Energy conservation for weak solutions of asurface growth model

We are concerned with one-dimensional scalar surface growth model arising from the physical process of molecular epitaxy. The mathematical theory of the surface growth model is known to share a number of striking similarities with the Navier-Stokes equations, including the results regarding existence and uniqueness of solutions. In this paper, we shall investigate an important subject in mathematical physics: the energy conservation for weak solutions of the surface growth model. As an analogue of the Navier-Stokes equations, we find some sufficient integral conditions that guarantee the validity of energy equality. As far as we know, this is the first result in this aspect. (C) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.