Long Time Behavior of Solutions to the Caginalp System with Singular Potential

  • Maurizio Grasselli

    Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Hana Petzeltová

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Giulio Schimperna

    Università di Pavia, Italy

Abstract

We consider a nonlinear parabolic system which governs the evolution of the (relative) temperature and of an order parameter . This system describes phase transition phenomena like, e.g., melting-solidification processes. The equation ruling is characterized by a singular potential which forces to take values in the interval . We provide reasonable conditions on which ensure that, from a certain time on, stays uniformly away from the pure phases and . Combining this separation property with the Łojasiewicz–Simon inequality, we show that any smooth and bounded trajectory uniformly converges to a stationary state and we give an estimate of the decay rate.

Cite this article

Maurizio Grasselli, Hana Petzeltová, Giulio Schimperna, Long Time Behavior of Solutions to the Caginalp System with Singular Potential. Z. Anal. Anwend. 25 (2006), no. 1, pp. 51–72

DOI 10.4171/ZAA/1277