Sharp Interface Limit of a Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard System, Part II: Approximate Solutions

Helmut Abels, Andreas Marquardt

Published 2020-03-31Version 1

We construct rigorously suitable approximate solutions to the Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system by using the method of matched asymptotics expansions. This is a main step in the proof of convergence given in the first part of this contribution, where the rigorous sharp interface limit of a coupled Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system in a two dimensional, bounded and smooth domain is shown. As a novelty compared to earlier works, we introduce fractional order terms, which are of significant importance, but share the problematic feature that they may not be uniformly estimated in $\epsilon$ in arbitrarily strong norms. As a consequence, gaining necessary estimates for the error, which occurs when considering the approximations in the Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system, is rather involved.