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A coupled phase-field and hydrodynamic model is introduced to describe a two-phase, weakly compressible smectic (layered phase) in contact with an isotropic fluid of different density. A non-conserved smectic order parameter is coupled to a…
We deal with a system of two coupled differential equations, describing the evolution of a first order phase transition. In particular, we have two non-linear parabolic equations: the first one is deduced from a balance law for entropy and…
In the literature, contradictory results have been published regarding the form of the limiting (long-time) grain size distribution (LGSD) that characterizes the late stage grain coarsening in two-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional…
We study various dynamical aspects of systems possessing a first order phase transition in their phase diagram. We isolate three qualitatively distinct types of theories depending on the structure of instabilities and the nature of the low…
This study addresses microstructure selection mechanisms in rapid solidification, specifically targeting the transition from cellular/dendritic to planar interface morphologies under conditions relevant to additive manufacturing. We use a…
This paper introduces a novel approach for the construction of bulk--surface splitting schemes for semi-linear parabolic partial differential equations with dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed construction is based on a reformulation…
This paper is concerned with the existence and stability of phase transition steady states to a quasi-linear hyperbolic-parabolic system of chemotactic aggregation, which was proposed in \cite{ambrosi2005review, gamba2003percolation} to…
We use the sixth order linear parabolic equation \begin{equation} \frac{\partial y}{\partial t}=B\left(\alpha\frac{\partial^{6}y}{\partial x^{6}}-\frac{\partial^{4}y}{\partial x^{4}}\right),\ x\in \mathbb{R}_{+},\ t>0,\nonumber…
We propose a model describing the liquid-vapour phase transition according to a phase-field approach. The model takes up a setting proposed by the second author, where a phase field is introduced whose equilibrium values 0 and 1 are…
In this work we derive conditions that predict the existence of two-phase periodic-pattern grain boundary structures that are stable against coarsening. While previous research has established that elastic effects can lead to phase pattern…
Phase separation and coarsening is a phenomenon commonly seen in binary physical and chemical systems that occur in nature. Often times, thermal fluctuations, modeled as stochastic noise, are present in the system and the phase segregation…
Understanding the microstuctural evolution during the sintering process is of high relevance as it is a key part in many industrial manufacturing processes. Simulations are one avenue to achieve this understanding, especially field-resolved…
A general formulation is presented to derive the equation of motion and to demonstrate thermodynamic consistency for several classes of phase field models at once. It applies to models with a conserved phase field, describing either uniform…
This paper proposes a thermodynamically consistent phase-field damage model for viscoelastic materials. Suitable free-energy and pseudo-potentials of dissipation are developed to build a model leading to a stress-strain relation, under the…
The paper presents the first rigorous error analysis of an unfitted finite element method for a linear parabolic problem posed on an evolving domain $\Omega(t)$ that may undergo a topological change, such as, for example, a domain…
By combining different ideas, a general and efficient protocol to deal with discontinuous phase transitions at low temperatures is proposed. For small $T$'s, it is possible to derive a generic analytic expression for appropriate order…
In this paper, we deal with the parabolic KWC system, associated with the mathematical model of grain boundary motion. The goal of this paper is to guarantee the well-posedness of the parabolic KWC system. However, such results have not…
In this paper we investigate quasilinear parabolic systems of conserved Penrose-Fife type. We show maximal $L_p$ - regularity for this problem with inhomogeneous boundary data. Furthermore we prove global existence of a solution, provided…
It is established existence of bound and ground state solutions for quasilinear elliptic systems driven by (\phi 1, \phi 2)-Laplacian operator. The main feature here is to consider quasilinear elliptic systems involving both nonsingular…
The existence of global weak solutions to a parabolic energy-transport system in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proved. The model can be derived in the diffusion limit from a kinetic equation with a linear collision…