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Analysis of a thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard model

Analysis of PDEs 2023-12-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper, existence of generalized solutions to a thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard model introduced in [18] is proven in any space dimension. The generalized solvability concepts are measure-valued and dissipative solutions. The measure-valued formulation incorporates an entropy inequality and an energy inequality instead of an energy balance in a nowadays standard way, the Gradient flow of the internal variable is fulfilled in a weak and the momentum balance in a measure-valued sense. In the dissipative formulation, the distributional relations of the momentum balance and the energy as well as entropy inequality are replaced by a relative energy inequality. Additionally, we prove the weak-strong uniqueness of the proposed solution concepts and that all generalized solutions with additional regularity are indeed strong solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2007.06607,
  title  = {Analysis of a thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard model},
  author = {Robert Lasarzik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.06607},
  year   = {2023}
}
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