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In this paper, we present an efficient energy stable scheme to solve a phase field model incorporating contact line condition. Instead of the usually used Cahn-Hilliard type phase equation, we adopt the Allen-Cahn type phase field model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Rui Chen , Xiaofeng Yang , Hui Zhang

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

This work deals with numerical simulation of water freezing and thawing in a complex three-dimensional geometry of a porous medium. The porous structure is represented by a virtual container filled with glass beads. Phase transition…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Pavel Strachota

We study numerically the one-dimensional Allen-Cahn equation with the spectral fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ on intervals with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. In particular, we are interested in the speed of sharp…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn , Jens Markus Melenk , Alexander Rieder

We find analytical solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the dynamics of an interface in a system with a conserved order parameter (Model B). We show that, although steady-state solutions of Model B are unphysical in the far-field,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. L. Evans , M. E. Cates

Phase field models frequently provide insight to phase transitions, and are robust numerical tools to solve free boundary problems corresponding to the motion of interfaces. A body of prior literature suggests that interface motion via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 Alpha A Lee , Andreas Münch , Endre Süli

In this paper, we consider the sharp interface limit of a matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation, which takes the form: $$\partial_t A=\Delta A-\varepsilon^{-2}( A A^{\mathrm{T}}A-…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Mingwen Fei , Fanghua Lin , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel interface-driven adaptive variational procedure using a fully Eulerian description of fluid-structure interaction. The proposed fully-Eulerian procedure involves a fixed background unstructured mesh on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Biswajeet Rath , Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev K. Jaiman

In this paper, we propose a variational Lagrangian scheme for a modified phase-field model, which can compute the equilibrium states for the original Allen-Cahn type model. Our discretization is based on a prescribed energy-dissipation law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang

In this work we develop a stochastic algorithm to integrate the Cahn-Hilliard equations. The algorithm is based on Gillespie's stochastic simulation algorithm, also known as kinetic Monte Carlo. The deterministic integration of the phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-14 Qianran Yu , Nicholas Julian , Jaime Marian , Enrique Martinez

Having a finite interfacial thickness, the phase-field models supply a way to model the fluid interfaces, which allows the calculations of the interface movements and deformations on the fixed grids. Such modeling is applied to the…

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

We present a continuum theory to describe elastically induced phase transitions between coherent solid phases. In the limit of vanishing elastic constants in one of the phases, the model can be used to describe fracture on the basis of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Spatschek , C. Mueller-Gugenberger , E. Brener , B. Nestler

A diffuse interface (phase field) model for an electrochemical system is developed. We describe the minimal set of components needed to model an electrochemical interface and present a variational derivation of the governing equations. With…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Guyer , W. J. Boettinger , J. A. Warren , G. B. McFadden

A common paradigm in phase-field models with singular potentials is that global-in-time weak solutions converge to a single equilibrium only after undergoing asymptotic regularization. However, in arXiv:2510.17296 we introduced a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

We consider the initial value problem for the generalized Allen-Cahn equation, \[\partial_t \Phi = \Delta \Phi-\varepsilon^{-2} \Phi (\Phi^t \Phi - I), \qquad x \in \Omega, \ t\geq 0,\] where $\Phi$ is an $n\times n$ real matrix-valued…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Dong Wang , Braxton Osting , Xiao-Ping Wang

We consider phase-field models with and without lateral flow for the numerical simulation of lateral phase separation and coarsening in lipid membranes. For the numerical solution of these models, we apply an unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Maxim Olshanskii , Yerbol Palzhanov , Annalisa Quaini

In this paper, a phase-field based model under the framework of discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) for incompressible multiphase fluid flows is proposed. Two kinetic models are constructed to solve the conservative Allen-Cahn (A-C)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Zeren Yang , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

We study the numerical solution of a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn system with strong coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices. A fully discrete approximation scheme in space and time is proposed which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

We study in this paper the accuracy and stability of partially and fully implicit schemes for phase field modeling. Through theoretical and numerical analysis of Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hillard models, we investigate the potential problems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Jinchao Xu , Yukun Li , Shuonan Wu , Arthur Bousquet

In the literature, two quite different phase-field formulations for the problem of alloy solidification can be found. In the first, the material in the diffuse interfaces is assumed to be in an intermediate state between solid and liquid,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-23 Mathis Plapp