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Fourth-order semilinear parabolic equations of the Cahn--Hilliard-type (01) u_t + \D^2 u = \g u \pm \D (|u|^{p-1}u) in \Omega \times \re_+, are considered in a smooth bounded domain $\O \subset \ren$ with Navier-type boundary conditions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Pablo Alvarez-Caudevilla , Victor A. Galaktionov

Degenerate Cahn-Hilliard phase-field models provide a robust approximation of surface-diffusion-driven interface motion without explicit front tracking. In computations, however, the geometric volume enclosed by the interface -- the region…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Josef Musil

We establish Schauder-type estimates for linear parabolic systems driven by variable-coefficient nonlocal pseudo-differential operators of order $s>0$. These estimates are formulated in critical time-weighted H\"older/Besov-type spaces and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Ke Chen , Ruilin Hu , Quoc-Hung Nguyen

This paper develops and analyzes some fully discrete mixed finite element methods for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with gradient-type multiplicative noise that is white in time and correlated in space. The stochastic Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

This work uses a linear relaxation method to develop efficient numerical schemes for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations. The L1+-CN formula is used to discretize the fractional derivative, and an auxiliary variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Hui Yu , Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

We consider the existence of suitable weak solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a non-constant (degenerate) mobility on a class of evolving surfaces. We also show weak-strong uniqueness for the case of a positive mobility function,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

We study an initial-boundary value problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system with non-constant density proposed by Abels, Garcke and Gr\"{u}n in 2012. This model arises in the diffuse interface theory for binary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Giorgini

We prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard system with nonlinear viscosity terms and nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions. The problem is highly nonlinear, characterized by four nonlinearities and two separate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Luca Scarpa

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli

We study the effect of a higher-order nonlinearity in the standard Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation: \partial_x \tilde G(H_x). We find that the stability of steady states depends on dv/dq, the derivative of the interface velocity on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Paolo Politi , Chaouqi Misbah

We introduce a set of statistical measures that can be used to quantify non-equilibrium surface growth. They are used to deduce new information about spatiotemporal dynamics of model systems for spinodal decomposition and surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Girish Nathan , Gemunu Gunaratne

In this paper we introduce a randomized version of the backward Euler method, that is applicable to stiff ordinary differential equations and nonlinear evolution equations with time-irregular coefficients. In the finite-dimensional case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Monika Eisenmann , Mihály Kovács , Raphael Kruse , Stig Larsson

This paper investigates the non-linear dynamics of horizontal shear instability in an incompressible, stratified and rotating fluid in the non-traditional $f$-plane, i.e. with the full Coriolis acceleration, using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Camille Moisset , Paul Billant , Junho Park , Stéphane Mathis

Oscillatory behavior is ubiquitous in out-of-equilibrium systems showing spatio-temporal pattern formation. Starting from a linear large-scale oscillatory instability -- a conserved-Hopf instability -- that naturally occurs in many active…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-27 Tobias Frohoff-Hülsmann , Uwe Thiele

In this paper we focus on the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions, by adding two hyperbolic relaxation terms to the system. We verify that the energy of the total system is decreasing with time. By adding two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Minghui Yu , Rui Chen

A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

The isentropic compressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations is a system of fourth-order partial differential equations that model the evolution of some binary fluids under convection. The purpose of this paper is the design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Pep Mulet

A Cahn-Hilliard-type theory for hydrodynamic fluctuations is proposed that gives a quantitative description of the slowly evolving spatial correlations and structures in density and flow fields in the early stages of evolution of freely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst

In this paper we consider nonlinear parabolic systems with elliptic part which can be also degenerate. We prove optimal error estimates for smooth enough solutions. The main novelty, with respect to previous results, is that we obtain the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Luigi C. Berselli , Michael Růžička

We propose and analyse new stabilized time marching schemes for Phase Fields model such as Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hillard equations, when discretized in space with high order finite differences compact schemes. The stabilization applies to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Matthieu Brachet , Jean-Paul Chehab