Energy barrier and -convergence in the d-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation

DOI10.1007/S00526-014-0806-XzbMATH Open1327.49022arXiv1404.5913OpenAlexW1969787900WikidataQ115387367 ScholiaQ115387367MaRDI QIDQ493213FDOQ493213

Authors: Michael Gelantalis, Maria G. Westdickenberg 

Publication date: 11 September 2015

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the d-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation on the flat torus in a parameter regime in which the system size is large and the mean value is close---but not too close---to -1. We are particularly interested in a quantitative description of the energy landscape in the case in which the uniform state is a local but not global energy minimizer. In this setting, we derive a sharp leading order estimate of the size of the energy barrier surrounding the uniform state. A sharp interface version of the proof leads to a $Gamma$-limit of the rescaled energy gap between a given function and the uniform state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5913

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergenceCahn-Hilliard equationlower boundenergy functionalenergy barrier

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Variational inequalities (49J40) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35)

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