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In this letter, we derive the sharp-interface limit of the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot equations using formal matched asymptotic expansions. We find that in each sub-domain, the quasi-static Biot equations are obtained with domain-specific material…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Erlend Storvik , Carina Bringedal

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

We consider the Allen-Cahn equation with nonlinear anisotropic diffusion and derive anisotropic direction-dependent curvature flow under the sharp interface limit. The anisotropic curvature flow was already studied, but its derivation is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Tadahisa Funaki , Hyunjoon Park

We propose a new class of phase field models coupled to viscoelasticity with large deformations, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model composed by a phase with elastic properties and a liquid phase. The model is formulated in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

This paper discusses a relation between the re-initialization equation of the level-set functions derived by Wac{\l}awczyk [J.Comp.Phys., 299, (2015)] and the condition for the phase equilibrium provided by the stationary solution to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-13 Tomasz Wacławczyk

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

The Allen-Cahn equation with Flory-Huggins potential is a fundamental and crucial model in phase field simulation for describing phase separation phenomena, which serves as a core tool in diverse branches of natural sciences. The numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Peng Jiang , Shengtong Liang , Tiao Lu

A mathematical model describing the flow of two-phase fluids in a bounded container $\Omega$ is considered under the assumption that the phase transition process is influenced by inertial effects. The model couples a variant of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Gianluca Favre , Giulio Schimperna

This paper presents an efficient and quantitative phase-field model for elastically heterogeneous alloys that ensures the two mechanical compatibilities$\unicode{x2014}$static and kinematic, in conjunction with chemical equilibrium within…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-05 Sourav Chatterjee , Daniel Schwen , Nele Moelans

As popular approximations to sharp-interface models, the Cahn-Hilliard type phase-field models are usually used to simulate interface dynamics with volume conservation. However, the convergence rate of the volume enclosed by the interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Zeyu Zhou , Wei Jiang , Tiezheng Qian , Zhen Zhang

We consider a functional obtained by adding a trace term to the Allen-Cahn phase segregation model and we prove some density estimates for the level sets of the interfaces. We treat in a unified way also the cases of possible degeneracy and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-01 Yannick Sire , Enrico Valdinoci

The phase-field method is reviewed from the general perspective of converting a free boundary problem into a set of coupled partial differential equations. Its main advantage is that it avoids front tracking by using phase fields to locate…

In this work, we study a matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation with a Saint Venant-Kirchhoff potential $F(\mathbf{A})=\frac{1}{4}\|\mathbf{A}\mathbf{A}^\top-\mathbf{I}\|^2$. Our approach employs the modulated energy method together with weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Xingyu Wang

We consider a diffuse interface model describing a ternary system constituted by a conductive diblock copolymer and a homopolymer acting as solvent. The resulting dynamics is modeled by two Cahn--Hilliard--Oono equations for the copolymer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Helmut Abels , Andrea Di Primio , Harald Garcke

In this paper the development of a physically consistent phase-field theory of solidification shrinkage is presented. The coarse-grained hydrodynamic equations are derived directly from the N-body Hamiltonian equations in the framework of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-28 Gyula I. Toth , Wenyue Ma

The phase-field system is a nonlinear model that has significant applications in material sciences. In this paper, we are concerned with the uniqueness of determining the nonlinear energy potential in a phase-field system consisting of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Tianhao Ni , Jun Lai

We consider a variational model for heterogeneous phase separation, based on a diffuse interface energy with moving wells. Our main result identifies the asymptotic behavior of the first variation of the phase field energies as the width of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Likhit Ganedi , Alice Marveggio , Kerrek Stinson

We present new linear energy-stable numerical schemes for numerical simulation of complex polymer-solvent mixtures. The mathematical model proposed by Zhou, Zhang and E (Physical Review E 73, 2006) consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Paul J. Strasser , Giordano Tierra , Burkhard Dünweg , Mária Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

We present a phase-field model for the dynamics of the interface between two inmiscible fluids with arbitrary viscosity contrast in a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. With asymptotic matching techniques we check the model to yield the right…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Folch , J. Casademunt , A. Hernandez-Machado , L. Ramirez-Piscina

The statistical mechanics of equilibrium interfaces has been well-established for over a half century. In the last decade, a wealth of observations have made increasingly clear that a new perspective is required to describe interfaces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-21 Luke Langford , Ahmad K. Omar