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Global existence for a strongly coupled Cahn-Hilliard system with viscosity : in memory of Enrico Magenes
2012, Colli, Pierluigi, Gilardi, Gianni, Podio-Guidugli, Paolo, Sprekels, Jürgen, Magenes, Enrico
An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions. This system is meant to model two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of diffusion. A similar system has been recently introduced and analyzed in [CGPS11]. Both systems conform to the general theory developed in [Pod06]: two parabolic PDEs, interpreted as balances of microforces and microenergy, are to be solved for the order parameter $rho$ and the chemical potential $mu$. In the system studied in this note, a phase-field equation in $rho$ fairly more general than in [CGPS11] is coupled with a highly nonlinear diffusion equation for $mu$, in which the conductivity coefficient is allowed to depend nonlinearly on both variables.
Well-posedness and long-time behavior for a nonstandard viscous Cahn-Hilliard system
2011, Colli, Pierluigi, Gilardi, Geanni, Podio-Guidugli, Paolo, Sprekels, Jürgen
We study a diffusion model of phase field type, consisting of a system of two partial differential equations encoding the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two unknowns are the order parameter and the chemical potential. By a careful development of uniform estimates and the deduction of certain useful boundedness properties, we prove existence and uniqueness of a global-in-time smooth solution to the associated initial/boundary-value problem; moreover, we give a description of the relative $omega$-limit set.