Global existence of strong solutions to the one-dimensional full model for phase transitions in thermoviscoelastic materials

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a one-dimensional model for phase transition phenomena in thermoviscoelastic materials. The corresponding parabolic-hyperbolic PDE system features a strongly nonlinear internal energy balance equation, governing the evolution of the absolute temperature ϑ, an evolution equation for the phase change parameter χ, including constraints on the phase variable, and a hyperbolic stress-strain relation for the displacement variable u. The main novelty of the model is that the equations for χ and u are coupled in such a way as to take into account the fact that the properties of the viscous and of the elastic parts influence the phase transition phenomenon in different ways. However, this brings about an elliptic degeneracy in the equation for u which needs to be carefully handled. First, we prove a global well-posedness result for the related initial-boundary value problem. Secondly, we address the long-time behavior of the solutions in a simplified situation. We prove that the ω-limit set of the solution trajectories is nonempty, connected and compact in a suitable topology, and that its elements solve the steady state system associated with the evolution problem. Dedicated to Jürgen Sprekels on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

On a Penrose-Fife model with zero interfacial energy leading to a phase-field system of relaxed Stefan type

In this paper we study an initial-boundary value Stefan-type problem with phase relaxation where the heat flux is proportional to the gradient of the inverse absolute temperature. This problem arise naturally as limiting case of the Penrose-Fife model for diffusive phase transitions with nonconserved order parameter if the coefficient of the interfacial energy is taken as zero. It is shown that the relaxed Stefan problem admits a weak solution which is obtained as limit of solutions to the Penrose-Fife phase-field equations. For a special boundary condition involving the heat exchange with the surrounding medium, also uniqueness of the solution is proved.     

An extension of Ezeilo's result

Summary In a recent paper[1] Ezeilo considered the nonlinear third order differential equation x‴ + ω(x′)x″ + ω(x)x′ + ϑ(x, x′, x″)=p(t). He proved the ultimate boundedness of the solutions on rather general conditions for the nonlinear terms ϕ, ϕ, ϑ. These conditions (in a little weaker form) are also sufficient in order to prove the existence of forced oscillations in the case when the excitation is ω-periodic. For this purpose the Lerag-Schauder principle in a form suggested by G. Güssefeldt[2] is applicable. Dedicated to ProfessorKarl Klotter on his 70th birthday Entrata in Redazione il 21 ottobre 1971.     

On a Conserved Penrose-Fife Type System

We deal with a class of Penrose-Fife type phase field models for phase transitions, where the phase dynamics is ruled by a Cahn-Hilliard type equation. Suitable assumptions on the behaviour of the heat flux as the absolute temperature tends to zero and to +∞ are considered. An existence result is obtained by a double approximation procedure and compactness methods. Moreover, uniqueness and regularity results are proved as well. The authors would like to acknowledge financial support from MIUR through COFIN grants and from the IMATI of the CNR, Pavia, Italy.     

Chirality-violating condensates in QCD and their connection with zero-mode solutions of quark dirac equations

We demonstrate that chirality-violating condensates in massless QCD arise entirely from zero-mode solutions of the Dirac equation in arbitrary gluon fields. We propose a model in which the zero-mode solutions are the ones for quarks moving in the instanton field and calculate the quark condensate magnetic susceptibilities χ of dimension three and κ and ξ of dimension five based on this model. The good correspondence of the values of χ, κ, and ξ obtained using this approach with the values found from the hadronic spectrum is a serious argument that instantons are the only source of chirality-violating condensates in QCD. We discuss the temperature dependence of the quark condensate and show that the phase transition corresponding to the temperature dependence α(T) of the quark condensate as an order parameter is a crossover-type transition.     

Tricomi problem for strongly degenerate equations of parabolic-hyperbolic type

A new integral representation of solutions of a Tricomi problem for a strongly degenerate system of equations of parabolic-hyperbolic type is constructed. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp.385–392, September, 1999.     

