Local Well-posedness of a Diffuse Interface Two-phase Flow Model with Surfactants

Helmut Abels; Songzhuang Chen

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Local Well-posedness of a Diffuse Interface Two-phase Flow Model with Surfactants

Helmut Abels·Songzhuang Chen

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We establish the local well-posedness of strong solutions for a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model describing two-phase flows with surfactants, specifically the so-called Model C introduced by Garcke, Lam, and Stinner. Because of the non-standard, mixed-order strongly coupled structure of Model C, the classical Agmon-Douglis-Nirenberg theory and conventional Lopatinskii-Shapiro boundary conditions are not applicable due to divergent scaling behaviors. To overcome this, we develop a tailored resolvent analysis, adapted to the temporal regularity of the source term, in a suitable Hilbert space, which yields an exact cancellation of the highest-order cross-couplings in the estimates. This crucial decoupling enables the rigorous application of the operator-valued Mikhlin multiplier theorem to obtain resolvent estimates on $\mathbb{R}$. Furthermore, we analyze a structural variant, denoted as Model D, which achieves a crucial structural decoupling by transferring the interfacial surfactant energy entirely from the gradient part to the potential part, and we readily establish local well-posedness for strong solutions.

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Helmut Abels, Songzhuang Chen. 2026-10-02. Local Well-posedness of a Diffuse Interface Two-phase Flow Model with Surfactants. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03342

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