Global solvability and blow up for the convective Cahn-Hilliard equations with concave potentials

We study initial boundary value problems for the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation $Dt u +px^4u +upx u+px^2(|u|^pu)=0$. It is well-known that without the convective term, the solutions of this equation may blow up in finite time for any $p>0$. In contrast to that, we show that the presence of the convective term $upx u$ in the Cahn-Hilliard equation prevents blow up at least for $0<p<frac49$. We also show that the blowing up solutions still exist if $p$ is large enough ($pge2$). The related equations like Kolmogorov-Sivashinsky-Spiegel equation, sixth order convective Cahn-Hilliard equation, are also considered.