A diffuse interface model for two-phase incompressible flows with nonlocal interactions and nonconstant mobility
Authors
- Frigeri, Sergio Pietro
- Grasselli, Maurizio
- Rocca, Elisabetta
ORCID: 0000-0002-9930-907X
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 35Q30 37L30 45K05 76D03 76T99
Keywords
- Navier-Stokes equations, nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, degenerate mobility, incompressible, binary fluids, weak solutions, global attractors
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Abstract
We consider a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids with matched constant densities. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with non-constant mobility. We first prove the existence of a global weak solution in the case of non-degenerate mobilities and regular potentials of polynomial growth. Then we extend the result to degenerate mobilities and singular (e.g. logarithmic) potentials. In the latter case we also establish the existence of the global attractor in dimension two. Using a similar technique, we show that there is a global attractor for the convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and singular potential in dimension three.
Appeared in
- Nonlinearity, 28 (2015) pp. 1257--1293.
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