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Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw systems with singular potential and degenerate mobility

Analysis of PDEs 2022-01-05 v1

Abstract

We study a Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw (or Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy) system for an incompressible mixture of two fluids. The relative concentration difference φ\varphi is governed by a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and logarithmic potential. The volume averaged fluid velocity u\mathbf{u} obeys a Darcy's law depending on the so-called Korteweg force μφ\mu\nabla \varphi, where μ\mu is the nonlocal chemical potential. In addition, the kinematic viscosity η\eta may depend on φ\varphi. We establish first the existence of a global weak solution which satisfies the energy identity. Then we prove the existence of a strong solution. Further regularity results on the pressure and on u\mathbf{u} are also obtained. Weak-strong uniqueness is demonstrated in the two dimensional case. In the three-dimensional case, uniqueness of weak solutions holds if η\eta is constant. Otherwise, weak-strong uniqueness is shown by assuming that the pressure of the strong solution is α\alpha-H\"{o}lder continuous in space for α(1/5,1)\alpha\in (1/5,1).

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@article{arxiv.2107.02269,
  title  = {Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw systems with singular potential and degenerate mobility},
  author = {Cecilia Cavaterra and Sergio Frigeri and Maurizio Grasselli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02269},
  year   = {2022}
}

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70 pages