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- ItemAn anisotropic, inhomogeneous, elastically modified Gibbs-Thomson law as singular limit of a diffuse interface model(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Garcke, Harald; Kraus, ChristianeWe consider the sharp interface limit of a diffuse phase field model with prescribed total mass taking into account a spatially inhomogeneous anisotropic interfacial energy and an elastic energy. The main aim is the derivation of a weak formulation of an anisotropic, inhomogeneous, elastically modified Gibbs-Thomson law in the sharp interface limit. To this end we show that one can pass to the limit in the weak formulation of the Euler-Lagrange equation of the diffuse phase field energy
- ItemAsymptotic analysis for Korteweg models(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Giesselmann, Jan; Kraus, Christiane; Rohde, ChristianeThis paper deals with a sharp interface limit of the isothermal Navier-Stokes-Korteweg system. The sharp interface limit is performed by matched asymptotic expansions of the fields in powers of the interface width. These expansions are considered in the interfacial region (inner expansions) and in the bulk (outer expansion) and are matched order by order. Particularly we consider the first orders of the corresponding inner equations obtained by a change of coordinates in an interfacial layer. For a specific scaling we establish solvability criteria for these inner equations and recover the results within the general setting of jump conditions for sharp interface models.
- ItemBernstein-Walsh type theorems for real analytic functions in several variables(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2008) Kraus, ChristianeThe aim of this paper is to extend the classical maximal convergence theory of Bernstein and Walsh for holomorphic functions in the complex plane to real analytic functions in R^N. In particular, we investigate the polynomial approximation behavior for functions $F: L to C, L= (Re z, Im z ) : z in K$, of the type $F= g overline h$, where g and h are holomorphic in a neighborhood of a compact set $K subset C^N$. To this end the maximal convergence number $rho(S_c,f)$ for continuous functions f defined on a compact set $S_c subset C^N$ is connected to a maximal convergence number $rho(S_r,F)$ for continuous functions F defined on a compact set $S_r subset R^N$.
- ItemComplete damage in linear elastic materials : modeling, weak formulation and existence results(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, ChristianeWe introduce a complete damage model with a time-depending domain for linear-elastically stressed solids under time-varying Dirichlet boundary conditions. The evolution of the system is described by a doubly nonlinear differential inclusion for the damage process and a quasi-static balance equation for the displacement field. For the introduced complete damage model, we propose a classical formulation and a corresponding suitable weak formulation in an S BV-framework. We show that the classical differential inclusion can be regained from the notion of weak solutions under certain regularity assumptions. The main aim of this work is to prove local-in-time existence and global-in-time existence in some weaker sense for the introduced model. In contrast to incomplete damage theories, the material can be exposed to damage in the proposed model in such a way that the elastic behavior may break down on the damaged parts of the material, i.e. we loose coercivity properties of the free energy. This leads to several mathematical difficulties. For instance, it might occur that not completely damaged material regions are isolated from the Dirichlet boundary. In this case, the deformation field cannot be controlled in the transition from incomplete to complete damage. To tackle this problem, we consider the evolution process on a time-depending domain. In this context, two major challenges arise: Firstly, the time-dependent domain approach leads to jumps in the energy which have to be accounted for in the energy inequality of the notion of weak solutions. To handle this problem, several energy estimates are established by Gamma-convergence techniques. Secondly, the time-depending domain might have bad smoothness properties such that Korn's inequality cannot be applied. To this end, a covering result for such sets with smooth compactly embedded domains has been shown.
- ItemA compressible mixture model with phase transition(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2013) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Giesselmann, Jan; Kraus, ChristianeWe introduce a new thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model of AllenCahn/NavierStokes type for multi-component flows with phase transitions and chemical reactions. For the introduced diffuse interface model, we investigate physically admissible sharp interface limits by matched asymptotic techniques. We consider two scaling regimes, i.e. a non-dissipative and a dissipative regime, where we recover in the sharp interface limit a generalized Allen-Cahn/Euler system for mixtures with chemical reactions in the bulk phases equipped with admissible interfacial conditions. The interfacial conditions satify, for instance, a YoungLaplace and a Stefan type law.
- ItemThe degenerate and non-degenerate Stefan problem with inhomogeneous and anisotropic Gibbs-Thomson law(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Kraus, ChristianeThe Stefan problem is coupled with a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic Gibbs-Thomson condition at the phase boundary. We show the long-time existence of weak solutions for the non-degenerate Stefan problem with a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic Gibbs-Thomson law and a conditional existence result for the corresponding degenerate Stefan problem. To this end approximate solutions are constructed by means of variational functionals with spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic interfacial energy. By passing to the limit, we establish solutions of the Stefan problem with a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic Gibbs-Thomson law in a weak generalized BV-formula
- ItemA degenerating Cahn-Hilliard system coupled with complete damage processes(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, ChristianeComplete damage in elastic solids appears when the material looses all its integrity due to high exposure. In the case of alloys, the situation is quite involved since spinodal decomposition and coarsening also occur at sufficiently low temperatures which may lead locally to high stress peaks. Experimental observations on solder alloys reveal void and crack growth especially at phase boundaries. In this work, we investigate analytically a degenerating PDE system with a time-depending domain for phase separation and complete damage processes under time-varying Dirichlet boundary conditions. The evolution of the system is described by a degenerating parabolic differential equation of fourth order for the concentration, a doubly nonlinear differential inclusion for the damage process and a degenerating quasi-static balance equation for the displacement field. All these equations are strongly nonlinearly coupled....
