Mathematical analyses of some phase field type models with convection

Author(s)

Fernando Pereira de Souza

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica
• Defense date: 2010-08-06

Examining board members

José Luiz Boldrini; Gabriela Del Valle Planas; Luiz Adauto da Justa Medeiros; Marcelo Moreira Cavalcanti; Ma To Fu

• Advisor: José Luiz Boldrini

Abstract

In this work we study four phase field models for the evolution of a solidification/liquefaction process of certain pure material or certain binary alloys, with the possibility of motion of the melt phase. The governing equations for pure materials include a phase-field equation, a heat equation and a singular Navier-Stokes system with a term of Carman-Kozeni type and a Boussines type term. For binary alloys, an extra equation for solute concentration is included. For pure materials, both in the two and three-dimensional cases we prove the existence of global in time solutions; in the three-dimensional, we consider a model with stronger (nonlinear) dissipation than in the two-dimensional case. For alloys, both in the two-dimensional and three-dimensional case, we obtain just local in time solutions. These solutions are obtained as follows: firstly the problem is penalized and a sequence of approximate solutions is obtained by using the Leray-Schauder's fixed point theorem; then, by using compactness arguments, we prove that this sequence has a limit point which is a solution of the original problem in a generalized sense. (AU)