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A numerical method is formulated for the solution of the advective Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation with constant and degenerate mobility in three-dimensional porous media with non-vanishing velocity on the exterior boundary. The CH equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Florian Frank , Chen Liu , Faruk O. Alpak , Beatrice Riviere

In this paper, we consider a stochastic version of the Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman model in a smooth two- or three-dimensional domain with dynamical boundary conditions. The system describes creeping two-phase flows and is basically a coupling…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Z. Brzeźniak , A. Ndongmo Ngana , T. Tachim Medjo

In this work, we study a model consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-type equation for the concentration of tumour cells coupled to a reaction-diffusion type equation for the nutrient density and a Brinkman-type equation for the velocity. We equip…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Matthias Ebenbeck , Harald Garcke

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Patrik Knopf , Kei Fong Lam , Chun Liu , Stefan Metzger

We augment a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model for the description of line tension phenomena by multiplicative stochastic noise to capture the effects of thermal fluctuations and establish the existence of pathwise unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Stefan Metzger

An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We study a non-local variant of a diffuse interface model proposed by Hawkins--Darrud et al. (2012) for tumour growth in the presence of a chemical species acting as nutrient. The system consists of a Cahn--Hilliard equation coupled to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Sergio Frigeri , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca

We introduce a new diffuse interface model for tumour growth in the presence of a nutrient, in which we take into account mechanical effects and reversible tissue damage. The highly nonlinear PDEs system mainly consists of a Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Giulia Cavalleri

The aim of this article is to study a Cahn-Hilliard model for a multicomponent mixture with cross-diffusion effects, degenerate mobility and where only one of the species does separate from the others. We define a notion of weak solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Virginie Ehrlacher , Greta Marino , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

In this article, we consider the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation driven by multiplicative space-time white noise with diffusion coefficient of sublinear growth. By introducing the spectral Galerkin method, we first obtain the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Jianbo Cui , Jialin Hong

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a classic model of phase separation in binary mixtures that exhibits spontaneous coarsening of the phases. We study the Cahn--Hilliard equation with an imposed advection term in order to model the stirring and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We study a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of the flow of a binary fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy (CHD) type system with transport and mass source. A relevant physical application is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Giorgini , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

In this work, we develop a structure-preserving numerical scheme for a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy model that describes tumor growth in a fluid-saturated porous medium. First, we derive a physically consistent model from the general framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Daniel Acosta-Soba , Francisco Guillén-González , J. Rafael Rodríguez-Galván

In this paper, we aim to study the motions of interfaces and coarsening rates governed by the time-fractional Cahn--Hilliard equation (TFCHE). It is observed by many numerical experiments that the microstructure evolution described by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Tao Tang , Boyi Wang , Jiang Yang

Phase field models frequently provide insight to phase transitions, and are robust numerical tools to solve free boundary problems corresponding to the motion of interfaces. A body of prior literature suggests that interface motion via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 Alpha A Lee , Andreas Münch , Endre Süli

We analyze a phase field model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system, ruling the evolution of the tumor mass, coupled with an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for a chemical species acting as a nutrient. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a model for the dynamics of growing cell populations with heterogeneous mobility and proliferation rate. The cell phenotypic state is described by a continuous structuring variable and the evolution of the local cell population…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Tommaso Lorenzi , Benoît Perthame , Xinran Ruan

The initial boundary value problem for a Cahn-Hilliard system subject to a dynamic boundary condition of Allen-Cahn type is treated. The vanishing of the surface diffusion on the dynamic boundary condition is the point of emphasis. By the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

We introduce a multi-species diffuse interface model for tumor growth, characterized by its incorporation of essential features related to chemotaxis, angiogenesis and proliferation mechanisms. We establish the weak well-posedness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Abramo Agosti , Andrea Signori

In this paper we study a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard model (CHE) in the framework of random walk spaces, which includes as particular cases, the CHE on locally finite weighted connected graphs, the CHE determined by finite Markov chains or the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 José M. Mazón , Julián Toledo