Local and global existence of solutions to a fourth-order parabolic equation modeling kinetic roughening and coarsening in thin films

DOI10.4310/CMS.2017.V15.N8.A5arXiv1705.05117MaRDI QIDQ6286673FDOQ6286673

Publication date: 15 May 2017

Abstract: In this paper we study both the Cauchy problem and the initial boundary value problem for the equation

. This equation has been proposed as a continuum model for kinetic roughening and coarsening in thin films. In the Cauchy problem, we obtain that local existence of a weak solution is guaranteed as long as the vector-valued function

is continuous and the initial datum

u_{0}

lies in

C^{1} (m a t h b b R^{N})

with

a b l a u_{0} (x)

being uniformly continuous and bounded on

m a t h b b R^{N}

and that the global existence assertion also holds true if we assume that

is locally Lipschitz and satisfies the growth condition

for some

c > 0, a l p h a i n (2, 3)

,

s u p_{m a t h b b R^{N}} | a b l a u_{0} | < i n f t y

, and the norm of

u_{0}

in the space

L^{f r a c (a l p h a - 1) N 3 - a l p h a} (m a t h b b R^{N})

is sufficiently small. This is done by exploring various properties of the biharmonic heat kernel. In the initial boundary value problem, we assume that

is continuous and satisfies the growth condition

for some

c, a l p h a i n (0, i n f t y)

. Our investigations reveal that if

a l p h a l e q 1

we have global existence of a weak solution, while if

1 < a l p h a < f r a c N^{2} + 2 N + 4 N^{2}

only a local existence theorem can be established. Our method here is based upon a new interpolation inequality, which may be of interest in its own right.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K35) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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