Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1740-1760.doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(17)30104-2

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DISCONTINUOUS TRAVELING WAVE ENTROPY SOLUTIONS OF A MODIFIED ALLEN-CAHN MODEL

Tianyuan XU1, Chunhua JIN1, Shanming JI2   

  1. 1. School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
    2. School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
  • Received:2016-06-28 Revised:2017-06-16 Online:2017-12-25 Published:2017-12-25
  • Contact: Shanming JI E-mail:jishanming7@126.com
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education (NCET-13-0804), NSFC (11471127, 11371153), Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar (2015A030306029), the Excellent Young Teachers Program of Guangdong Province, and Special support program of Guangdong Province. The research of Xu was supported by the Innovation Project of Graduate School of South China Normal University (2016lkxm70), the High-Level University Developments Innovation Project of Graduate School of South China Normal University (2016YN05) and the Top-Notch Graduate Foundation of South China Normal University (2016028). The research of Ji was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2017BQ109) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M610517).

Abstract:

This paper deals with the existence and the asymptotic behavior of discontinuous traveling wave entropy solutions for a modified Allen-Cahn model, in which, the usual Ficken-based model for phase transition is replaced with a more physical model with nonlinear diffusive flux. The discontinuous traveling waves correspond to the discontinuous phase transition phenomena.

Key words: discontinuous traveling wave, phase transition, entropy condition

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