# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2013, 33(11&12): 5089-5106. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.5089

## Nonlocal phase-field systems with general potentials

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Via E. Bonardi, 9, I-20133 Milano 2 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, I-27100 Pavia

Received  October 2011 Revised  July 2012 Published  May 2013

We consider a phase-field model of Caginalp type where the free energy depends on the order parameter $\chi$ in a nonlocal way. Therefore, the resulting system consists of the energy balance equation coupled with a nonlinear and nonlocal ODE for $\chi$. Such system has been analyzed by several authors, in particular when the configuration potential is a smooth double-well function. More recently, the first author has established the existence of a finite-dimensional global attractor in the case of a potential defined on $(-1,1)$ and singular at the endpoints. Here we examine both the case of regular potentials as well as the case of physically more relevant singular potentials (e.g., logarithmic). We prove well-posedness results and the eventual global boundedness of solutions uniformly with respect to the initial data. In addition, we show that the separation property holds in the case of singular potentials. Thanks to these results, we are able to demonstrate the existence of a finite-dimensional global attractor in the present cases as well.
Citation: Maurizio Grasselli, Giulio Schimperna. Nonlocal phase-field systems with general potentials. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2013, 33 (11&12) : 5089-5106. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.5089
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##### References:
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Phys., 172 (1986), 136-155. doi: 10.1016/0003-4916(86)90022-9.  Google Scholar [12] G. Caginalp and E. Esenturk, A phase field model with non-local and anisotropic potential, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S, 4 (2011), 311-350. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.311.  Google Scholar [13] X. Chen, G. Caginalp and E. Esenturk, A phase field model with non-local and anisotropic potential, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 19 (2011), 8, 045006. doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/19/4/045006.  Google Scholar [14] X. Chen, G. Caginalp and E. Esenturk, Interface conditions for a phase field model with anisotropic and non-local interactions, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 202 (2011), 349-372. doi: 10.1007/s00205-011-0429-8.  Google Scholar [15] C. M. Elliott and S. Zheng, Global existence and stability of solutions to the phase-field equations, in "Free boundary problems," Internat. Ser. Numer. Math., 95 46-58, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, (1990).  Google Scholar [16] E. Feireisl, F. Issard-Roch and H. Petzeltová, A non-smooth version of the Łojasiewicz-Simon theorem with applications to non-local phase-field systems, J. Differential Equations, 199 (2004), 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2003.10.026.  Google Scholar [17] M. Grasselli, Finite-dimensional global attractor for a nonlocal phase-field system,, preprint, ().   Google Scholar [18] M. Grasselli, A. Miranville and G. Schimperna, The Caginalp phase-field system with coupled dynamic boundary conditions and singular potentials, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 28 (2010), 67-98. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2010.28.67.  Google Scholar [19] M. Grasselli, H. Petzeltová and G. Schimperna, Long time behavior of solutions to the Caginalp system with singular potential, Z. Anal. Anwend., 25 (2006), 51-72. doi: 10.4171/ZAA/1277.  Google Scholar [20] M. Grasselli, H. Petzeltová and G. Schimperna, A nonlocal phase-field system with inertial term, Quart. Appl. Math., 65 (2007), 451-469.  Google Scholar [21] J. K. 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Equ., 12 (2012), 863-890. doi: 10.1007/s00028-012-0159-x.  Google Scholar [31] J. Sprekels and S. Zheng, Global existence and asymptotic behaviour for a nonlocal phase-field model for non-isothermal phase transitions, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 279 (2003), 97-110. doi: 10.1016/S0022-247X(02)00559-0.  Google Scholar
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