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We investigate the propagation of the slip front in the elastic body on the rigid substrate. We first obtain the slip profile and the slip front velocity of the steady state by employing the local friction law with the quadratic form of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-18 Takehito Suzuki , Hiroshi Matsukawa

Phase field models are widely used to describe multiphase systems. Here a smooth indicator function, called phase field, is used to describe the spatial distribution of the phases under investigation. Material properties like density or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Christian Kahle

We study the numerical solution of a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn system with strong coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices. A fully discrete approximation scheme in space and time is proposed which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

We analyze a coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Forchheimer system featuring concentration-dependent mobility, mass source and convective transport. The velocity field is governed by a generalized quasi-incompressible Forchheimer equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Marvin Fritz

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for phase separation phenomena. Its rigorous derivation from the nonlocal aggregation equation, motivated by the desire to link interacting particle systems and continuous descriptions, has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Charles Elbar , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

We study the stationary and transient behaviors of the microemulsion phase subjected to a shear flow. The system is described by a diffusion-convective equation which generalizes the usual Cahn-Hilliard equation. Non-linear terms are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Giuseppe Gonnella , Marco Ruggieri

We consider a minimal go-or-grow model of cell invasion, whereby cells can either proliferate, following logistic growth, or move, via linear diffusion, and phenotypic switching between these two states is density-dependent. Formal analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Carles Falcó , Rebecca M. Crossley , Ruth E. Baker

This paper introduces a stabilized finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard cross-diffusion model, which is characterized by strongly coupled mobilities, nonlinear diffusion, and complex cross-diffusion terms. These features pose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Boyi Wang , Naresh Kumar , Jinyun Yuan

We propose a weak solution theory for the sharp interface limit of the Cahn-Hilliard reaction model, a variational PDE for lithium-ion batteries. An essential feature of this model is the use of Butler-Volmer kinetics for lithium-ion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Tim Laux , Kerrek Stinson

In this work, we investigate a distributed optimal control problem for an extended phase field system of Cahn--Hilliard type which physical context is that of tumor growth dynamics. In a previous contribution, the author has already studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Andrea Signori

We obtain new integral representations, expressed as contour integrals in the complex Fourier plane, for the solution of fully nonhomogeneous interface problems for the linearized Cahn-Hilliard equation with arbitrary initial data on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Andreas Chatziafratis , Alain Miranville , Tohru Ozawa

The collective chasing dynamics of non-reciprocally coupled densities leads to stable travelling waves which can be mapped to a model for emergent flocking. In this work, we couple the non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model (NRCH) to a fluid to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-08 Giulia Pisegna , Navdeep Rana , Ramin Golestanian , Suropriya Saha

We study existence of solutions in the variational sense for a class of stochastic phase-field models describing moving boundary problems. The models consist of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with singular diffusion forced by a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Amjad Saef , Wilhelm Stannat

We develop and analyse a discrete, one-dimensional model of cell motility which incorporates the effects of volume filling, cell-to-cell adhesion and chemotaxis. The formal continuum limit of the model is a nonlinear generalisation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-14 K. Anguige

In this work, we analyze a diffuse-interface model for tumor growth, subject to multiplicative white noises, posed on a bounded domain $\mathcal{O} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. The model couples a stochastic incompressible convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Kalpana Rawat , Kumarasamy Sakthivel

This paper proposes a model for the growth two interacting populations of cells that do not mix. The dynamics is driven by pressure and cohesion forces on the one hand and proliferation on the other hand. Following earlier works on the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-12 Alina Chertock , Pierre Degond , Sophie Hecht , Jean-Paul Vincent

This paper tackles the approximation of surface diffusion flow using a Cahn--Hilliard-type model. We introduce and analyze a new second order variational phase field model which associates the classical Cahn--Hilliard energy with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

We study time continuous branching processes with exponentially distributed lifetimes, with two types of cells that proliferate according to binary fission. A range of possible system dynamics are considered, each of which is characterized…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Nam H Nguyen , Marek Kimmel

We consider a system of two PDEs arising in modeling of motility of eukariotic cells on substrates. This system consists of the Allen-Cahn equation for the scalar phase field function coupled with another vectorial parabolic equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Leonid Berlyand , Volodymyr Rybalko , Mykhailo Potomkin

We study transport dynamics of free fermions subject to the external monitoring of a conserved charge over an extensive region. Focusing on bipartition protocols, we consider monitoring the total particle number over half of the system, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-08 Pablo Bayona-Pena , Michele Mazzoni , Lorenzo Piroli