Analysis of the heteroclinic connection in a singularly perturbed system arising from the study of crystalline grain boundaries

DOI10.4171/IFB/139MaRDI QIDQ851446zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul C. Fife, Nicholas D. Alikakos, Giorgio Fusco, Christos Sourdis

Publication date 21 November 2006

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/IFB/139

zbMATH Keywords

crystalline interphase boundariesequations of Hamiltonian typeheteroclinic connectionssingular perturbationspectral stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics of phase boundaries in solids (74N20)

Review text

Summary: Mathematically, the problem considered here is that of heteroclinic connections for a system of two second order differential equations of Hamiltonian type, in which a small parameter \(\varepsilon\) conveys a singular perturbation. The motivation comes from a multi-order-parameter phase field model developed by \textit{R. J. Braun, J. W. Cahn, G. B. McFadden} and A. A. Wheeler [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 355, No. 1730, 1787--1833 (1997; Zbl 1067.74513)] and \textit{G. B. Tanoglu} [Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Delaware, Dept. Appl. Math. (2000)] for the description of crystalline interphase boundaries. In this, the smallness of \(\varepsilon\) is related to large anisotropy. The existence of such a heteroclinic, and its dependence on \(\varepsilon\), is proved. In addition, its robustness is investigated by establishing its spectral stability.

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