A variational principle for nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2016.12.002zbMATH Open1386.35252arXiv1605.00801OpenAlexW2964027936MaRDI QIDQ501635FDOQ501635

Stefano Melchionna

Publication date: 9 January 2017

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a variational approach to nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies in Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions to elliptic-in-time regularizations of gradient flows by combining the minimization of a parameter-dependent functional over entire trajectories and a fixed-point argument. These regularized solutions converge up to subsequence to solutions of the gradient flow as the regularization parameter goes to zero. Applications of the abstract theory to nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems are presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00801

zbMATH Keywords

gradient flowsreaction-diffusion equationsvariational principledissipative evolution equationnonconvex energies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Abstract parabolic equations (35K90) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27)

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