29 feb 2012 -- 17:00   [open in google calendar]

Sala Seminari, Department of Mathematics, Pisa University

Abstract.

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension and we show the convergence to a Stefan problem, as the scaling parameter tends to zero. The proof is based on variational methods and exploits the gradient flow structure of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.