A Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to an Allen-Cahn model of viscoelasticity at large strains

Agosti, A. and Colli, P. and Garcke, H. and Rocca, E. (2023) A Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to an Allen-Cahn model of viscoelasticity at large strains. NONLINEARITY, 36 (12). pp. 6589-6638. ISSN 0951-7715, 1361-6544

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Abstract

We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive regularization, of Allen-Cahn type, is introduced in the transport equation for the deformation gradient, together with a regularizing interface term depending on the gradient of the deformation gradient in the free energy density of the system. The designed regularization preserves the dissipative structure of the equations. We obtain the global existence of a weak solution in three space dimensions and for generic nonlinear elastic energy densities with polynomial growth, comprising the relevant cases of polyconvex Mooney-Rivlin and Ogden elastic energies. Also, our analysis considers elastic free energy densities which depend on the phase field variable and which can possibly degenerate for some values of the phase field variable. We also propose two kinds of unconditionally energy stable finite element approximations of the model, based on convex splitting ideas and on the use of a scalar auxiliary variable respectively, proving the existence and stability of discrete solutions. We finally report numerical results for different test cases with shape memory alloy type free energy, showing the interplay between phase separation and finite elasticity in determining the topology of stationary states with pure phases characterized by different elastic properties.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: WEAK SOLUTIONS; EXISTENCE; Cahn-Hilliard; Allen-Cahn; viscoelasticity; large deformations; existence of weak solutions; gradient-stable finite element approximations
Subjects: 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
Divisions: Mathematics > Prof. Dr. Harald Garcke
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 13 Mar 2024 14:33
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2024 14:33
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/59984

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