- ItemA diffuse interface model for quasi-incrompressible flows : sharp interface limits and numerics(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Aki, Gonca; Daube, Johannes; Dreyer, Wolfgang; Giesselmann, Jan; Kränkel, Mirko; Kraus, ChristianeIn this contribution, we investigate a diffuse interface model for quasi–incompressible flows. We determine corresponding sharp interface limits of two different scalings. The sharp interface limit is deduced by matched asymptotic expansions of the fields in powers of the interface. In particular, we study solutions of the derived system of inner equations and discuss the results within the general setting of jump conditions for sharp interface models. Furthermore, we treat, as a subproblem, the convective Cahn–Hilliard equation numerically by a Local Discontinuous Galerkin scheme.
- ItemThe equilibria of vapour-liquid systems revisited(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2007) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Kraus, ChristianeWe study equilibrium conditions of liquid-vapour phase transitions for a single substance at constant temperature. The phase transitions are modelled by a classical sharp interface model with boundary contact energy. We revisit this old problem mainly for the following reasons. Equilibria in a two-phase system can be established either under fixed external pressure or under fixed total volume. These two different settings lead to distinct equilibria, a fact that is usually ignored in the literature. In nature and in most technical processes, the approach of a two-phase system to equilibrium runs at constant pressure, whereas mathematicians prefer to study processes in constant domains, i.e. at constant volume. Furthermore, in the literature the sharp interface of the liquid and the vapour phase is usually described by a surface with high symmetry like a plane interface or a radially symmetric interface which has the shape of the boundary of a ball. In this paper we establish equilibrium conditions for pressure control as well as for volume control with arbitrary shapes of the interface. The results are derived by methods of differential geometry. Further, the common features and differences of pressure and volume control are worked out for some simple cases.
- ItemExistence of weak solutions for a hyperbolic-parabolic phase field system with mixed boundary conditions on non-smooth domains(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2013) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, ChristianeThe aim of this paper is to prove existence of weak solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic evolution inclusions defined on Lipschitz domains with mixed boundary conditions describing, for instance, damage processes and elasticity with inertial effects. To this end, we first present a suitable weak formulation in order to deal with such evolution inclusions. Then, existence of weak solutions is proven by utilizing time-discretization, H2-regularization and variational techniques.
- ItemExistence of weak solutions for a PDE system describing phase separation and damage processes including inertial effects(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, ChristianeIn this paper, we consider a coupled PDE system describing phase separation and damage phenomena in elastically stressed alloys in the presence of inertial effects. The material is considered on a bounded Lipschitz domain with mixed boundary conditions for the displacement variable. The main aim of this work is to establish existence of weak solutions for the introduced hyperbolic-parabolic system. To this end, we first adopt the notion of weak solutions introduced in [HK11]. Then we prove existence of weak solutions by means of regularization, time-discretization and different variational techniques.
- ItemExistence of weak solutions for Cahn-Hilliard systems coupled with elasticity and damage(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, ChristianeThe Cahn-Hilliard model is a typical phase field approach for describing phase separation and coarsening phenomena in alloys. This model has been generalized to the so-called Cahn-Larché system by combining it with elasticity to capture non-neglecting deformation phenomena, which occurs during phase separation in the material. Evolving microstructures such as phase separation and coarsening processes have a strong influence on damage initiation and propagation in alloys. We develop the existing framework of Cahn-Hilliard and Cahn-Larché systems by coupling these systems with a unidirectional evolution inclusion for an internal variable, describing damage processes. After establishing a weak notion of the corresponding evolutionary system, we prove existence of weak solutions for rate-dependent damage processes under certain growth conditions of the energy functional
- ItemExistence of weak solutions for the Cahn-Hilliard reaction model including elastic effects and damage(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Kraus, Christiane; Roggensack, ArneIn this paper, we introduce and study analytically a vectorial Cahn-Hilliard reaction model coupled with rate-dependent damage processes. The recently proposed Cahn-Hilliard reaction model can e.g. be used to describe the behavior of electrodes of lithium-ion batteries as it includes both the intercalation reactions at the surfaces and the separation into different phases. The coupling with the damage process allows considering simultaneously the evolution of a damage field, a second important physical effect occurring during the charging or discharging of lithium-ion batteries. Mathematically, this is realized by a Cahn-Larché system with a non-linear Newton boundary condition for the chemical potential and a doubly non-linear differential inclusion for the damage evolution. We show that this system possesses an underlying generalized gradient structure which incorporates the non-linear Newton boundary condition. Using this gradient structure and techniques from the field of convex analysis we are able to prove constructively the existence of weak solutions of the coupled PDE system.
