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Room temperature ionic liquids are attractive to numerous applications and particularly, to renewable energy devices. As solvent free electrolytes, they demonstrate a paramount connection between the material morphology and Coulombic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Nir Gavish , Arik Yochelis

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

We present extensive results from 2-dimensional simulations of phase separation kinetics in a model with order-parameter dependent mobility. We find that the time-dependent structure factor exhibits dynamical scaling and the scaling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Sanjay Puri , Alan Bray , Joel Lebowitz

In this paper we propose a solution strategy for the Cahn-Larch\'e equations, which is a model for linearized elasticity in a medium with two elastic phases that evolve subject to a Ginzburg-Landau type energy functional. The system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

We consider the identifiability and stable numerical estimation of multiple parameters in a Cahn-Hilliard model for phase separation. Spatially resolved measurements of the phase fraction are assumed to be accessible, with which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

This work addresses the problem of solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation numerically. For that we introduce an abstract formulation for Cahn-Hilliard type equations with dynamic boundary conditions, we conduct the spatial semidiscretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Paula Harder

In this paper, we study a model for phase segregation taking place in a spatial domain that was introduced by Podio-Guidugli in Ric. Mat. 55 (2006), pp. 105-118. The model consists of a strongly coupled system of nonlinear parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky

We present a long-wavelength approximation to the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard equations to describe phase separation in thin films. The equations we derive underscore the coupled behaviour of free-surface variations and phase separation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

The Cahn--Hilliard equations are a versatile model for describing the evolution of complex morphologies. In this paper we present a computational pipeline for the numerical solution of a ternary phase-field model for describing the…

The kinetic separation of repulsive active Brownian particles into a dense and a dilute phase is analyzed using a systematic coarse-graining strategy. We derive an effective Cahn-Hilliard equation on large length and time scales, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-02 Thomas Speck , Julian Bialké , Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

The phase separation between two immiscible liquids advected by a bidimensional velocity field is investigated numerically by solving the corresponding Cahn-Hilliard equation. We study how the spinodal decomposition process depends on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ludovic Berthier , Jean-Louis Barrat , Jorge Kurchan

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of binary mixtures. In recent years, several types of dynamic boundary conditions have been proposed in order to account for possible short-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Chun Liu , Hao Wu

This work presents numerical techniques to enforce continuity constraints on multi-patch surfaces for three distinct problem classes. The first involves structural analysis of thin shells that are described by general Kirchhoff-Love…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Karsten Paul , Christopher Zimmermann , Thang X. Duong , Roger A. Sauer

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

In this paper we devise and analyze a mixed finite element method for a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a non-steady Darcy-Stokes flow that models phase separation and coupled fluid flow in immiscible binary fluids and diblock…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Amanda E. Diegel , Xiaobing H. Feng , Steven M. Wise

We numerically investigate local defectiveness control of self-assembled diblock copolymer patterns through appropriate substrate design. We use a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation for the phase separation dynamics of diblock copolymers.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-13 D. Jeong , Y. Choi , J. Kim

Membrane phase-separation is a mechanism that biological membranes often use to locally concentrate specific lipid species in order to organize diverse membrane processes. Phase separation has also been explored as a tool for the design of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Alexander Zhiliakov , Yifei Wang , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii , Sheereen Majd