# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2012, 1(1): 171-194. doi: 10.3934/eect.2012.1.171

## On well-posedness of incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions: The case of equal densities

 1 Institut für Mathematik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, D-60120 Halle, Germany 2 Department of Mathematics and Research Institute of Science and Engineering, JST CREST, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan 3 Department of Mathematics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan 4 Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240

Received  September 2011 Revised  November 2011 Published  March 2012

The basic model for incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions is derived from basic principles and shown to be thermodynamically consistent in the sense that the total energy is conserved and the total entropy is nondecreasing. The local well-posedness of such problems is proved by means of the technique of maximal $L_p$-regularity in the case of equal densities. This way we obtain a local semiflow on a well-defined nonlinear state manifold. The equilibria of the system in absence of external forces are identified and it is shown that the negative total entropy is a strict Ljapunov functional for the system. If a solution does not develop singularities, it is proved that it exists globally in time, its orbit is relatively compact, and its limit set is nonempty and contained in the set of equilibria.
Citation: Jan Prüss, Yoshihiro Shibata, Senjo Shimizu, Gieri Simonett. On well-posedness of incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions: The case of equal densities. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, 2012, 1 (1) : 171-194. doi: 10.3934/eect.2012.1.171
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