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Convergence to equilibrium of global weak solutions for a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes vesicle model

Analysis of PDEs 2017-10-10 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a model describing the dynamic of vesicle membranes within an incompressible viscous fluid in 3D3D domains. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, with an extra stress tensor depending on the membrane, coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation associated to a bending energy plus a penalization term related to the area conservation. This problem has a dissipative in time free-energy which leads, in particular, to prove the existence of global in time weak solutions. We analyze the large-time behavior of the weak solutions. By using a modified Lojasiewicz-Simon's result, we prove the convergence as time goes to infinity of each (whole) trajectory to a single equilibrium. Finally, the convergence of the trajectory of the phase is improved by imposing more regularity on the domain and initial phase.

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@article{arxiv.1505.04127,
  title  = {Convergence to equilibrium of global weak solutions for a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes vesicle model},
  author = {Blanca Climent-Ezquerra and Francisco Guillén-González},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04127},
  year   = {2017}
}