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We describe a functional framework suitable to the analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface whose evolution is assumed to be given \textit{a priori}. The model is derived from balance laws for an order parameter with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott

In this paper, we study the sharp interface limit for solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with disparate mobilities. This means that the mobility function degenerates in one of the two energetically favorable configurations, suppressing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Milan Kroemer , Tim Laux

We discuss two doubly degenerate Cahn-Hilliard (DDCH) models for isotropic surface diffusion. Degeneracy is introduced in both the mobility function and a restriction function associated to the chemical potential. Our computational results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt , Steven M. Wise

Short time existence for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization is proved in the context of epitaxially strained three-dimensional films. This is achieved by implementing a minimizing movement scheme, which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Irene Fonseca , Nicola Fusco , Giovanni Leoni , Massimiliano Morini

We consider a diffusion process on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ an energetic variational approach with both surface divergence and transport theorems to derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Hajime Koba

The diffuse interface model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals is often used to study various aspects of multi-phase flows such as droplets coalescence and contact line dynamics. The original model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals uses an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-29 Lionel Hirschberg , Avraham Hirschberg

We consider the surface diffusion and Willmore flows acting on a general class of (possibly non-compact) hypersurfaces parameterized over a uniformly regular reference manifold possessing a tubular neighborhood with uniform radius. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Jeremy LeCrone , Yuanzhen Shao , Gieri Simonett

Wetting flows are controlled by the contact line motion. We derive an equation that describes the slow time evolution of the triple solid-liquid-fluid contact line for an arbitrary distribution of defects on a solid surface. The capillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-26 Vadim Nikolayev , D. Beysens

We establish short-time existence of a smooth solution to the surface diffusion equation with an elastic term and without an additional curvature regularization in three space dimensions. We also prove the asymptotic stability of strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Nicola Fusco , Vesa Julin , Massimiliano Morini

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

We consider a multiphase surface $\mathcal{C}_0$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ consisting of a finite number of surfaces passing through the origin , where all 1-dimensional junctions are regular triple junctions in which three planes meet at the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Wei-Hung Liao

Diffusion-mediated surface phenomena are crucial for human life and industry, with examples ranging from oxygen capture by lung alveolar surface to heterogeneous catalysis, gene regulation, membrane permeation and filtration processes.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-19 Denis S. Grebenkov

We study a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of the flow of a binary fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy (CHD) type system with transport and mass source. A relevant physical application is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Giorgini , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We consider a diffuse-interface model for two-phase incompressible viscous flows with a soluble surfactant in a bounded porous medium. This hydrodynamic system consists of a Darcy--Forchheimer equation for the seepage velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Maurizio Grasselli , Bohan Ouyang , Andrea Poiatti , Hao Wu

We analyze the effect of nonlinear boundary conditions on an advection-diffusion equation on the half-line. Our model is inspired by models for crystal growth where diffusion models diffusive relaxation of a displacement field, advection is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Antoine Pauthier , Arnd Scheel

We introduce a description of a minimal surface in a space with boundary, as the world-hypersurface that the entangling surface traces. It does so by evolving from the boundary to the interior of the bulk under an appropriate geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Dimitrios Katsinis , Ioannis Mitsoulas , Georgios Pastras

We study minimal area world sheets ending on two concentric circumferences on the boundary of Euclidean $AdS_{3}$ with mixed R-R and NS-NS three-form fluxes. We solve the problem by reducing the system to a one-dimensional integrable model.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 Rafael Hernandez , Juan Miguel Nieto , Roberto Ruiz

In many interfacial flow systems, variations of surface properties lead to novel and interesting behaviors. In this work a three-dimensional model of flow dynamics for multicomponent vesicles is presented. The surface composition is modeled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Prerna Gera , David Salac

A solution is developed for a convection-diffusion equation describing chemical transport with sorption, decay, and production. The problem is formulated in a finite domain where the appropriate conservation law yields Robin conditions at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. J. Golz , J. R. Dorroh

We study a diffuse interface model describing the motion of two viscous fluids driven by the surface tension in a Hele-Shaw cell. The full system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with the Darcy's law. We address the physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Andrea Giorgini