Small volume-fraction limit of the diblock copolymer problem. II: Diffuse-interface functional

DOI10.1137/10079330XzbMATH Open1223.49056arXiv1004.4271OpenAlexW2964003705WikidataQ59874006 ScholiaQ59874006MaRDI QIDQ3174623FDOQ3174623

Mark A. Peletier, Rustum Choksi

Publication date: 11 October 2011

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present the second of two articles on the small volume fraction limit of a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard functional introduced to model microphase separation of diblock copolymers. After having established the results for the sharp-interface version of the functional (arXiv:0907.2224), we consider here the full diffuse-interface functional and address the limit in which epsilon and the volume fraction tend to zero but the number of minority phases (called particles) remains O(1). Using the language of Gamma-convergence, we focus on two levels of this convergence, and derive first- and second-order effective energies, whose energy landscapes are simpler and more transparent. These limiting energies are only finite on weighted sums of delta functions, corresponding to the concentration of mass into `point particles'. At the highest level, the effective energy is entirely local and contains information about the size of each particle but no information about their spatial distribution. At the next level we encounter a Coulomb-like interaction between the particles, which is responsible for the pattern formation. We present the results in three dimensions and comment on their two-dimensional analogues.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4271

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergencediblock copolymersnonlocal Cahn-Hilliard problemsmall volume-fraction limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K30) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Existence of optimal solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.) (49J30) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Analysis of microstructure in solids (74N15)

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