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The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

Consider neutron transport equations in 3D convex domains with in-flow boundary. We mainly study the asymptotic limits as the Knudsen number $\epsilon\rightarrow 0^+$. Using Hilbert expansion, we rigorously justify that the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Lei Wu

We prove existence of weak solutions to 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 2024-08-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Jonas Haselböck

We study the stochastic motion of a droplet in a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation in the sharp interface limit for sufficiently small noise. The key ingredient in the proof is a deterministic slow manifold, where we show its stability for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Alexander Schindler , Dirk Blömker

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is related with a number of interesting physical phenomena like the spinodal decomposition, phase separation and phase ordering dynamics. On the other hand this equation is very stiff an the difficulty to solve it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. L. de Mello , Otton Teixeira da Silveira Filho

The Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility is used in several areas including the modeling of living tissues. We are interested in quantifying the pressure jump at the interface in the case of incompressible flows. To do so, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Charles Elbar , Benoît Perthame , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

We investigate the dynamics of a nonequilibrium interface between coexisting phases in a system described by a Cahn-Hilliard equation with an additional driving term. By means of a matched asymptotic expansion we derive equations for the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Claude A. Laberge , Sven Sandow

The paper presents a model of lateral phase separation in a two component material surface. The resulting fourth order nonlinear PDE can be seen as a Cahn-Hilliard equation posed on a time-dependent surface. Only elementary tangential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Vladimir Yushutin , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

The aim of this work is to characterize the asymptotic behaviour of the first eigenfunction of the generalised p-Laplace operator with mixed (Dirichlet and Neumann) boundary conditions in cylindrical domains when the length of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Rama Rawat , Haripada Roy , Prosenjit Roy

The paper is devoted to a modification of the classical Cahn-Hilliard equation proposed by some physicists. This modification is obtained by adding the second time derivative of the order parameter multiplied by an inertial coefficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Maurizio Grasselli , Giulio Schimperna , Sergey Zelik

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

This paper is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of a thin film equation which describes the evolution of a thin liquid droplet on a solid support driven by capillary forces. We propose an analytic framework to rigorously investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Matias G. Delgadino , Antoine Mellet

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna

This paper tackles the approximation of surface diffusion flow using a Cahn--Hilliard-type model. We introduce and analyze a new second order variational phase field model which associates the classical Cahn--Hilliard energy with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

We propose a two-dimensional flow model of a viscous fluid between two close moving surfaces. We show, using a formal asymptotic expansion of the solution, that its asymptotic behavior, when the distance between the two surfaces tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 José M. Rodríguez , Raquel Taboada-Vázquez

Biomembranes and vesicles consisting of multiple phases can attain a multitude of shapes, undergoing complex shape transitions. We study a Cahn--Hilliard model on an evolving hypersurface coupled to Navier--Stokes equations on the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for phase separation phenomena. Its rigorous derivation from the nonlocal aggregation equation, motivated by the desire to link interacting particle systems and continuous descriptions, has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Charles Elbar , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

Condition imposed on the nonlinear terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation with {R}obin boundary condition is the main focus of this paper. The degenerate parabolic equations, such as the {S}tefan problem, the {H}ele--{S}haw problem, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Taishi Motoda , Takeshi Fukao

In this article, we derive the asymptotic expansion, up to an arbitrary order in theory, for the solution of a two-dimensional elliptic equation with strongly anisotropic diffusion coefficients along different directions, subject to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Ling Lin , Xiang Zhou