Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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840626 | Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications | 2012 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
We propose an abstract variational inequality formulation of the Cahn–Hilliard equation with a time-dependent constraint. We introduce notions of strong and weak solutions, and prove that a strong solution, if it exists, is a weak solution, and that the existence of a unique weak solution holds under an appropriate time-dependence condition on the constraint. We also show that the weak solution is a strong solution under appropriate assumptions on the data. Our abstract results can be applied to various concrete problems.
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Masahiro Kubo,