Energy-dissipation in a coupled system of Allen--Cahn type equation and
Kobayashi--Warren--Carter type model of grain boundary motion
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a system of initial boundary value problems
for parabolic equations, as a generalized version of the “φ-η-θ model’‘
of grain boundary motion, proposed by Kobayashi [16]. The system is
a coupled system of: an Allen–Cahn type equation as in (1.1) with a
given temperature source; and a phase-field model of grain boundary
motion, known as “Kobayashi–Warren–Carter type model”. The focus of
the study is on a special kind of solution, called energy-dissipative
solution, which is to reproduce the energy-dissipation of the governing
energy in time. Under suitable assumptions, two Main Theorems, concerned
with: the existence of energy-dissipative solution; and the large-time
behavior; will be demonstrated as the results of this paper.