Asymptotic behavior and symmetry of condensate solutions in electroweak theory

We study condensate solutions of a nonlinear elliptic equation in ℝ², which models a W-boson with a cosmic string background. The existence of condensate solutions and an energy identity are discussed, based on which the refined asymptotic behavior of condensate solutions is established by studying the corresponding evolution dynamical system. Applying the “shrinking-sphere” method, we also prove the symmetry under inversions of condensate solutions for some special cases.     

Existence of a universal attractor for a fully hyperbolic phase-field system

Here we study a nonlinear hyperbolic integrodifferential system which was proposed by H.G. Rotstein et al. to describe certain peculiar phase transition phenomena. This system governs the evolution of the (relative) temperature and the order parameter (or phase-field) . We first consider an initial and boundary value problem associated with the system and we frame it in a history space setting. This is done by introducing two additional variables accounting for the histories of and . Then we show that the reformulated problem generates a dissipative dynamical system in a suitable infinite-dimensional phase space. Finally, we prove the existence of a universal attractor.     

Existence and Exponential Decay of Solutions to a Quasilinear Thermoelastic Plate System

We consider a quasilinear PDE system which models nonlinear vibrations of a thermoelastic plate defined on a bounded domain in , n ≤ 3. Existence of finite energy solutions describing the dynamics of a nonlinear thermoelastic plate is established. In addition asymptotic long time behavior of weak solutions is discussed. It is shown that finite energy solutions decay exponentially to zero with the rate depending only on the (finite energy) size of initial conditions. The proofs are based on methods of weak compactness along with nonlocal partial differential operator multipliers which supply the sought after “recovery” inequalities. Regularity of solutions is also discussed by exploiting the underlying analyticity of the linearized semigroup along with a related maximal parabolic regularity [1, 16, 44]. The research of I. Lasiecka has been partially supported by DMS-NSF Grant Nr 0606882. S. Maad was supported by the Swedish Research Council and by the European Union under the Marie Curie Fellowship MEIF-CT-2005-024191.     

The large time behavior of strong solutions to a P1-approximation arising in radiating hydrodynamics

This paper is concerned with the study of the Cauchy problem to a multi-dimensional P1-approximation model. Based on a known global well-posedness (Danchin and Ducomet in J Evol Equ 14:155–195, 2014), in $$L^{2}$$-critical regularity framework the time decay rates of the constructed global strong solutions are obtained if the low frequencies of the data under a suitable additional condition. The proof mainly relies on an application of Fourier analysis to a mixed parabolic-hyperbolic system, and on a refined time-weighted energy functional. As a by-product, those time-decay rates of $$L^{q}$$–$$L^{r}$$ type are also captured in the critical framework.     

Existence of Periodic Solutions for the Quasi-Static Thermoelastic Thermistor Problem

We deal with a new model for the thermistor problem formulated as a coupled system of PDE’s involving nonlinear energy heat equation, stationary charge conservation equation of electrical current and thermoelastic equations of displacement. We establish the existence of weak periodic solutions rewriting our system as an abstract problem in order to utilize the maximal monotone mappings theory and a fixed point argument for a suitable operator equation.      

Analysis of a system related to a model for phase transitions in dissipative isochoric thermoviscoelastic materials

We analyze a highly nonlinear system of partial differential equations related to a model solidification and/or melting of thermoviscoelastic isochoric materials with the possibility of motion of the material during the process. This system consists of an internal energy balance equation governing the evolution of temperature, coupled with an evolution equation for a phase field whose values describe the state of material and a balance equation for the linear moments governing the material displacements. For this system, under suitable dissipation conditions, we prove global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the cohomological characterization of real free pro-2-groups

The aim of this note is to give a cohomological characterization of the real free pro-2-groups. Thereal free pro-2-groups are the free pro-2-product of copies of ℤ/2ℤ with a free pro-2-group. They are characterized as the pro-2-groupsG for which there exists a character χ₀, whose kernel is a free pro-2-group, such that χ₀∪χ=χ∪χ, for every χ∈H ¹(G). We discuss the naturalness of these conditions and we state some relations between them and field arithmetic properties. Supported by a grant from CNPq-Brasil. This article was processed by the author using the LATEX style filecljour1 from Springer-Verlag.     

