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The Vafa-Witten equations (with or without a mass term) constitute a non-linear, first order system of differential equations on a given oriented, compact, Riemannian 4-manifold. Because these are the variational equations of a functional,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Clifford Henry Taubes

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

We present a hybrid method combining a minimizing movement scheme with neural operators for the simulation of phase field-based Willmore flow. The minimizing movement component is based on a standard optimization problem on a regular grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Martin Rumpf , Josua Sassen , Christoph Smoch

The Willmore flow is well known problem from the differential geometry. It minimizes the Willmore functional defined as integral of the mean-curvature square over given manifold. For the graph formulation, we derive modification of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Tomas Oberhuber

We define rigorously a solution to the fourth-order total variation flow equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$. If $n\geq3$, it can be understood as a gradient flow of the total variation energy in $D^{-1}$, the dual space of $D^1_0$, which is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Yoshikazu Giga , Hirotoshi Kuroda , Michał Łasica

In this work, we consider an advection-diffusion equation, coupled to a Poisson equation for the velocity field. This type of coupling is typically encountered in models arising from plasma physics or porous media flow. The aim of this work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Hanz Martin Cheng , Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp

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

In this paper, a regularity result for the Willmore flow is presented. It is established by means of a truncated translation technique in conjunction with the Implicit Function Theorem.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Yuanzhen Shao

We study the Willmore flow for graphs over a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with Dirichlet (clamped) boundary conditions, a still little-studied setting that also serves as a prototype for higher-order flows with fixed boundary data. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Boris Gulyak

We consider single-phase flow with solute transport where ions in the fluid can precipitate and form a mineral, and where the mineral can dissolve and release solute into the fluid. Such a setting includes an evolving interface between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Carina Bringedal , Alexander Jaust

We propose a unified method for the large space-time scaling limit of \emph{linear} collisional kinetic equations in the whole space. The limit is of \emph{fractional} diffusion type for heavy tail equilibria with slow enough decay, and of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Emeric Bouin , Clément Mouhot

In this paper, we mainly discuss the convergence behavior of diffuse domain method (DDM) for solving semilinear parabolic equations with Neumann boundary condition defined in general irregular domains. We use a phasefield function to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Yuejin Xu

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

In the present article we study diffuse interface models for two-phase biomembranes. We will do so by starting off with a diffuse interface model on $\mathbb{R}^n$ defined by two coupled phase fields $u,v$. The first phase field $u$ is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Benjamin Lledos , Roberta Marziani , Heiner Olbermann

This paper is concerned with a diffusion model of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, interpreted as balances of microforces and microenergy, for two unknowns: the problem's order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

Many physical systems of interest involve the close interaction of a flow in a domain with complex, time-varying boundaries. Treatment of boundaries of this nature is cumbersome due to the difficulty in explicitly tracking boundaries that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Emma M. Boyd , Eric Sandall , Maycon Meier , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

Over the last few decades, phase-field equations have found increasing applicability in a wide range of mathematical-scientific fields (e.g. geometric PDEs and mean curvature flow, materials science for the study of phase transitions) but…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-28 M. Schmuck , S. Kalliadasis

With the aim of efficiently simulating three-dimensional multiphase turbulent flows with a phase-field method, we propose a new discretization scheme for the biharmonic term (the 4th-order derivative term) of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Ran Liu , Chong Shen Ng , Kai Leong Chong , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

We apply a phase field approach for a general shape optimization problem of a stationary Navier-Stokes flow. To be precise we add a multiple of the Ginzburg--Landau energy as a regularization to the objective functional and relax the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht

In undergraduate classes, the potential flow that goes around a circular cylinder is designed for complemental understanding of mathematical technique to handle the Laplace equation with Neumann boundary conditions and the physical concept…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-30 Eunice J. Kim , Ildoo Kim