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This paper is concerned with a diffusion model of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, interpreted as balances of microforces and microenergy, for two unknowns: the problem's order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider an Allen-Cahn equation with nonlinear diffusion, motivated by the study of the scaling limit of certain interacting particle systems. We investigate its singular limit and show the generation and propagation of an interface in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Perla El Kettani , Tadahisa Funaki , Danielle Hilhorst , Hyunjoon Park , Sunder Sethuraman

We consider a non-isothermal modified Cahn--Hilliard equation which was previously analyzed by M. Grasselli et al. Such an equation is characterized by an inertial term and a viscous term and it is coupled with a hyperbolic heat equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Cecilia Cavaterra , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

The aim of this paper is to study the metastable properties of the solutions to a hyperbolic relaxation of the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension, subject to either Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions. To perform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

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

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of binary mixtures. In recent years, several types of dynamic boundary conditions have been proposed in order to account for possible short-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Chun Liu , Hao Wu

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a three-dimensional curved thin domain around a given closed surface. When the thickness of the curved thin domain tends to zero, we show that the weighted average…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Tatsu-Hiko Miura

We extend the invariant manifold method for analyzing the asymptotics of dissipative partial differential equations on unbounded spatial domains to treat equations in which the linear part has order greater than two. One important example…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -P. Eckmann , C. E. Wayne

This paper deals with an initial and boundary value problem for a system coupling equation and boundary condition both of Cahn-Hilliard type; an additional convective term with a forced velocity field, which could act as a control on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

Asymptotic expansion is constructed and justified for the solution to a nonuniform Neumann boundary-value problem for the Poisson equation with the right-hand side that depends both on longitudinal and transversal variables in a thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Arsen V. Klevtsovskiy , Taras A. Mel'nyk

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

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

Here we consider the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with constant mobility in a bounded domain. We prove that the associated dynamical system has an exponential attractor, provided that the potential is regular. In order to do that a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Ciprian G. Gal , Maurizio Grasselli

Our aim in this paper is to study the Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions. In particular, we prove, owing to proper approximations of the singular potential and a suitable notion of variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-01 Alain Miranville , Sergey Zelik

We consider the motion of a particle on a surface which is a small perturbation of the standard sphere. One may qualitatively describe the motion by means of a precessing great circle of the sphere. The observation is employed to derive a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Golo , D. O. Sinitsyn

In this paper, we study the sharp interface limit for solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with disparate mobilities. This means that the mobility function degenerates in one of the two energetically favorable configurations, suppressing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Milan Kroemer , Tim Laux

We obtain new integral representations, expressed as contour integrals in the complex Fourier plane, for the solution of fully nonhomogeneous interface problems for the linearized Cahn-Hilliard equation with arbitrary initial data on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Andreas Chatziafratis , Alain Miranville , Tohru Ozawa

The Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation has been proposed as a model for the interfacial energy of phase-separated mixtures of amphiphilic molecules. We study the existence of a nonnegative weak solutions of a gradient flow of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Shibin Dai , Qiang Liu , Toai Luong , Keith Promislow

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 show short-time well-posedness of a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Helmut Abels , Jonas Haselböck