One-sided Mullins-Sekerka Flow Does Not Preserve Convexity

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1993-12-13

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Mayer, Uwe F.

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Southwest Texas State University, Department of Mathematics

Abstract

The Mullins-Sekerka model is a nonlocal evolution model for hyper-surfaces, which arises as a singular limit for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. Assuming the existence of sufficiently smooth solutions we will show that the one-sided Mullins-Sekerka flow does not preserve convexity.

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Mullins-Sekerka flow, Hele-Shaw flow, Cahn-Hilliard equation, Free boundary problem, Convexity, Curvature

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Mayer, U. F. (1993). One-sided Mullins-Sekerka Flow Does Not Preserve Convexity. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 1993</i>(08), pp. 1-7.

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