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In this paper, the existence of weak solutions of a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility is studied. We first define a notion of weak solutions and establish a regularized problems. The existence of such solutions is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Xiaopeng Zhao

A description of the short time behavior of solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation with a smoothened additive noise is presented. The key result is that in the sharp interface limit solutions move according to motion by mean curvature with an…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Hendrik Weber

We prove the stability of the one dimensional kink solution of the Cahn-Hilliard equation under d-dimensional perturbations for d > 2. We also establish a novel scaling behavior of the large time asymptotics of the solution. The leading…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timo Korvola , Antti Kupiainen , Jari Taskinen

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

We consider a Cahn-Hilliard equation which is the conserved gradient flow of a nonlocal total free energy functional. This functional is characterized by a Helmholtz free energy density, which can be of logarithmic type. Moreover, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Helmut Abels , Stefano Bosia , Maurizio Grasselli

The 3D compressible and incompressible Euler equations with a physical vacuum free boundary condition and affine initial conditions reduce to a globally solvable Hamiltonian system of ordinary differential equations for the deformation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Thomas C. Sideris

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation on a manifold with conical singularities and show the existence of bounded imaginary powers for suitable closed extensions of the bilaplacian. Combining results and methods from singular analysis with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Nikolaos Roidos , Elmar Schrohe

We rigorously prove the convergence of weak solutions to a model for lipid raft formation in cell membranes which was recently proposed by Garcke et al. to weak (varifold) solutions of the corresponding sharp-interface problem for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Helmut Abels , Johannes Kampmann

We study a recently proposed nonlinear evolution equation describing the collective step meander on a vicinal surface subject to the Bales-Zangwill growth instability [O. Pierre-Louis et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. (80), 4221 (1998)]. A careful…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kallunki , J. Krug

A system of partial differential equations for a diffusion interface model is considered for the stationary motion of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous Newtonian fluids in a three-dimensional bounded domain. The governing equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Zhilei Liang , Dehua Wang

In this paper, a phase-field model is introduced to describe the evolution of a deformable, self-propelled object driven by surface-tension effects. The model couples an Allen-Cahn-type equation, which distinguishes the body from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Masaharu Nagayama , Koya Sakakibara , Keisuke Takasao

We prove the existence of unique weak solutions to an extension of a Cahn--Hilliard model proposed recently by C.~Liu and H.~Wu (2019), in which the new dynamic boundary condition is further generalised with an affine linear relation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Patrik Knopf , Kei Fong Lam

A new type of boundary dynamics is proposed to describe the interface that sweeps space to collect distributed material. Based upon geometrical consideration on a simple physical process representing a certain experiment, the dynamics is…

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We investigate expansive solutions of the $N$-body problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\ge2$) driven by homogeneous Newtonian potentials of degree $-\alpha$. We establish the existence of half-entire expansive motions with prescribed initial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Diego Berti , Davide Polimeni , Susanna Terracini

We establish metastability of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation for initial data that is order-one in energy and order-one in $\dot{H}^{-1}$ away from a point on the so-called slow manifold with $N$ well-separated layers.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Sebastian Scholtes , Maria G. Westdickenberg

We derive the asymptotic expansion at infinity for embedded ends of uniformly elliptic Weingarten surfaces with finite total curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and we establish a maximum principle at infinity. Furthermore, we solve the Dirichlet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Aires E. M. Barbieri , José A. Gálvez , Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

The diffusion driven by the gradient of the chemical potential (by the Fick/Darcy law) in deforming continua at large strains is formulated in the reference configuration with both the Fick/Darcy law and the capillarity gradient term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tomáš Roubíček

We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

We consider a system of two coupled parabolic PDEs introduced in [1] to model motility of eukaryotic cells. We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions in the limit of a small parameter related to the width of the interface in phase field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Leonid Berlyand , Mykhailo Potomkin , Volodymyr Rybalko

We established and estimate the full asymptotic expansion in integer powers of 1 N of the [ $\sqrt$ N ] first marginals of N-body evolutions lying in a general paradigm containing Kac models and non-relativistic quantum evolution. We prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Thierry Paul , Mario Pulvirenti