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Well-posedness of the Hele-Shaw-Cahn-Hilliard system

Analysis of PDEs 2010-12-15 v1

Abstract

We study the well-posedness of the Hele-Shaw-Cahn-Hilliard system modeling binary fluid flow in porous media with arbitrary viscosity contrast but matched density between the components. For initial data in Hs,s>d2+1H^s, s>\frac{d}{2}+1, the existence and uniqueness of solution in C([0,T];Hs)L2(0,T;Hs+2)C([0, T]; H^s)\cap L^2(0, T; H^{s+2}) that is global in time in the two dimensional case (d=2d=2) and local in time in the three dimensional case (d=3d=3) are established. Several blow-up criterions in the three dimensional case are provided as well. One of the tools that we utilized is the Littlewood-Paley theory in order to establish certain key commutator estimates.

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@article{arxiv.1012.2944,
  title  = {Well-posedness of the Hele-Shaw-Cahn-Hilliard system},
  author = {Xiaoming Wang and Zhifei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2944},
  year   = {2010}
}