MERCOLEDI' 29 FEBBRAIO 2012
17:00-18:00, Sala Seminari (Dip. Matematica)

SEMINARI DI CALCOLO DELLE VARIAZIONI E ANALISI GEOMETRICA
On the Convergence of the Cahn-Hilliard equation
Matteo Novaga (Padua University)


We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension
and we show the convergence to a Stefan problem, as the scaling parameter
tends to zero. The proof is based on variational methods and exploits the
gradient flow structure of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.