WIAS Preprint No. 2164, (2015)

A temperature-dependent phase-field model for phase separation and damage



Authors

  • Heinemann, Christian
  • Kraus, Christiane
  • Rocca, Elisabetta
    ORCID: 0000-0002-9930-907X
  • Rossi, Riccarda
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7808-0261

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35D30 74G25 93C55 82B26 74A45

Keywords

  • damage, phase separation, thermoviscoelasticity, global-in-time entropic weak solutions, existence, time discretization

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2164

Abstract

In this paper we study a model for phase separation and damage in thermoviscoelastic materials. The main novelty of the paper consists in the fact that, in contrast with previous works in the literature (cf., e.g., [C. Heinemann, C. Kraus: Existence results of weak solutions for Cahn-Hilliard systems coupled with elasticity and damage. Adv. Math. Sci. Appl. 21 (2011), 321--359] and [C. Heinemann, C. Kraus: Existence results for diffuse interface models describing phase separation and damage. European J. Appl. Math. 24 (2013), 179--211]), we encompass in the model thermal processes, nonlinearly coupled with the damage, concentration and displacement evolutions. More in particular, we prove the existence of "entropic weak solutions", resorting to a solvability concept first introduced in [E. Feireisl: Mathematical theory of compressible, viscous, and heat conducting fluids. Comput. Math. Appl. 53 (2007), 461--490] in the framework of Fourier-Navier-Stokes systems and then recently employed in [E. Feireisl, H. Petzeltová, E. Rocca: Existence of solutions to a phase transition model with microscopic movements. Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 32 (2009), 1345--1369], [E. Rocca, R. Rossi: "Entropic" solutions to a thermodynamically consistent PDE system for phase transitions and damage. SIAM J. Math. Anal., 47 (2015), 2519--2586] for the study of PDE systems for phase transition and damage. Our global-in-time existence result is obtained by passing to the limit in a carefully devised time-discretization scheme.

Appeared in

  • Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 225 (2017) pp. 177--247.

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