On the best mean-square approximation of a real nonnegative finite continuous function of two variables by the modulus of a double Fourier integral. II

We continue the investigation of the nonlinear problem of mean-square approximation of a real finite nonnegative continuous function of two variables by the modulus of a double Fourier integral depending on two parameters begun in the first part of this work [J. Math. Sci., 160, No. 3, 343–356 (2009)]. Finding the solutions of this problem is reduced to the solution of a nonlinear two-dimensional integral equation of the Hammerstein type. We construct and justify numerical algorithms for determination of branching lines and branched solutions of this equation. Numerical examples are presented.     

Maximum and minimum solutions for nonlinear parabolic problems with discontinuities

In this paper we examine nonlinear parabolic problems with a discontinuous right hand side. Assuming the existence of an upper solution φ and a lower solution ψ such that ψ ≤ φ, we establish the existence of a maximum and a minimum solution in the order interval [ψ, φ]. Our approach does not consider the multivalued interpretation of the problem, but a weak one side “Lipschitz” condition on the discontinuous term. By employing a fixed point theorem for nondecreasing maps, we prove the existence of extremal solutions in [ψ, φ for the original single valued version of the problem.     

Asymptotic uniform boundedness of energy solutions to the Penrose-Fife model

We study a Penrose-Fife phase transition model coupled with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. Improving previous results, we show that the initial value problem for this model admits a unique solution under weak conditions on the initial data. Moreover, we prove asymptotic regularization properties of weak solutions.     

Generalized motion by mean curvature with Neumann conditions and the Allen-Cahn model for phase transitions

We study asharpinterface model for phase transitions which incorporates the interaction of the phase boundaries with the walls of a container Ω. In this model, the interfaces move by their mean curvature and are normal to δΩ. We first establish local-in-time existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions for the mean curvature equation with a normal contact angle condition. We then discuss global solutions by interpreting the equation and the boundary condition in a weak (viscosity) sense. Finally, we investigate the relation of the aforementioned model with atransitionlayer model. We prove that if Ω isconvex, the transition-layer solutions converge to the sharp-interface solutions as the thickness of the layer tends to zero. We conclude with a discussion of the difficulties that arise in establishing this result in nonconvex domains. Communicated by David Kinderlehrer     

Asymptotics and analytic modes for the wave equation in similarity coordinates

We consider the radial wave equation in similarity coordinates within the semigroup formalism. It is known that the generator of the semigroup exhibits a continuum of eigenvalues and embedded in this continuum there exists a discrete set of eigenvalues with analytic eigenfunctions. Our results show that, for sufficiently regular data, the long-time behaviour of the solution is governed by the analytic eigenfunctions. The same techniques are applied to the linear stability problem for the fundamental self-similar solution χ _T of the wave equation with a focusing power nonlinearity. Analogous to the free wave equation, we show that the long-time behaviour (in similarity coordinates) of linear perturbations around χ _T is governed by analytic mode solutions. In particular, this yields a rigorous proof for the linear stability of χ _T with the sharp decay rate for the perturbations.      

Weak solutions for steady compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in two space dimensions

We consider steady compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in a bounded two-dimensional domain. We show the existence of a weak solution for arbitrarily large data for the pressure law p(ϱ, ϑ) ∼ ϱ ^γ + ϱϑ if γ > 1 and p(ϱ, ϑ) ∼ ϱ ln ^α (1 + ϱ) + ϱϑ if γ = 1, α > 0, depending on the model for the heat flux.     

A Hamiltonian Regularization of the Burgers Equation

We consider a quasilinear equation that consists of the inviscid Burgers equation plus O(α²) nonlinear terms. As we show, these extra terms regularize the Burgers equation in the following sense: for smooth initial data, the α > 0 equation has classical solutions globally in time. Furthermore, in the zero-α limit, solutions of the regularized equation converge strongly to weak solutions of the Burgers equation. We present numerical evidence that the zero-α limit satisfies the Oleinik entropy inequality. For all α ≥ 0, the regularized equation possesses a nonlocal Poisson structure. We prove the Jacobi identity for this generalized Hamiltonian structure.