Nucleation in the one-dimensional stochastic Cahn-Hilliard model

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-52

  Blömker, Dirk ^a   Gawron, Bernhard ^b   Wanner, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor structure; Cahn Hilliard Cook model; Domain exit; Large deviations; Nucleation; Stochastic partial differential equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955395805     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2010.27.25     Document Type: Article

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