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On the Existence of Global Attractor for 3D Viscous Cahn-Hilliard Equation

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This paper is concerned with the global dynamic for the solution semiflow of the 3D viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation on a bounded domain Ω. We show that the equation has a global attractor in H 4(Ω) when the initial value belongs to H 1(Ω).

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This paper is supported by the “Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China for Young Scholar (No. BK20140130)” and the “Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. JUSRP11407)”.

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Zhao, X., Liu, C. On the Existence of Global Attractor for 3D Viscous Cahn-Hilliard Equation. Acta Appl Math 138, 199–212 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-014-9963-3

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