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We study a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows with chemotaxis effects. This model also takes into account some significant mechanisms such as active transport and nonlocal interactions of…

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We study the interactions between the thermodynamic transition and hydrodynamic flows which would characterise a thermo- and hydro-dynamic evolution of a binary mixture in a dissolution/nucleation process. The primary attention is given to…

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In this paper, we consider a semi-classical version of the nonhomogeneous heat equation with singular time-dependent coefficients on the lattice $\hbar \mathbb{Z}^n$. We establish the well-posedeness of such Cauchy equations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Marianna Chatzakou , Aparajita Dasgupta , Michael Ruzhansky , Abhilash Tushir

We consider a differential model describing nonisothermal fast phase separation processes taking place in a three-dimensional bounded domain. This model consists of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation characterized by the presence of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maurizio Grasselli , Hana Petzeltova , Giulio Schimperna

In this work, we study a phase transition model in atmospheric dynamics, inspired by the works [6,14,15], which analyze the primitive equations governing the evolution of velocity, temperature, and specific humidity. The main difficulty…

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In this paper, we consider some hyperbolic variants of the mass conserving Allen-Cahn equation, which is a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation, introduced (as a simpler alternative to the Cahn-Hilliard equation) to describe phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Raffaele Folino

In this paper, we study the heat equation with an irregular spatially dependent thermal conductivity coefficient. We prove that it has a solution in an appropriate very weak sense. Moreover, the uniqueness result and consistency with the…

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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…

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In this paper we consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation endowed with Wentzell boundary condition which is a model of phase separation in a binary mixture contained in a bounded domain with permeable wall. Under the assumption that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-14 Hao Wu

The degenerate de Gennes-Cahn-Hilliard (dGCH) equation is a model for phase separation which may more closely approximate surface diffusion than others in the limit when the thickness of the transition layer approaches zero. As a first step…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Shibin Dai , Joseph Renzi , Steven M. Wise

A simple non-local theoretical model is developed considering concentrated ionic surfactant solutions as regular ones. Their thermodynamics is described by the Cahn-Hilliard theory coupled with electrostatics. It is discovered that unstable…

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A numerical method is formulated for the solution of the advective Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation with constant and degenerate mobility in three-dimensional porous media with non-vanishing velocity on the exterior boundary. The CH equation…

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In this paper we investigate the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for kinetic stochastic differential equations with H\"older diffusion and unbounded singular drifts in Kato's class. Moreover, we also establish sharp two-sided…

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While various phase-field models have recently appeared for two-phase fluids with different densities, only some are known to be thermodynamically consistent, and practical stable schemes for their numerical simulation are lacking. In this…

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A simplified transient energy-transport system for semiconductors subject to mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. The model is formally derived from the non-isothermal hydrodynamic equations in a particular vanishing…

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In this paper we discuss a family of viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with a non-smooth viscosity term. This system may be viewed as an approximation of a "forward-backward" parabolic equation. The resulting problem is highly nonlinear,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Luca Scarpa , Giuseppe Tomassetti

We propose in this paper a new multiphase Cahn-Hilliard model with doubly degenerate mobilities. We prove by a formal asymptotic analysis that it approximates with second order accuracy the multiphase surface diffusion flow with mobility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Elie Bretin , Roland Denis , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

We investigate a hydrodynamic system of Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard type, which describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with unmatched densities coupled with a soluble chemical species. Derived from Onsager's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

We consider a diffuse-interface model for two-phase incompressible viscous flows with a soluble surfactant in a bounded porous medium. This hydrodynamic system consists of a Darcy--Forchheimer equation for the seepage velocity…

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