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Higher-Order Anisotropic Caginalp Phase-Field Systems

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Our aim in this paper was to study the well-posedness and the dissipativity of higher-order anisotropic phase-field systems. More precisely, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions and the existence of the global attractor.

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Miranville, A. Higher-Order Anisotropic Caginalp Phase-Field Systems. Mediterr. J. Math. 13, 4519–4535 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-016-0760-2

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