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We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

The dynamics of an interface between the normal and superconducting phases under nonstationary external conditions is studied within the framework of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity, modified to include…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Alan T. Dorsey

We present a full classification of the short-time behaviour of the interfaces and local solutions to the nonlinear parabolic $p$-Laplacian type reaction-diffusion equation of non-Newtonian elastic filtration \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Roqia Jeli

We study globally bounded entire minimizers $u:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^m$ of Allen-Cahn systems for potentials $W\geq 0$ with $\{W=0\}=\{a_1,...,a_N\}$ and $W(u)\sim |u-a_i|^\alpha$ near $u=a_i$, $0<\alpha<2$. Such solutions are,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Nicholas D. Alikakos , Zhiyuan Geng , Arghir Zarnescu

We establish metastability of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation for initial data that is order-one in energy and order-one in $\dot{H}^{-1}$ away from a point on the so-called slow manifold with $N$ well-separated layers.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Sebastian Scholtes , Maria G. Westdickenberg

We consider a mass conserved Allen-Cahn equation $u_t=\Delta u+ \e^{-2} (f(u)-\e\lambda(t))$ in a bounded domain with no flux boundary condition, where $\e\lambda(t)$ is the average of $f(u(\cdot,t))$ and $-f$ is the derivative of a double…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Xinfu Chen , Danielle Hilhorst , Elisabeth Logak

In this paper, we derive a thermodynamically consistent non-isothermal diffuse interface model for phase transition and interface evolution involving heat transfer. This model is constructed by integrating concepts from classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Chun Liu , Jan-Eric Sulzbach , Yiwei Wang

We consider the sharp interface limit of the Allen-Cahn equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary condition in a two-dimensional domain $\Omega$, in the situation where an interface has developed and intersects $\partial\Omega$. Here a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

We show convergence of solutions of a convective Allen-Cahn equation for a given smooth and divergence free velocity field to a transport equation for an evolving interface in the case when the thickness of the diffuse interface tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Helmut Abels

We consider the initial-boundary value problem of a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model for incompressible two-phase flows with unmatched densities in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. Our first aim is to study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Harald Garcke , Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

This paper presents a full classification of the short-time behavior of the interfaces in the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear second order degenerate parabolic PDE \[ u_t-\Delta u^m +b u^\beta=0, \ x\in \mathbb{R}^N, 0<t<T \] with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Ugur G. Abdulla , Amna Abu Weden

In this paper, we study a diffuse interface model for two-phase immiscible flows coupled by Navier-Stokes equations and mass-conserving Allen-Cahn equations. The contact line (the intersection of the fluid-fluid interface with the solid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yinghua Li , Yuanxiang Yan , Xijun Yin

The explicit form of the interface equation of motion derived assuming a minimal surface is extended to general bicontinuous interfaces that appear in the diffusion limited stage of the phase separation process of binary mixtures. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroyuki Tomita

We consider an Allen-Cahn equation with nonlinear diffusion, motivated by the study of the scaling limit of certain interacting particle systems. We investigate its singular limit and show the generation and propagation of an interface in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Perla El Kettani , Tadahisa Funaki , Danielle Hilhorst , Hyunjoon Park , Sunder Sethuraman

The aim of this paper is to study the metastable properties of the solutions to a hyperbolic relaxation of the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension, subject to either Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions. To perform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

We consider the inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn equation $$ \epsilon^2\Delta u\,+\,V(y)(1-u^2)\,u\,=\,0\quad \mbox{in}\ \Omega, \qquad \frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}\,=\,0\quad \mbox{on}\ \partial \Omega, $$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Lipeng Duan , Suting Wei , Jun Yang

In this paper we obtain rigidity results for a bounded non-constant entire solution $u$ of the Allen-Cahn equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$, whose level set $\{u=0\}$ is contained in a half-space. If $n\leq 3$ we prove that the solution must be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Francois Hamel , Yong Liu , Pieralberto Sicbaldi , Kelei Wang , Juncheng Wei

We study the dynamics of the one-dimensional $\varepsilon$-dependent Cahn-Hilliard / Allen-Cahn equation within a neighborhood of an equilibrium of $N$ transition layers, that in general does not conserve mass. Two different settings are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Dimitra Antonopoulou , Georgia Karali , Konstantinos Tzirakis

The formation of codimension-one interfaces for multi-well gradient-driven problems is well-known and established in the scalar case, where the equation is often referred to as the Allen-Cahn equation. The proofs rely for a large on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Fabrice Bethuel

We investigate the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface system that couples the Allen--Cahn equation with the instationary Navier--Stokes system in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \in \{2,3\}$. This model is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sebastian Hensel , Yuning Liu