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Title Convergence to equilibrium for discretized phase-field systems with gradient-like structure

Name Morgan Pierre
Country France
Email Morgan.Pierre@math.univ-poitiers.fr
Co-Author(s) N.E. Alaa
Submit Time 2014-02-19 08:15:43
Session
Special Session 47: Mathematical modelling and numerical methods for phase-field problems
Contents
A famous result of S. L ojasiewicz states that if $F:\mathbb{R}^d\to \mathbb{R}$ is real analytic, then every bounded solution $U$ of the gradient flow $U'(t)=-\nabla F(U(t))$ converges to a critical point of $F$ as $t\to +\infty$. This convergence result has been generalized to a large variety of finite or infinite dimensional gradient-like flows. In this talk, we show how some of these results can be adapted to time discretizations of gradient-like flows, in view of applications to Allen-Cahn, Cahn-Hilliard or phase-field crystal equations.