2017-04-272017-04-272017-04Caraballo Garrido, T. y Colucci, R. (2017). A qualitative description of microstructure formation and coarsening phenomena for an evolution equation. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, 24 (14), 1-24.1021-97221420-9004http://hdl.handle.net/11441/58707We provide a qualitative description of microstructure formation and coarsening phenomena for the solutions of a singularly perturbed fourth order evolution equation arising in the study of phase transitions. In particular we study stationary and traveling wave solutions and we construct a class of approximate solution which mimics the principle features of the dynamics. Finally we present several simulations in order to illustrate the results.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Forward-backward diffusionPhase transitionsTraveling wavesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.1007/s00030-017-0437-y