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We study a diffuse-interface model for thermally driven phase separation in viscous incompressible mixtures. The system couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the order parameter with a Stokes subsystem for the velocity-pressure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Maria Deliyianni , Boris Muha , Andrej Novak

We analyze a diffuse interface model that couples a viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase variable with a diffusion-reaction equation for the nutrient concentration. The system under consideration also takes into account some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Jingning He

We show stabilisation of solutions to the sixth-order convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. {The problem} has the structure of a gradient flow perturbed by a quadratic destabilising term with coefficient $\delta>0$. Through application of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Piotr Rybka , Glen Wheeler

We find analytical solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the dynamics of an interface in a system with a conserved order parameter (Model B). We show that, although steady-state solutions of Model B are unphysical in the far-field,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. L. Evans , M. E. Cates

We consider a mathematical model coupling the Cahn-Hilliard system for phase separation with an additional equation describing the diffusion process of a chemical quantity whose concentration influences the physical process. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Giulio Schimperna , Antonio Segatti

We consider a one dimensional periodic forward-backward parabolic equation, regularized by a non-linear fourth order term of order $\epsilon^2\ll 1$. This equation is known in the literature as Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Matias G. Delgadino

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

We present an extension of the Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard system which incorporates a geometrically linear ansatz for the elastic energy of the precipitates. The model contains both the elastic Allen-Cahn system and the elastic Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Thomas Blesgen , Anja Schlömerkemper

In this article we present a refined convergence analysis for a second order accurate in time, fourth order finite difference numerical scheme for the 3-D Cahn-Hilliard equation, with an improved convergence constant. A modified backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jing Guo , Cheng Wang , Yue Yan , Xingye Yue

A well-known diffuse interface model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations nonlinearly coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation. This system describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary-fluids and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Pierluigi Colli , Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

This paper examines the well-posedness of the Stefan problem with a dynamic boundary condition. To show the existence of the weak solution, the original problem is approximated by a limit of an equation and dynamic boundary condition of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Takeshi Fukao

Efficient and energy stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for the study of nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and study two linearly stabilized second order semi-implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

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 present a computer-assisted proof of heteroclinic connections in the one-dimensional Ohta-Kawasaki model of diblock copolymers. The model is a fourth-order parabolic partial differential equation subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Jacek Cyranka , Thomas Wanner

In the context of a nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics, based on a nonequilibrium statistical ensemble formalism, a generalized hydrodynamics of fluids under driven flow and shear stress is derived. At the thermodynamic level, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues , José G. Ramos , Carlos A. B. Silva , Roberto Luzzi

The Cahn-Hilliard equation with an externally-prescribed chaotic shear flow is studied in two and three dimensions. The main goal is to compare and contrast the phase separation in two and three dimensions, using high-resolution numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-23 Lennon O'Naraigh , Selma Shun , Aurore Naso

We study an alloy system where short-ranged, thermally-driven diffusion competes with externally imposed, finite-ranged, athermal atomic exchanges, as is the case in alloys under irradiation. Using a Cahn-Hilliard-type approach, we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Raul A. Enrique , Pascal Bellon

We study the growth of a periodic pattern in one dimension for a model of spinodal decomposition, the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We particularly focus on the intermediate region, where the non-linearity cannot be negected anymore, and before…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Villain-Guillot , Christophe Josserand

A nonisothermal phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type is introduced and analyzed mathematically. The system constitutes an extension of the classical Caginalp model for nonisothermal phase transitions with a conserved order parameter. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner