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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…
We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…
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We present a nonvariational setting for the Neumann problem for the Poisson equation for solutions that are H\"{o}lder continuous and that may have infinite Dirichlet integral. We introduce a distributional normal derivative on the boundary…
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In this paper, we consider a class of variational problems with integral functionals involving nonlocal gradients. These models have been recently proposed as refinements of classical hyperelasticity, aiming for an effective framework to…
We present a study on asymptotically compatible Galerkin discretizations for a class of parametrized nonlinear variational problems. The abstract analytical framework is based on variational convergence, or Gamma-convergence. We demonstrate…
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We use a diffuse interface method for solving Poisson's equation with a Dirichlet condition on an embedded curved interface. The resulting diffuse interface problem is identified as a standard Dirichlet problem on approximating regular…
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Consider the unsteady neutron transport equation with diffusive boundary condition in 2D convex domains. We establish the diffusive limit with both initial layer and boundary layer corrections. The major difficulty is the lack of regularity…
Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For $\epsilon>0$ small, we construct non-constant solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations $-\Delta u=\frac{1}{\epsilon^2}(1-|u|^2)u$ in $\Omega$ such that on $\partial \Omega$ u…
We study the long-time behavior of localized solutions to linear or semilinear parabolic equations in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $n \ge 2$, assuming that the diffusion matrix depends on the space variable $x$ and has a finite…
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