Special Session 85: Phase-field models and their singular limits

Sharp Interface Limit for 3D Navier-Stokes/Allen Cahn Systems
Yadong Liu
Nanjing Normal University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Helmut Abels, Mingwen Fei, Yadong Liu, and Maximillian Moser
Abstract:
In this talk, I will report a recent work on the sharp interface limit of a coupled Navier--Stokes/Allen--Cahn system in a three dimensional, bounded and smooth domain, when a parameter $\varepsilon > 0$ that is proportional to the thickness of the diffuse interface tends to zero, rigorously. The argument is based on the method of rigorous matched asymptotic expansions. In particular, we obtain optimal estimates for the linearized error system in $L^2$-Sobolev type spaces, which are second order in space of $\mathbf{w}$ and third order in space for $u$, with suitable weights. This provides better discription of the system close to the interface, which leads us to extend previous results from two dimensions to three dimensional case.