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Mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation and volume preserving mean curvature flow

Analysis of PDEs 2017-03-29 v1

Abstract

We consider a mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation ut=Δu+\e2(f(u)\eλ(t))u_t=\Delta u+ \e^{-2} (f(u)-\e\lambda(t)) in a bounded domain with no flux boundary condition, where \eλ(t)\e\lambda(t) is the average of f(u(,t))f(u(\cdot,t)) and f-f is the derivative of a double equal well potential. Given a smooth hypersurface γ0\gamma_0 contained in the domain, we show that the solution u\eu^\e with appropriate initial data approaches, as \e0\e\searrow0, to a limit which takes only two values, with the jump occurring at the hypersurface obtained from the volume preserving mean curvature flow starting from γ0\gamma_0.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3625,
  title  = {Mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation and volume preserving mean curvature flow},
  author = {Xinfu Chen and Danielle Hilhorst and Elisabeth Logak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3625},
  year   = {2017}
}