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    A 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, Christiane
    In 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.
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    Existence 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, Christiane
    The 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.
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    Asymptotic analysis for Korteweg models
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Giesselmann, Jan; Kraus, Christiane; Rohde, Christiane
    This 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.
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    Existence of weak solutions for Cahn-Hilliard systems coupled with elasticity and damage
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, Christiane
    The 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
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    A degenerating Cahn-Hilliard system coupled with complete damage processes
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, Christiane
    Complete 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....
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    Existence 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, Arne
    In 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.
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    Existence 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, Christiane
    In 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.
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    Complete damage in linear elastic materials : modeling, weak formulation and existence results
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, Christiane
    We 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.
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    Modeling 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, Antonio
    In 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.
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    Existence results for diffuse interface models describing phase separation and damage
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Heinemann, Christian; Kraus, Christiane
    In 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.