Generalized Ginzburg-Landau and Cahn-Hilliard equations based on a microforce balance

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Abstract

A unified framework for equations of Ginzburg-Landau and Cahn-Hilliard type is developed using, as a basis, a balance law for microforces in conjunction with constitutive equations consistent with a mechanical version of the second law.

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