On the Diffuse Interface Models for High Codimension Dispersed Inclusions

Elizaveta Zipunova and Evgeny Savenkov
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Elizaveta Zipunova: Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Miuskaya sq., 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia
Evgeny Savenkov: Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Miuskaya sq., 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 18, 1-14

Abstract: Diffuse interface models are widely used to describe the evolution of multi-phase systems of various natures. Dispersed inclusions described by these models are usually three-dimensional (3D) objects characterized by phase field distribution. When employed to describe elastic fracture evolution, the dispersed phase elements are effectively two-dimensional (2D) objects. An example of the model with effectively one-dimensional (1D) dispersed inclusions is a phase field model for electric breakdown in solids. Any diffuse interface field model is defined by an appropriate free energy functional, which depends on a phase field and its derivatives. In this work we show that codimension of the dispersed inclusions significantly restricts the functional dependency of the free energy on the derivatives of the problem state variables. It is shown that to describe codimension 2 diffuse objects, the free energy of the model necessarily depends on higher order derivatives of the phase field or needs an additional smoothness of the solution, i.e., its first derivatives should be integrable with a power greater than two. Numerical experiments are presented to support our theoretical discussion.

Keywords: diffuse interface models; phase field model; electric breakdown (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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