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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

In this work, we analytically investigate a degenerating PDE system for phase separation and complete damage processes considered on a nonsmooth time-dependent domain with mixed boundary conditions. The evolution of the system is described…

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Liu , Shuting Gu

The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation provides a natural extension of the classical model for phase separation by incorporating long-range interactions through a singular convolution kernel. While this formulation admits a rich existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Andrea Poiatti , Maurizio Grasselli , Benjamin Goddard , John Pearson

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes the phase separation process in multi-component mixtures. It has been successfully extended to many different contexts in several scientific fields. In this survey article, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang

In this paper we study a model for phase separation and damage in thermoviscoelastic materials. The main novelty of the paper consists in the fact that, in contrast with previous works in the literature (cf., e.g., [C. Heinemann, C. Kraus:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-14 C. Heinemann , C. Kraus , E. Rocca , R. Rossi

In the present work, we investigate a cut finite element method for the parameterized system of second-order equations stemming from the splitting approach of a fourth order nonlinear geometrical PDE, namely the Cahn-Hilliard system. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Efthymios N. Karatzas , Gianluigi Rozza

In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hauke Sass , Arnold Reusken

We propose a novel decoupled unconditionally stable numerical scheme for the simulation of two-phase flow in a Hele-Shaw cell which is governed by the Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw system (CHHS) with variable viscosity. The temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Daozhi Han

In this article we consider the numerical modeling and simulation via the phase field approach of two-phase flows of different densities and viscosities in superposed fluid and porous layers. The model consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Xiaoming He , Ulrich Rüde

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 introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Cedric Riethmüller , Lars von Wolff , Dominik Göddeke , Christian Rohde

We propose in this paper a new multiphase Cahn-Hilliard model with doubly degenerate mobilities. We prove by a formal asymptotic analysis that it approximates with second order accuracy the multiphase surface diffusion flow with mobility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Elie Bretin , Roland Denis , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

We focus on the derivation and analysis of a model for multi-component phase separation occurring on biological membranes, inspired by observations of lipid raft formation. The model integrates local membrane composition with local membrane…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott , Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

We study a diffuse-interface model for thermally driven phase separation in viscous incompressible mixtures. The system couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the order parameter with a Stokes subsystem for the velocity-pressure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Maria Deliyianni , Boris Muha , Andrej Novak

In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Minqiang Xu , Hailong Guo , Qingsong Zou

A proof of optimal-order error estimates is given for the full discretization of the Cahn--Hilliard equation with Cahn--Hilliard-type dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The numerical method combines a linear bulk--surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Nils Bullerjahn , Balázs Kovács