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Well-Posedness of a Navier-Stokes/Mean Curvature Flow system

Analysis of PDEs 2017-06-01 v1

Abstract

We consider a two-phase flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids which are separated by a sharp interface in the case of a simple phase transition. In this model the interface is no longer material and its evolution is governed by a convective mean curvature flow equation, which is coupled to a two-phase Navier-Stokes equation with Young-Laplace law. The problem arises as a sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model, which consists of a Navier-Stokes system coupled with an Allen-Cahn equation. We prove existence of strong solutions for sufficiently small times and regular initial data.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10832,
  title  = {Well-Posedness of a Navier-Stokes/Mean Curvature Flow system},
  author = {Helmut Abels and Maximilian Moser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10832},
  year   = {2017}
}

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32 pages