Phase separation in multiply periodic materials with fine microstructures

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Main Authors: Cristoferi, Riccardo, Pignatelli, Luca
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author Cristoferi, Riccardo
Pignatelli, Luca
author_facet Cristoferi, Riccardo
Pignatelli, Luca
contents We study a Cahn-Hilliard model for phase separation in composite materials with multiple periodic microstructures. These are modeled by considering a highly oscillating potential. The focus of this paper is in the case where the scales of the microstructures are smaller than that of phase separation. We provide a compactness result and prove that the Γ-limit of the energy is a multiple of the perimeter. In particular, using the recently introduced unfolding operator for multiple scales, we show that the taking the limit of all of the scales together is equivalent to taking one limit at the time, starting from the smaller scale and keeping the larger fixed.
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spellingShingle Phase separation in multiply periodic materials with fine microstructures
Cristoferi, Riccardo
Pignatelli, Luca
Analysis of PDEs
We study a Cahn-Hilliard model for phase separation in composite materials with multiple periodic microstructures. These are modeled by considering a highly oscillating potential. The focus of this paper is in the case where the scales of the microstructures are smaller than that of phase separation. We provide a compactness result and prove that the Γ-limit of the energy is a multiple of the perimeter. In particular, using the recently introduced unfolding operator for multiple scales, we show that the taking the limit of all of the scales together is equivalent to taking one limit at the time, starting from the smaller scale and keeping the larger fixed.
title Phase separation in multiply periodic materials with fine microstructures
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14462