Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy

DOI10.1063/1.1744102zbMath1431.35066MaRDI QIDQ5218672

John W. Cahn, John E. Hilliard

Publication date: 4 March 2020

Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1744102

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K55: Nonlinear parabolic equations

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

35K65: Degenerate parabolic equations

49J20: Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations

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