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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

We consider a diffuse interface model that describes the macro- and micro-phase separation processes of a polymer mixture. The resulting system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono type equation endowed with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Bohan Ouyang

In this paper we propose an extension of the Cahn method to binary mixtures and study the problem of wetting near a two-phase critical point without any assumption on the form of intermolecular potentials. A comparison between Cahn's method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Henri Gouin , Sergey Gavrilyuk

The mathematical analysis of diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows has attracted significant attention due to their ability to capture complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified, energetically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

The process of phase separation of binary systems is described by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main objective of this article is to give a classification on the dynamic phase transitions for binary systems using either the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang

This paper examines the well-posedness of the Stefan problem with a dynamic boundary condition. To show the existence of the weak solution, the original problem is approximated by a limit of an equation and dynamic boundary condition of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Takeshi Fukao

The stationary Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard equations are considered, governing the motion of a compressible, two-phase fluid mixture with a diffuse interface. The free energy density in this paper has a singular logarithmic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhilei Liang , Sen Liu , Jiangyu Shuai , Dehua Wang

We study a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system modeling the evolution of a compressible binary mixture of viscous fluids undergoing phase separation. The novelty of this work is a free energy potential including the physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Danica Basarić , Andrea Giorgini

We consider the numerical approximations of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions (C. Liu et. al., Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 2019). We propose a first-order in time, linear and energy stable numerical scheme, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Xuelian Bao , Hui Zhang

We consider weak solutions for a diffuse interface model of two non-Newtonian viscous, incompressible fluids of power-law type in the case of different densities in a bounded, sufficiently smooth domain. This leads to a coupled system of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Helmut Abels , Dominic Breit

We consider a class of nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a nonlocal kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary condition. This diffuse interface model describes phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

In this paper, we introduce a model describing the dynamic of vesicle membranes within an incompressible viscous fluid in $3D$ domains. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, with an extra stress tensor depending on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Blanca Climent-Ezquerra , Francisco Guillén-González

The aim of this paper is to prove existence of weak solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic evolution inclusions defined on Lipschitz domains with mixed boundary conditions describing, for instance, damage processes and elasticity with inertia…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Christian Heinemann , Christiane Kraus

This paper deals with time stepping schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with three different types of dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed schemes of first and second order are mass-conservative and energy-dissipative and -- as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. Altmann , C. Zimmer

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

In this paper, we present a novel solution strategy for the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot model, a three-way coupled system that features the interplay of solid phase separation, fluid dynamics, and elastic deformations in porous media. It is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Cedric Riethmüller , Erlend Storvik

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 are concerned with the Cahn-Hilliard/Navier-Stokes equations for the stationary compressible flows in a three-dimensional bounded domain. The governing equations consist of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations describing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Zhilei Liang , Dehua Wang

The Cahn-Hilliard equation has a wide range of applications in many areas of physics and chemistry. To describe the short-range interaction between the solution and the boundary, scientists have constructed dynamical boundary conditions by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Yunzhuo Guo , Cheng Wang , Zhengru Zhang