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The stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and logarithmic potential

Analysis of PDEs 2021-09-17 v3

Abstract

We prove existence of martingale solutions for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and multiplicative Wiener noise. The potential is allowed to be of logarithmic or double-obstacle type. By extending to the stochastic framework a regularization procedure introduced by C. M. Elliott and H. Garcke in the deterministic setting, we show that a compatibility condition between the degeneracy of the mobility and the blow-up of the potential allows to confine some approximate solutions in the physically relevant domain. By using a suitable Lipschitz-continuity property of the noise, uniform energy and magnitude estimates are proved. The passage to the limit is then carried out by stochastic compactness arguments in a variational framework. Applications to stochastic phase-field modelling are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1909.12106,
  title  = {The stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and logarithmic potential},
  author = {Luca Scarpa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12106},
  year   = {2021}
}

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37 pages