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In this paper, we study a hyperbolic relaxation of the viscous Cahn--Hilliard system with zero Neumann boundary conditions. In fact, we consider a relaxation term involving the second time derivative of the chemical potential in the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels

Problems for partial differential equations coupled with dynamic boundary conditions can be viewed as a type of transmission problem between the bulk and its boundary. For the heat equation and the Allen-Cahn equation, various forms of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

The well-known Cahn-Hilliard equation entails mass conservation if a suitable boundary condition is prescribed. In the case when the equation is also coupled with a dynamic boundary condition, including the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

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

To describe highly heterogeneous systems using the Cahn-Hilliard equation, the standard form of the thermodynamic potential with a constant coefficient in the gradient term and a polynomial of the fourth degree may not be sufficient. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-20 P. O. Mchedlov-Petrosyan , L. N. Davydov , O. A. Osmaev

In this work, we deal with the stochastic counterpart of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with regular potential in a smooth bounded one-, two- or three-dimensional domain. The problem is endowed with homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Andrea Di Primio , Christoph Hurm

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 consider the two-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation with logarithmic potentials and periodic boundary conditions. We employ the standard semi-implicit numerical scheme which treats the linear fourth-order dissipation term implicitly and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Dong Li , Tao Tang

A rigorous proof is given for the convergence of the solutions of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard system to the solution of the regularized version of the forward-backward parabolic equation, as the coefficient of the diffusive term goes to 0.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Pierluigi Colli , Luca Scarpa

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 study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 David O'Connor , Bjorn Stinner

We consider the numerical approximations of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions (C. Liu et. al., Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 2019). We propose a first-order in time, linear and energy stable numerical scheme, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Xuelian Bao , Hui Zhang

We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d = 2, 3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli

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

The Cahn--Hilliard equation with anisotropic energy contributions frequently appears in many physical systems. Systematic analytical results for the case with the relevant logarithmic free energy have been missing so far. We close this gap…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf , Julia Wittmann

The existence problem for {C}ahn--{H}illiard system with dynamic boundary conditions and time periodic conditions is discussed. We apply the abstract theory of evolution equations by using viscosity approach and the Schauder fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Taishi Motoda

We prove well-posedness and regularity for the stochastic pure Cahn-Hilliard equation under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, with both additive and multiplicative Wiener noise. In contrast with great part of the literature, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Luca Scarpa

In this paper we study a distributed control problem for a phase-field system of conserved type with a possibly singular potential. We mainly handle two cases: the case of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard type dynamics for the phase variable in case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 P. Colli , G. Gilardi , G. Marinoschi , E. Rocca

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 the present contribution we study a viscous Cahn-Hilliard system where a further leading term in the expression for the chemical potential $ \mu$ is present. This term consists of a subdifferential operator $S$ in $L^2(\Omega)$ (where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Gabriela Marinoschi