TY - JOUR
T1 - Generation of interface for solutions of the mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation
AU - Hilhorst, Danielle
AU - Matano, Hiroshi
AU - Nguyen, Thanh Nam
AU - Weber, Hendrik
N1 - Funding Information:
The research of the second author was partially supported by KAKENHI (16H02151). The research of the first, second, and third authors was supported by the GDRI ReaDiNet. The research of the third author was supported by ERC Adora and by Plan Cancer HTE program EcoAML. The research of the fourth author was supported by EPSRC First Grant EP/L018969/1 and by the Royal Society through the University Research Fellowship UF140187.
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PY - 2020/12/31
Y1 - 2020/12/31
N2 - In this paper, we study the generation of interface for the solution of the mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation involving a nonlocal integral term. We show that, for a rather general class of initial functions that are independent of ϵ, the solution generally develops a steep transition layer of thickness O(ϵγ) (0 < γ ≤ 1) at a certain time of order ϵ2 |ln ϵ|. In some cases, we prove that the thickness of the interface is exactly of order ϵ, which is the optimal thickness estimate. We note that the comparison principle does not hold for our equation because of the nonlocal term so that the methods that were employed in the earlier studies of the standard Allen-Cahn equation do not work. We will therefore take a different approach, which is based on the fine analysis of the long-time behavior of the corresponding nonlocal ODEs and some energy estimates.
AB - In this paper, we study the generation of interface for the solution of the mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation involving a nonlocal integral term. We show that, for a rather general class of initial functions that are independent of ϵ, the solution generally develops a steep transition layer of thickness O(ϵγ) (0 < γ ≤ 1) at a certain time of order ϵ2 |ln ϵ|. In some cases, we prove that the thickness of the interface is exactly of order ϵ, which is the optimal thickness estimate. We note that the comparison principle does not hold for our equation because of the nonlocal term so that the methods that were employed in the earlier studies of the standard Allen-Cahn equation do not work. We will therefore take a different approach, which is based on the fine analysis of the long-time behavior of the corresponding nonlocal ODEs and some energy estimates.
KW - Absence of interface
KW - Allen-Cahn
KW - Generation of interface
KW - Nonlinear PDE
KW - Reaction-diffusion equation
KW - Singular perturbation
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U2 - 10.1137/18M1204747
DO - 10.1137/18M1204747
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091331645
SN - 0036-1410
VL - 52
SP - 2624
EP - 2654
JO - Siam Journal on Mathematical Analysis
JF - Siam Journal on Mathematical Analysis
IS - 3
ER -