Further regularity and uniqueness results for a non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equation

Erica Ipocoana; Andrea Zafferi

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2020289

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2021, Volume 20, Issue 2: 763-782. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020289

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Further regularity and uniqueness results for a non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equation

Erica Ipocoana^1, , and
Andrea Zafferi^2,

1.
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, via Campi 213/b, 41125 Modena, Italy
2.
Weierstrass Institute, Mohrenstr. 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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Received: March 31, 2020

Revised: September 30, 2020

Early access: December 2020

Published: February 2021

The work of E. Ipocoana is supported by GNAMPA (Gruppo Nazionale per l'Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni) of INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica), by MIUR through the project FFABR (M. Eleuteri) and by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia through the project FAR2017 "Equazioni differenziali: problemi evolutivi, variazionali ed applicazioni" (S. Gatti). A. Zafferi acknowledges the funding by the DFG through grant CRC1114 "Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems", Project Number 235221301, Project (C09) "Dynamics of rock dehydration on multiple scales"

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The aim of this paper is to establish new regularity results for a non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard system in the two dimensional setting. The main achievement is a crucial $ L^{\infty} $ estimate for the temperature, obtained by a suitable Moser iteration scheme. Our results in particular allow us to get a new simplified version of the uniqueness proof for the considered model.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:35Q35;Secondary:35D35, 80A22, 35A02, 35B65.

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