Stability of Curved Interfaces in the Perturbed Two-Dimensional Allen-Cahn System
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2009Author
Iron, David
Kolokolonikov, Theodore
Rumsey, John
Wei, Juncheng
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We consider the singular limit of a perturbed Allen-Cahn model on a bounded two-dimensional domain: $\left\{\begin{array}{@{}ll@{}} u_t = \varepsilon^2 \Delta u - 2 (u - \varepsilon a) (u^2 - 1), & x \in \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2 \ \partial_n u = 0, & x \in \partial \Omega \end{array} \right.$ where $\varepsilon$ is a small parameter and $a$ is an $O(1)$ quantity. We study equilibrium solutions that have the form of a curved interface. Using singular perturbation techniques, we fully characterize the stability of such an equilibrium in terms of a certain geometric eigenvalue problem, and give a simple geometric interpretation of our stability results. Full numerical computations of the time-dependent PDE as well as of the associated two-dimensional eigenvalue problem are shown to be in excellent agreement with the analytical predictions.
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Iron, David, Theodore Kolokolonikov, John Rumsey, and Juncheng Wei. 2009. "Stability of Curved Interfaces in the Perturbed Two-Dimensional Allen-Cahn System." SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 69(5): 1228-16.