Citation: | Alain Miranville, Zahraa Taha. ALLEN-CAHN EQUATION BASED ON AN UNCONSTRAINED ORDER PARAMETER WITH SOURCE TERM AND ITS CAHN-HILLIARD LIMIT[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2024, 14(3): 1330-1359. doi: 10.11948/20230128 |
Our aim in this paper is to study an Allen-Cahn equation based on a microforce balance and unconstrained order parameter, with the introduction of a source term. We first consider the source term, $ g(s)=\beta s $, and obtain the existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions. We prove that, on finite time intervals, the solutions converge to those of the Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation as a small parameter goes to zero and then to those of the original Cahn-Hilliard equation as $ \beta \rightarrow 0^+ $. Then, we consider another source term and obtain similar results. In this case, we prove that the solutions converge to those of a Cahn-Hilliard equation on finite time intervals as a small parameter goes to zero. We finally give some numerical simulations which confirm the theoretical results.
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