Abstract

The Functionalized Cahn–Hilliard equation has been proposed as a model for the interfacial energy of phase-separated mixtures of amphiphilic molecules. We study the existence of a nonnegative weak solutions of a gradient flow of the Functionalized Cahn–Hilliard equation subject to a degenerate mobility M(u) that is zero for u≤0. Assuming the initial data u0(x) is positive, we construct a weak solution as the limit of solutions corresponding to non-degenerate mobilities and verify that it satisfies an energy dissipation inequality. Our approach is a combination of Galerkin approximation, energy estimates, and weak convergence methods.

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