Global existence of weak solutions to incompressible anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system
Analysis of PDEs
2026-03-30 v4
Abstract
We study the anisotropic, incompressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system with variable density in a bounded smooth domain . This work extends previous results on the isotropic case by incorporating anisotropic surface energy, represented by . The thermodynamic consistency of this system, as well as its modeling background and physical motivation, has been established in \cite{anderson2000phase,taylor-cahn98, zaidni2024}. Using a Galerkin approximation scheme, we prove the existence of global weak solutions in both two- and three-dimensions . A key ingredient in extending the local existence of approximate solutions to a global one is the application of Bihari's inequality combined with a fixed-point argument.
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@article{arxiv.2412.05757,
title = {Global existence of weak solutions to incompressible anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system},
author = {Azeddine Zaidni and Saad Benjelloun and Radouan Boukharfane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05757},
year = {2026}
}