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# Global solvability of a model for grain boundary motion with constraint

• We consider a model for grain boundary motion with constraint. In composite material science it is very important to investigate the grain boundary formation and its dynamics. In this paper we study a phase-filed model of grain boundaries, which is a modified version of the one proposed by R. Kobayashi, J.A. Warren and W.C. Carter [18]. The model is described as a system of a nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation and a nonlinear parabolic variational inequality. The main objective of this paper is to show the global existence of a solution for our model, employing some subdifferential techniques in the convex analysis.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K45, 35K55; Secondary: 35R35.

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