scholarly journals Sharp interface limit for stochastically perturbed mass conserving Allen–Cahn equation

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 560-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadahisa Funaki ◽  
Satoshi Yokoyama
Author(s):  
Helmut Abels

AbstractWe consider the sharp interface limit of a convective Allen–Cahn equation, which can be part of a Navier–Stokes/Allen–Cahn system, for different scalings of the mobility $$m_\varepsilon =m_0\varepsilon ^\theta $$ m ε = m 0 ε θ as $$\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$$ ε → 0 . In the case $$\theta >2$$ θ > 2 we show a (non-)convergence result in the sense that the concentrations converge to the solution of a transport equation, but they do not behave like a rescaled optimal profile in normal direction to the interface as in the case $$\theta =0$$ θ = 0 . Moreover, we show that an associated mean curvature functional does not converge to the corresponding functional for the sharp interface. Finally, we discuss the convergence in the case $$\theta =0,1$$ θ = 0 , 1 by the method of formally matched asymptotics.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 5072-5095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Nien Chen ◽  
Yung-Sze Choi ◽  
Yeyao Hu ◽  
Xiaofeng Ren

2010 ◽  
Vol 140 (6) ◽  
pp. 1161-1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Dreyer ◽  
Christiane Kraus

We study the thermodynamic consistency of phase-field models, which include gradient terms of the density ρ in the free-energy functional such as the van der Waals–Cahn–Hilliard model. It is well known that the entropy inequality admits gradient and higher-order gradient terms of ρ in the free energy only if either the energy flux or the entropy flux is represented by a non-classical form. We identify a non-classical entropy flux, which is not restricted to isothermal processes, so that gradient contributions are possible.We then investigate equilibrium conditions for the van der Waals–Cahn–Hilliard phase-field model in the sharp interface limit. For a single substance thermodynamics provides two jump conditions at the sharp interface, namely the continuity of the Gibbs free energies of the adjacent phases and the discontinuity of the corresponding pressures, which is balanced by the mean curvature. We show that these conditions can be also extracted from the van der Waals–Cahn–Hilliard phase-field model in the sharp interface limit. To this end we prove an asymptotic expansion of the density up to the first order. The results are based on local energy estimates and uniform convergence results for the density.


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