Special Session 5: New trends in pattern formations and dynamics for dissipative systems and related topics

Global in time weak solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Mullins-Sekerka system
Andrea Poiatti
University of Parma
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Helmut Abels
Abstract:
In this talk, I would like to introduce a model for the flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids in a bounded domain, with different densities and viscosities. This model consists of a coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Mullins-Sekerka type parts, and can be obtained from the asymptotic limit of the diffuse interface model introduced by Abels, Garcke, and Gr\{u}n in 2012. I will introduce a new notion of weak solutions and prove its global in time existence, together with a consistency result. This new notion of solution allows to include the case of different densities of the fluids, a sharp De Giorgi energy dissipation principle, as well as a weak formulation of the constant contact angle condition at the boundary, which were left open in the previous notion of solution proposed by Abels and R\{o}ger in 2009.