Pearling bifurcations in the strong functionalized Cahn-Hilliard free energy

DOI10.1137/16M1108406zbMATH Open1406.35039arXiv1711.00396OpenAlexW2963566052WikidataQ129615467 ScholiaQ129615467MaRDI QIDQ4570973FDOQ4570973

Authors: Noa Kraitzman, Keith Promislow 

Publication date: 5 July 2018

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

Abstract: The Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard free energy supports phase separated morphologies of distinct codimension, including codimension-one bilayer and codimension-two filament morphologies. We characterize the linear stability of bilayer and filament morphologies associated to hypersurfaces within the strong functionalization scaling. In particular we show that the onset of the pearling instability, which triggers fast in-plane oscillations associated to bifurcation to higher codimensional morphology, is controlled by the functionalization parameters and the spatially constant value of the far-field chemical potential. Crucially, we show that onset of pearling is independent of the shape of the defining hypersurface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00396

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zbMATH Keywords

generic hypersurfacespearling stabilitystrong functionalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues, asymptotic theory of eigenfunctions for ordinary differential operators (34L20) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25)

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