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Global Existence of Weak Solutions to a Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes System

Pierluigi Colli·Sergio Frigeri·Maurizio Grasselli
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A well-known diffuse interface model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations nonlinearly coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation. This system describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary-fluids and it has been investigated by many authors. Here we consider a variant of this model where the standard Cahn-Hilliard equation is replaced by its nonlocal version. More precisely, the gradient term in the free energy functional is replaced by a spatial convolution operator acting on the order parameter phi, while the potential F may have any polynomial growth. Therefore the coupling with the Navier-Stokes equations is difficult to handle even in two spatial dimensions because of the lack of regularity of phi. We establish the global existence of a weak solution. In the two-dimensional case we also prove that such a solution satisfies the energy identity and a dissipative estimate, provided that F fulfills a suitable coercivity condition.

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Pierluigi Colli, Sergio Frigeri, Maurizio Grasselli. 2011-02-21. Global Existence of Weak Solutions to a Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes System. https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3906

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