Traveling wave dynamics for Allen-Cahn equations with strong irreversibility

Akagi, Goro; Kuehn, Christian; Nakamura, Ken-Ichi

doi:10.1090/tran/8583

Traveling wave dynamics for Allen-Cahn equations with strong irreversibility
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Abstract:

Constrained gradient flows are studied in fracture mechanics to describe strongly irreversible (or unidirectional) evolution of cracks. The present paper is devoted to a study on the long-time behavior of non-compact orbits of such constrained gradient flows. More precisely, traveling wave dynamics for a one-dimensional fully nonlinear Allen-Cahn type equation involving the positive-part function is considered. Main results of the paper consist of a construction of a one-parameter family of degenerate traveling wave solutions (even identified when coinciding up to translation) and exponential stability of such traveling wave solutions with some basin of attraction, although they are unstable in a usual sense.

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