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A relaxed notion of displacement convexity is defined and used to establish short time existence and uniqueness of Wasserstein gradient flows for higher order energy functionals. As an application, local and global well-posedness of…

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Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

We perform a convergence analysis of a discrete-in-time minimization scheme approximating a finite dimensional singularly perturbed gradient flow. We allow for different scalings between the viscosity parameter $\varepsilon$ and the time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Giovanni Scilla , Francesco Solombrino

The Phase-Field Method (PFM) is employed to simulate two-phase flows with the fully-coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations governing the temporal evolution. The methodology minimizes the total energy functional, accounting for…

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with different densities in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

We study the long time behavior of the Wasserstein gradient flow for an energy functional consisting of two components: particles are attracted to a fixed profile $\omega$ by means of an interaction kernel $\psi_a(z)=|z|^{q_a}$,and they…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Marco Di Francesco , Massimo Fornasier , Jan-Christian Hütter , Daniel Matthes

The sliced-Wasserstein flow is an evolution equation where a probability density evolves in time, advected by a velocity field computed as the average among directions in the unit sphere of the optimal transport displacements from its 1D…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Giacomo Cozzi , Filippo Santambogio

In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Riccarda Rossi

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

We introduce in this paper two time discretization schemes tailored for a range of Wasserstein gradient flows. These schemes are designed to preserve mass, positivity and to be uniquely solvable. In addition, they also ensure energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Shiheng Zhang , Jie Shen

In this paper we provide a variational characterisation for a class of non-linear evolution equations with constant non-negative Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded domain as gradient flows in the space of non-negative measures. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Matthias Erbar , Giulia Meglioli

The blooming diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have garnered significant interest due to their impressive performance and the elegant inspiration they draw from physics. While earlier DPMs relied upon the Markovian assumption, recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Bowen Sun , Shibao Zheng

This paper is devoted to existence and uniqueness results for classes of nonlinear diffusion equations (or systems) which may be viewed as regular perturbations of Wasserstein gradient flows. First, in the case. where the drift is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Guillaume Carlier , Maxime Laborde

We study a system of drift-diffusion PDEs for a potentially infinite number of incompressible phases, subject to a joint pointwise volume constraint. Our analysis is based on the interpretation as a collection of coupled Wasserstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Clément Cancès , Daniel Matthes , Ismael Medina , Bernhard Schmitzer

In this paper we present some basic uniqueness results for evolutive equations under density constraints. First, we develop a rigorous proof of a well-known result (among specialists) in the case where the spontaneous velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Simone Di Marino , Alpár Richárd Mészáros

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we study a new model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

Over the past fifteen years, the theory of Wasserstein gradient flows of convex (or, more generally, semiconvex) energies has led to advances in several areas of partial differential equations and analysis. In this work, we extend the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Katy Craig

We study a one dimensional model for two-phase flows in heterogeneous media, in which the capillary pressure functions can be discontinuous with respect to space. We first give a model, leading to a system of degenerated non-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Clément Cancès

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