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This work represents a first contribution on the problem of boundary stabilization for the phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type, which models the phase separation in a binary mixture. The feedback controller we design here is with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Ionut Munteanu

Recently, we have derived an effective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase separation dynamics of active Brownian particles by performing a weakly non-linear analysis of the effective hydrodynamic equations for density and polarization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Thomas Speck , Andreas M. Menzel , Julian Bialké , Hartmut Löwen

The kinetic separation of repulsive active Brownian particles into a dense and a dilute phase is analyzed using a systematic coarse-graining strategy. We derive an effective Cahn-Hilliard equation on large length and time scales, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-02 Thomas Speck , Julian Bialké , Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

We introduce a new measure of coarseness for characterizing phase separation processes such as those described by Cahn--Hilliard equations. An advantage of our measure is that it remains consistent throughout the evolution, including for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

In this paper we propose a mathematical model of phase separation for a quasi-incompressible binary mixture where the spinodal decomposition is induced by an heat flux governed by the Cattaneo-Maxwell equation. As usual, the phase…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 A. Berti , I. Bochicchio , M. Fabrizio

This paper deals with time stepping schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with three different types of dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed schemes of first and second order are mass-conservative and energy-dissipative and -- as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. Altmann , C. Zimmer

We propose an active Cahn-Hilliard theory for the dynamics of a new type of phase transition where the driving force is not the direct interactions between the two separating components, but their active sorting by a third polar species.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-02 Sudipta Pattanayak , Alfredo Sciortino , Laurent Blanchoin , Manuel Théry , Jean-Francois Joanny

This paper presents a study of solution strategies for the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot equations, a complex mathematical model for understanding flow in deformable porous media with changing solid phases. Solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot system poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Erlend Storvik , Cedric Riethmüller , Jakub Wiktor Both , Florin Adrian Radu

The mathematical analysis of diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows has attracted significant attention due to their ability to capture complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified, energetically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

The Cahn-Hilliard equation describes phase separation in binary liquids. Here we study this equation with spatially-varying sources and stirring, or advection. We specialize to symmetric mixtures and time-independent sources and discuss…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-26 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

The Cahn-Hilliard and viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with singular and possibly nonsmooth potentials and dynamic boundary condition are considered and some well-posedness and regularity results are proved. Key words: Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

This article is concerned with the internal feedback stabilization of the phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type, modeling the phase separation in a binary mixture. Under suitable assumptions on an arbitrarily fixed stationary solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Viorel Barbu , Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Gabriela Marinoschi

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a widely used model for describing phase separation processes in a binary mixture. In this paper, we investigate the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with a degenerate, phase-dependent mobility. We define the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Toai Luong

We consider coarsening dynamics associated with a Burgers--Cahn--Hilliard system modeling a two-phase flow in one space dimension. Our emphasis is on the effect that coupling between the phase and fluid dynamics has on coarsening rates, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the commonly used binary fluid-surfactant phase field model that consists two nonlinearly coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations. The main challenge in solving the system numerically is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Xiaofeng Yang

This paper is concerned with a thermomechanical model describing phase separation phenomena in terms of the entropy balance and equilibrium equations for the microforces. The related system is highly nonlinear and admits singular potentials…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Pierluigi Colli , Shunsuke Kurima

If a binary liquid mixture, composed of two alternative species with equal amounts, is quenched from a high temperature to a low temperature, below the critical point of demixing, then the mixture will phase separate through a process known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-04 Thomas J. Longo , Mikhail A. Anisimov

Using the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation as a model, we illuminate the role of advection in phase-separating binary liquids. The advecting velocity is either prescribed, or is determined by an evolution equation that accounts for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-12 Lennon O Naraigh

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which models phase separation in binary fluids, on the two-dimen\-sional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow, satisfying certain conditions and of sufficiently large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Anna L. Mazzucato , Xiaoqian Xu

This work addresses the problem of solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation numerically. For that we introduce an abstract formulation for Cahn-Hilliard type equations with dynamic boundary conditions, we conduct the spatial semidiscretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Paula Harder