A qualitative description of microstructure formation and coarsening phenomena for an evolution equation

We provide a qualitative description of microstructure formation and coarsening phenomena for the solutions of a singularly perturbed fourth order evolution equation arising in the study of phase transitions. In particular we study stationary and traveling wave solutions and we construct a class of...

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Autores: Caraballo Garrido, Tomás, Colucci, Renato
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/58707
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/58707
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-017-0437-y
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Forward-backward diffusion
Phase transitions
Traveling waves
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Sumario:We provide a qualitative description of microstructure formation and coarsening phenomena for the solutions of a singularly perturbed fourth order evolution equation arising in the study of phase transitions. In particular we study stationary and traveling wave solutions and we construct a class of approximate solution which mimics the principle features of the dynamics. Finally we present several simulations in order to illustrate the results.