Weak solutions for a degenerate phase‐field model via Galerkin approximation

Abstract

This paper is concerned with a phase‐field model driven by interface diffusion, which is an elliptic and nonlinear degenerate parabolic coupled system arising in a theory of interface motion in the elastically deformable materials. Spinodal decomposition is a typical example for this motion. We shall study the global existence of weak solutions to this model with a general polynomial potential function via the Galerkin method. Moreover, we perform the numerical simulations to investigate the spinodal decomposition process of binary alloy by applying this model.