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We consider a diffuse interface model that describes the macro- and micro-phase separation processes of a polymer mixture. The resulting system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono type equation endowed with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Bohan Ouyang

We consider a non-reciprocically coupled two-field Cahn-Hilliard system that has been shown to allow for oscillatory behaviour, a suppression of coarsening as well as the existence of localised states. Here, after introducing the model we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-11 Tobias Frohoff-Hülsmann , Uwe Thiele , Len M. Pismen

Discrete Ginzburg-Landau (DGL) equations with non-local nonlinearities have been established as significant inherently discrete models in numerous physical contexts, similar to their counterparts with local nonlinear terms. We study two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios

We study a Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw (or Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy) system for an incompressible mixture of two fluids. The relative concentration difference $\varphi$ is governed by a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Cecilia Cavaterra , Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

When canonical Hamiltonians of local quantum field theories are transformed using a renormalization group procedure for effective particles, the resulting interaction terms are non-local. The range of their non-locality depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Stanislaw D. Glazek

Based on the development in dealing with nonlocal boundary conditions, we propose a seamless local-nonlocal coupling diffusion model in this paper. In our model, a finite constant interaction horizon is equipped in the nonlocal part and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Yanzun Meng , Zuoqiang Shi

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

We study a nonlocal variant of a thermodynamically consistent phase field model for binary mixtures of micropolar fluids, i.e., fluids exhibiting internal rotations. The model is described by a Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard system that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Kin Shing Chan , Kei Fong Lam

The Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system is based on a well-known diffuse interface model and describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary fluids. A nonlocal variant consists of the Navier-Stokes equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

We provide a novel sharp-interface analysis via Gamma-convergence for a non-local and non-homogeneous diffuse-interface model for phase transitions, featuring an interplay between a non-local interaction kernel and a spatially dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Elisa Davoli , Emanuele Tasso

This survey offers an overview of recent advances in nonlocal phase transition problems, modeled by Ginzburg--Landau type energies of the form \[ \frac{1}{4}\iint_{\R^{2n}\setminus (\R^n \setminus \Omega)^2}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Francesco De Pas , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

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

In our first paper, we showed how a non-local effective Hamiltionian for short-ranged wetting may be derived from an underlying Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson model. Here, we combine the Green's function method with standard perturbation theory to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. O. Parry , C. Rascon , N. R. Bernardino , J. M. Romero-Enrique

We investigate the long-time behavior of a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a kinetic rate-dependent nonlocal dynamic boundary condition. The kinetic rate $1/L$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

A different formulation of the effective interaction hyperspherical harmonics (EIHH) method, suitable for non-local potentials, is presented. The EIHH method for local interactions is first shortly reviewed to point out the problems of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 G. Orlandini , N. Barnea , W. Leidemann

Over the past decades, nonlocal models have been widely used to describe aggregation phenomena in biology, physics, engineering, and the social sciences. These are often derived as mean-field limits of attraction-repulsion agent-based…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Carles Falcó , Ruth E. Baker , José A. Carrillo

We investigate the extended Hubbard model as an approximation to the local and spatial entanglement of a one-dimensional chain of nanostructures where the particles interact via a long range interaction represented by a `soft' Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-03 J. P. Coe , V. V. França , I. D'Amico

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations with degenerate potential is shown. The nonlocality is described by means of a symmetric singular kernel not falling within the framework of any previous existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Elisa Davoli , Helene Ranetbauer , Luca Scarpa , Lara Trussardi

We extend the doubly degenerate Cahn-Hilliard (DDCH) models for isotropic surface diffusion, which yield more accurate approximations than classical degenerate Cahn-Hilliard (DCH) models, to the anisotropic case. We consider both weak and…

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

Electroweak symmetry breaking may arise from emergent nonlocal K\"{a}ll\`{e}n-Lehmann spectral densities in Hamiltonians with multiscalar interactions. The nonlocality scale $\Lambda_{NL}$ emerges naturally from the exponentially increasing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Stathes Paganis