Universal Attractor for a Penrose-Fife System with Special Heat Flux Law

Abstract

A Penrose-Fife system for non isothermal phase transitions with non conserved order parameter is introduced. A linear growth of the latent heat density with respect to the phase field is allowed. Continous dependence on data and the existence of the universal attractor for the associated nonlinear semigroup are shown. These properties hold with respect to a strong metric accounting for the nonlinear and even singular terms characterizing the system. The present analysis extends a former result by the same authors, holding in the case of a constant latent heat.