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The Cahn-Hilliard equation as degenerate limit of the phase-field equations


Author: Barbara E. E. Stoth
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 53 (1995), 695-700
MSC: Primary 35Q99; Secondary 35K55, 80A22, 82B26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1359505
MathSciNet review: MR1359505
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Abstract: We show that the Cahn-Hilliard equation occurs as a special scaling limit of the phase-field equation.


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