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We present a technique to perform interface-resolved simulations of complex breakup dynamics in two-phase flows using the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. The method dynamically decreases the interface thickness parameter in relevant…

We study the connection between a system of many independent Brownian particles on one hand and the deterministic diffusion equation on the other. For a fixed time step $h>0$, a large-deviations rate functional $J_h$ characterizes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Stefan Adams , Nicolas Dirr , Mark Peletier , Johannes Zimmer

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 presents a study of solution strategies for the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot equations, a complex mathematical model for understanding flow in deformable porous media with changing solid phases. Solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot system poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Erlend Storvik , Cedric Riethmüller , Jakub Wiktor Both , Florin Adrian Radu

Accelerated gradient descent iterations are widely used in optimization. It is known that, in the continuous-time limit, these iterations converge to a second-order differential equation which we refer to as the accelerated gradient flow.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Farazmand

The Cahn-Hilliard and Ginzburg-Landau (Allen-Cahn) equations are derived from the second law. The intuitive approach by separation of full divergences is supported by a more rigorous method, based on Liu procedure and a constitutive entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-08 Peter Ván

We deal with a system of two coupled differential equations, describing the evolution of a first order phase transition. In particular, we have two non-linear parabolic equations: the first one is deduced from a balance law for entropy and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Manuela Girotti

We introduce and implement a method to compute stationary states of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations on metric graphs. Stationary states are obtained as local minimizers of the nonlinear Schr\''odinger energy at fixed mass. Our method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Christophe Besse , Romain Duboscq , Stefan Le Coz

In this paper, a non-uniform time-stepping convex-splitting numerical algorithm for solving the widely used time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation is introduced. The proposed numerical scheme employs the $L1^+$ formula for discretizing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Jun Zhang , Jia Zhao , JinRong Wang

We investigate the mass-preserving $L^2$-gradient flow associated with a generalized Cahn--Hilliard equation. Our focus is on the sharp interface regime, where the interface width parameter $\varepsilon > 0$ is small. For well-prepared…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Yuan Chen

Dissipative backflow is studied in the context of open quantum systems. This theoretical analysis is carried out within two frameworks, the effective time-dependent Hamiltonian due to Caldirola-Kanai (CK) and the Caldeira-Leggett (CL) one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

We investigate the relaxational dynamics of the order parameter of chiral symmetry breaking, the sigma mean-field, with a heat bath consisting of quarks and antiquarks. A semiclassical stochastic Langevin equation of motion is obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Marlene Nahrgang , Stefan Leupold , Marcus Bleicher

Gradient-flow sampling interprets a Gibbs distribution as the minimizer of an energy functional over probability measures and generates dynamics converging to this target. Under spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich (SHK) geometry, the flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Aratrika Mustafi , Soumya Mukherjee

We re-derive the equations of motion of dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics from kinetic theory. In contrast to the derivation of Israel and Stewart, which considered the second moment of the Boltzmann equation to obtain equations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 G. S. Denicol , T. Koide , D. H. Rischke

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

The quantum dissipative dynamics of a tunneling process through double barrier structures is investigated on the basis of a rigorous treatment for the first time. We employ a Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian with an effective potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 Atsunori Sakurai , Yoshitaka Tanimura

A set of quantum hydrodynamic equations are derived from the moments of the electrostatic mean-field Wigner kinetic equation. No assumptions are made on the particular local equilibrium or on the statistical ensemble wave functions. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Haas , M. Marklund , G. Brodin , J. Zamanian

Wasserstein gradient flows provide a powerful means of understanding and solving many diffusion equations. Specifically, Fokker-Planck equations, which model the diffusion of probability measures, can be understood as gradient descent over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin , Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon , Evgeny Burnaev

We explore recent progress and open questions concerning local minima and saddle points of the Cahn--Hilliard energy in $d\geq 2$ and the critical parameter regime of large system size and mean value close to $-1$. We employ the String…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Tobias Grafke , Sebastian Scholtes , Alfred Wagner , Maria G. Westdickenberg

Constrained gradient flows are studied in fracture mechanics to describe strongly irreversible (or unidirectional) evolution of cracks. The present paper is devoted to a study on the long-time behavior of non-compact orbits of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Goro Akagi , Christian Kuehn , Ken-Ichi Nakamura