WIAS Preprint No. 91, (1994)

Global solutions to a Penrose-Fife phase-field model under flux boundary conditions for the inverse temperature


Authors

  • Horn, Werner
  • Laurençot, Philippe
  • Sprekels, Jürgen
    ORCID: 0009-0000-0618-8604

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35K50

Keywords

  • Phase transitions, phase-field models, nonlinear parabolic systems

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.91

Abstract

In this paper, we study an initial-boundary value problem for a system of phase-field equations arising from the Penrose-Fife approach to model the kinetics of phase transitions. In contrast to other recent works in this field, the correct form of the boundary condition for the temperature field is assumed which leads to additional difficulties in the mathematical treatment. It is demonstrated that global existence and, in the case of only one or two space dimensions, also uniqueness of strong solutions can be shown under essentially the same assumptions on the data as in the previous papers where a simplified boundary condition for the heat exchange with the surrounding medium has been used.

Appeared in

  • Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 19 (1996) pp. 1053-1072

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