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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…

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We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a family of nonlinear parabolic systems related to phase field models taking in account variations of temperature and the possibility of a general class of nonlinearities. The present…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Anderson L. A. de Araujo , José L. Boldrini , Bianca M. R. Calsavara

We examine the variation of the fine structure constant in the context of a two-field quintessence model. We find that, for solutions that lead to a transient late period of accelerated expansion, it is possible to fit the data arising from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. C. Bento , O. Bertolami , N. M. C. Santos

Phase Transition is associated with a drastic change in some observable (ordered parameter) of the system when the controlled parameter is tuned smoothly. Lee-Yang theory of phase transition is discussed which is related to the accumulation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-10 Shoaib Akhtar

Our general aim is to give sufficient conditions for robustness behavior and convergence to the equilibrium point of linear time-varying fractional system's solutions. We approach this problem using as a framework a series of recent results…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Javier A. Gallegos , Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud

In recent years, various phase field models have been developed in variational methods to simulate the failure of brittle solids. However, there is a lack of objective evaluation of the existing results, and in particular, there are few…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Yuanfeng Yu , Xiaoya Zheng , Peng Li , Zhongzhou Zhang , Jinyou Xiao

A general self-consistency approach allows a thorough treatment of the corrections to the mean-field approximation (MFA). The natural extension of standard MFA with the help of a cumulant expansion leads to a new point of view on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimo I. Uzunov

We study the convergence analysis of continuous-time dynamical systems associated with optimization methods for strongly convex functions. Recent works have proposed systematic constructions of Lyapunov functions for such analysis, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Atsushi Tabei , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

This article contributes to a framework for a computational indirect method based on the Pontryagin maximum principle to efficiently solve a class of state constrained time-optimal control problems in the presence of a time-dependent flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Roman Chertovskih , Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

We study the boundary behavior of solutions to parabolic double-phase equations through the celebrated Wiener's sufficiency criterion. The analysis is conducted for cylindrical domains and the regularity up to the lateral boundary is shown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Simone Ciani , Eurica Henriques , Igor Skrypnik

We consider a basic one-dimensional model of diffusion which allows to obtain a diversity of diffusive regimes whose speed depends on the moments of the per-site trapping time. This model is closely related to the continuous time random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Elena Floriani , Ricardo Lima , Edgardo Ugalde

We critically compare the practicality and accuracy of numerical approximations of phase field models and sharp interface models of solidification. Particular emphasis is put on Stefan problems, and their quasi-static variants, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

The dynamics of phase transitions plays a crucial r\^ole in the so-called interface between high energy particle physics and cosmology. Many of the interesting results generated during the last fifteen years or so rely on simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo Gleiser

The use of continuum phase-field models to describe the motion of well-defined interfaces is discussed for a class of phenomena, that includes order/disorder transitions, spinodal decomposition and Ostwald ripening, dendritic growth, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. R. Elder , Martin Grant , Nikolas Provatas , J. M. Kosterlitz

We aim to prove a unique solvability of an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for a time-fractional wave equation in a rectangular domain. We exploit the spectral expansion method as the main tool and used the solution to Cauchy problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erkinjon Karimov , Nasser Al-Salti , Muna Al-Ghabsi

Many-variable differential equations with random coefficients provide powerful models for the dynamics of many interacting species in ecology. These models are known to exhibit a dynamical phase transition from a phase where population…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-19 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Guy Bunin

We propose a double obstacle phase field methodology for binary recovery of the slowness function of an Eikonal equation found in first traveltime tomography. We treat the inverse problem as an optimization problem with quadratic misfit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Charles M. Elliott

We study the conformality loss of theories with long-range interactions. We consider the $O(2)\times O(N)$ multiscalar model with coupling $r^{-d-\delta}$ in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimension. We compute the critical exponents of the long-range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Zhijin Li

We study various dynamical aspects of systems possessing a first order phase transition in their phase diagram. We isolate three qualitatively distinct types of theories depending on the structure of instabilities and the nature of the low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-05 Loredana Bellantuono , Romuald A. Janik , Jakub Jankowski , Hesam Soltanpanahi

We consider the kinetic transport equation that arise in the Boltzmann-Grad limit of the two-dimensional periodic Lorentz Gas. This equation has been obtained by extending the phase space of positions and velocities through the introduction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Francesca Pieroni