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In this paper, we study a system of three evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded, linear operators having compact resolvents. This system constitutes a generalized and relaxed version…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

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 an optimal control problem for a diffuse interface model of tumor growth. The state equations couples a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a reaction-diffusion equation, which models the growth of a tumor in the presence of a nutrient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Harald Garcke , Kei-Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Maurizio Grasselli , Bohan Ouyang , Andrea Poiatti , Hao Wu

A diffused interface model describing the evolution of two conterminous incompressible fluids in a porous medium is discussed. The system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins logarithmic potential, coupled via surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

We consider a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids with matched constant densities. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Elisabetta Rocca

We analyze a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows influenced by interactions with a soluble chemical substance, encompassing the chemotaxis effect, mass transport, and reactions. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

The global existence of bounded weak solutions to a diffusion system modeling biofilm growth is proven. The equations consist of a reaction-diffusion equation for the substrate concentration and a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard-type equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Christoph Helmer , Ansgar Jüngel

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

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

In this paper, we study the tumor growth equation along with various models for the nutrient component, including the \emph{in vitro} model and the \emph{in vivo} model. At the cell density level, the spatial availability of the tumor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Jian-Guo Liu , Min Tang , Li Wang , Zhennan Zhou

We consider a one-dimensional version of a model obtained in [C. Engwer, A. Hunt, and C. Surulescu: Effective equations for anisotropic glioma spread with proliferation: a multiscale approach and comparisons with previous settings, IMA J.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Michael Winkler , Christina Surulescu

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Jingning He , Hao Wu

We prove convergence of suitable subsequences of weak solutions of a diffuse interface model for the two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities with a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

We introduce a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density. The main novelty of the present contribution consists in the fact that the effects of temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We extend previous weak well-posedness results obtained in Frigeri et al. (2017) concerning a non-local variant of a diffuse interface tumor model proposed by Hawkins-Daarud et al. (2012). The model consists of a non-local Cahn--Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 S. Frigeri , K. F. Lam , A. Signori

We introduce a nonisothermal phase-field system of Caginalp type that describes tumor growth under hyperthermia. The model couples a possibly viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the healthy and tumor phases, with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Giulia Cavalleri , Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca

We show existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system on a given two-dimensional evolving surface in the case of different densities and a singular (logarithmic) potential. The system describes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

We develop a linear fully discrete structure-preserving finite element method for a diffuse-interface model of tumour growth. The system couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation with a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation for nutrient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Agus L. Soenjaya , Ping Lin , Thanh Tran