Recent Results on the Cahn - Hilliard Equation with Dynamic Boundary Conditions

Abstract

The pure or viscous Cahn - Hilliard equation with possibly singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions is considered and the well-posedness of the related initial value problem is discussed. Then, a boundary control problem for the viscous Cahn - Hilliard system is studied and first order necessary conditions for optimality are shown. Moreover, the same boundary control problem is addressed for the pure Cahn - Hilliard system, by investigating it and passing to the limit in the analogous results for the viscous Cahn - Hilliard system as the viscosity coefficient tends to zero.