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We consider a Cahn-Hilliard equation which is the conserved gradient flow of a nonlocal total free energy functional. This functional is characterized by a Helmholtz free energy density, which can be of logarithmic type. Moreover, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Helmut Abels , Stefano Bosia , Maurizio Grasselli

We study the Cahn-Hilliard equation with non-degenerate concentration-dependent mobility and logarithmic potential in two dimensions. We show that any weak solution is unique, exhibits propagation of uniform-in-time regularity, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Monica Conti , Pietro Galimberti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini

Here we consider a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system characterized by a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with a singular (e.g., logarithmic) potential. This system originates from a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is related with a number of interesting physical phenomena like the spinodal decomposition, phase separation and phase ordering dynamics. On the other hand this equation is very stiff an the difficulty to solve it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. L. de Mello , Otton Teixeira da Silveira Filho

To describe highly heterogeneous systems using the Cahn-Hilliard equation, the standard form of the thermodynamic potential with a constant coefficient in the gradient term and a polynomial of the fourth degree may not be sufficient. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-20 P. O. Mchedlov-Petrosyan , L. N. Davydov , O. A. Osmaev

Existence and uniqueness are investigated for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We prove existence and regularity for the solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard system describing the phenomenon of phase separation for a material contained in a bounded and regular domain. Since the first equation of the system is perturbed by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Michele Colturato

We prove existence of martingale solutions for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and multiplicative Wiener noise. The potential is allowed to be of logarithmic or double-obstacle type. By extending to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Luca Scarpa

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

We study an evolutionary system of Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy type including mass source and transport effects. The system may arise in a number of physical situations related to phase separation phenomena with convection, with the main and most…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Giulio Schimperna

Our aim in this paper is to study the Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions. In particular, we prove, owing to proper approximations of the singular potential and a suitable notion of variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-01 Alain Miranville , Sergey Zelik

We show stabilisation of solutions to the sixth-order convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. {The problem} has the structure of a gradient flow perturbed by a quadratic destabilising term with coefficient $\delta>0$. Through application of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Piotr Rybka , Glen Wheeler

This paper investigates a Cahn-Hilliard-Swift-Hohenberg system, focusing on a three-species chemical mixture subject to physical constraints on volume fractions. The resulting system leads to complex patterns involving a separation into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

The degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation is a standard model to describe living tissues. It takes into account cell populations undergoing short-range attraction and long-range repulsion effects. In this framework, we consider the usual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Benoît Perthame , Alexandre Poulain

We consider local and nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations with constant mobility and singular potentials including, e.g., the Flory-Huggins potential, subject to no-flux (or periodic) boundary conditions. The main goal is to show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Scarpa , Andrea Signori

We consider the classical initial and boundary value problem for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with non-degenerate mobility and singular (e.g., logarithmic) potential. We prove that any weak solution converges to a single equilibrium using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we study the prototypical model of liquid-liquid phase separation, the Cahn-Hilliard functional, in a highly irregular setting. Specifically, we analyze potentials with low regularity vanishing on space-dependent wells. Under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Riccardo Cristoferi , Jakob Deutsch , Luca Pignatelli

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna

In this work, we deal with the stochastic counterpart of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with regular potential in a smooth bounded one-, two- or three-dimensional domain. The problem is endowed with homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Andrea Di Primio , Christoph Hurm