- ItemExistence results for diffuse interface models describing phase separation and damage(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, ChristianeIn this paper we analytically investigate Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn systems which are coupled with elasticity and uni-directional damage processes. We are interested in the case where the free energy contains logarithmic terms of the chemical concentration variable and quadratic terms of the gradient of the damage variable. For elastic Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn systems coupled with uni-directional damage processes, an appropriate notion of weak solutions is presented as well as an existence result based on certain regularization methods and an higher integrability result for the strain Literaturverz.
- ItemInterface conditions for limits of the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg model(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2008) Hermsdörfer, Katharina; Kraus, Christiane; Kröner, DietmarIn this contribution we will study the behaviour of the pressure across phase boundaries in liquid-vapour flows. As mathematical model we will consider the static version of the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg model which belongs to the class of diffuse interface models. From this static equation a formula for the pressure jump across the phase interface can be derived. If we perform then the sharp interface limit we see that the resulting interface condition for the pressure seems to be inconsistent with classical results of hydrodynamics. Therefore we will present two approaches to recover the results of hydrodynamics in the sharp interface limit at least for special situ
- ItemMaximal convergence theorems for functions of squared modulus holomorphic type and various applications(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Kraus, ChristianeIn this paper we extend the theory of maximal convergence introduced by Walsh to functions of squared modulus holomorphic type. We introduce in accordance to the well-known complex maximal convergence number for holomorphic functions a real maximal convergence number for functions of squared modulus holomorphic type and prove several maximal convergence theorems. We achieve that the real maximal convergence number for F is always greater or equal than the complex maximal convergence number for g and equality occurs if L is a closed disk in R^2. Among other various applications of the resulting approximation estimates we show that for functions F of squared holomorphic type which have no zeros in a closed disk B_r the relation limsupntoinftysqrt[n]En(Br,F)=limsupntoinftysqrt[n]En(partialBr,F) is valid, where E_n is the polynomial approximation error.
- ItemModeling and analysis of a phase field system for damage and phase separation processes in solids(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2013) Bonetti, Elena; Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, Christiane; Segatti, AntonioIn this work, we analytically investigate a multi-component system for describing phase separation and damage processes in solids. The model consists of a parabolic diffusion equation of fourth order for the concentration coupled with an elliptic system with material dependent coefficients for the strain tensor and a doubly nonlinear differential inclusion for the damage function. The main aim of this paper is to show existence of weak solutions for the introduced model, where, in contrast to existing damage models in the literature, different elastic properties of damaged and undamaged material are regarded. To prove existence of weak solutions for the introduced model, we start with an approximation system. Then, by passing to the limit, existence results of weak solutions for the proposed model are obtained via suitable variational techniques.
- ItemModeling and simulation of non-isothermal rate-dependent damage processes in inhomogeneous materials using the phase-field approach(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Kraus, Christiane; Radszuweit, MarkusWe present a continuum model that incorporates rate-dependent damage and fracture, a material order parameter field and temperature. Different material characteristics throughout the medium yield a strong inhomogeneity and affect the way fracture propagates. The phasefield approach is employed to describe degradation. For the material order parameter we assume a Cahn Larché-type dynamics, which makes the model in particular applicable to binary alloys. We give thermodynamically consistent evolution equations resulting from a unified variational approach. Diverse coupling mechanisms can be covered within the model, such as heat dissipation during fracture, thermal-expansion-induced failure and elastic-inhomogeneity effects. We furthermore present an adaptive Finite Element code in two space dimensions that is capable of solving such a highly nonlinear and non-convex system of partial differential equations. With the help of this tool we conduct numerical experiments of different complexity in order to investigate the possibilities and limitations of the presented model. A main feature of our model is that we can describe the process of micro-crack nucleation in regions of partial damage to form macro-cracks in a unifying approach.
- ItemModelling compressible electrolytes with phase transition(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2014) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Giesselmann, Jan; Kraus, ChristianeA novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist. In addition, all constituents may consist of polarizable and magnetizable matter. Our introduced thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model may be regarded as a generalized model of Allen-Cahn/Navier-Stokes/Poisson type for multi-component flows with phase transitions and electrochemical reactions. For the introduced diffuse interface model, we investigate physically admissible sharp interface limits by matched asymptotic techniques. We consider two scaling regimes, i.e. a non-coupled and a coupled regime, where the coupling takes place between the smallness parameter in the Poisson equation and the width of the interface. We recover in the sharp interface limit a generalized Allen-Cahn/Euler/Poisson system for mixtures with electrochemical reactions in the bulk phases equipped with admissible interfacial conditions. The interfacial conditions satisfy, for instance, a generalized Gibbs-Thomson law and a dynamic Young-Laplace law.
- ItemPressure reconstruction for weak solutions of the two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes equations with surface tension(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Abels, Helmut; Daube, Johannes; Kraus, ChristianeFor the two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes equations with surface tension, we derive an appropriate weak formulation incorporating a variational formulation using divergence-free test functions. We prove a consistency result to justify our definition and, under reasonable regularity assumptions, we reconstruct the pressure function from the weak formulation.