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Di Primio, Maurizio Grasselli

Publication date 20 June 2022

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Real World Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12970

zbMATH Keywords

regularizationwell-posednesssingular potentialsconvergence to equilibriumstrict separation propertysystems of Cahn-Hilliard equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic systems (35K52)

Abstract: We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture through two order parameters $u$ and $v$. The free energy of this system is a bivariate interaction potential which contains the mixing entropy of the two order parameters and suitable coupling terms. The equations are endowed with initial conditions and homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions both for $u,v$ and for the corresponding chemical potentials. We first prove that the resulting problem is well posed in a weak sense. Then, in the conserved case, we establish that the weak solution regularizes instantaneously. Furthermore, in two spatial dimensions, we show the strict separation property for $u$ and $v$, namely, they both stay uniformly away from the pure phases $pm1$ in finite time. Finally, we investigate the long-time behavior of a finite energy solution showing, in particular, that it converges to a single stationary state.

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