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The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

In 2023, Cristoferi, Fonseca and Ganedi proved that Cahn-Hilliard type energies with spatially inhomogeneous potentials converge to the usual (isotropic and homogeneous) perimeter functional if the length-scale $\delta$ of spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Stephan Wojtowytsch

We examine the existence and stability of frozen waves in diblock copolymers with local conservation of the order parameter, which are described by the modified Cahn--Hilliard model. It is shown that a range of stable waves exists and each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. S. Benilov , W. T. Lee , R. O. Sedakov

We investigate the influence of surfactants on stabilizing the formation of interfaces in non-local anisotropic two-phase fluid at equilibrium. The analysis focuses on singularly perturbed non-local van der Waals-Cahn-Hillard-type energies,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Marco Cicalese , Tim Heilmann

We consider a general class of bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard systems with dynamic boundary conditions. In contrast to classical Neumann boundary conditions, the dynamic boundary conditions of Cahn--Hilliard type allow for dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Patrik Knopf , Jonas Stange

A well-known conjecture of De Giorgi -- motivated by analogy with the Bernstein problem for minimal surfaces -- asserts the rigidity of monotone solutions to the Allen--Cahn equation in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$, with $d\leq 7$. We establish close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Enric Florit-Simon

The stability of a horizontal interface between two viscous fluids, one of which is conducting and the other is dielectric, acted upon by a vertical time-periodic electric field is considered. The two fluids are bounded by electrodes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Aditya Bandopadhyay , Steffen Hardt

In this paper we prove general criticality criteria for operators $\Delta + V$ on manifolds with more than one end, where $V$ bounds the Ricci curvature, and a related spectral splitting theorem extending Cheeger-Gromoll's one. Our results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Giovanni Catino , Luciano Mari , Paolo Mastrolia , Alberto Roncoroni

In this note, we show that the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in any codimension is unique in the space of distance-decreasing maps. This follows as a corollary of the following stability theorem: if a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yng-Ing Lee , Mu-Tao Wang

We investigate liquid layers adsorbed at spherical and corrugated cylindrical substrates. The effective Hamiltonians for the liquid-gas interfaces fluctuating in the presence of such curved substrates are derived via the mean-field density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Dutka , M. Napiorkowski

We consider the sharp interface limit of a coupled Stokes/Cahn\textendash Hilliard system in a two dimensional, bounded and smooth domain, i.e., we consider the limiting behavior of solutions when a parameter $\epsilon>0$ corresponding to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Helmut Abels , Andreas Marquardt

We present the first of two articles on the small volume fraction limit of a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard functional introduced to model microphase separation of diblock copolymers. Here we focus attention on the sharp-interface version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-14 R. Choksi , M. A. Peletier

We prove a local minimizing property for strictly stable free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces in the relative current setting. Let $\Sigma^n$ be a compact, two-sided, properly embedded free-boundary minimal hypersurface in a compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Xiaoxiang Jiao , Hangyue Zhu

We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Alex Doak , Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

We study a phase-field variational model for the solvaiton of charged molecules with an implicit solvent. The solvation free-energy functional of all phase fields consists of the surface energy, solute excluded volume and solute-solvent van…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Shibin Dai , Bo Li , Jianfeng Lu

We show that stable solutions $u:\mathbb{R}^4\to (-1,1)$ to the Allen-Cahn equation with bounded energy density (or equivalently, with cubic energy growth) are one-dimensional. This is known to entail important geometric consequences, such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Enric Florit-Simon , Joaquim Serra

In this article we investigate the restrictions imposed by the dominant energy condition (DEC) on the topology and conformal type of \textsl{possibly non-compact} marginally outer-trapped surfaces (thus extending Hawking's classical theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Alessandro Carlotto

We prove a Weyl Law for the phase transition spectrum based on the techniques of Liokumovich-Marques-Neves. As an application we give phase transition adaptations of the proofs of the density and equidistribution of minimal hypersufaces for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Pedro Gaspar , Marco A. M. Guaraco

In this paper we give a new general method to describe all Kaehler scalar flat metrics on $U(n)$-invariant domains of C^n in a way to be able to detect easily whether it can be completed to larger domains and which kind of ends they can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-22 C. Arezzo , A. Della Vedova , Samreena

We show that strictly stable components of Allen-Cahn minimal hypersurfaces always occur with multiplicity one. We also establish the uniqueness of solutions converging to nondegenerate hypersurfaces with multiplicity one. Our results work…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Marco A. M. Guaraco , Fernando C. Marques , Andre Néves