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The paper is devoted to a modification of the classical Cahn-Hilliard equation proposed by some physicists. This modification is obtained by adding the second time derivative of the order parameter multiplied by an inertial coefficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Maurizio Grasselli , Giulio Schimperna , Sergey Zelik

The evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immiscible fluids in a bounded domain is governed by Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations (CHNS System). In this work, we study the well-posedness results for the CHNS system with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Manika Bag , Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti

We prove structural stability under perturbations for a class of discrete-time dynamical systems near a non-hyperbolic fixed point. We reformulate the stability problem in terms of the well-posedness of an infinite-dimensional nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Roland Bauerschmidt , David C. Brydges , Gordon Slade

We consider abstract evolution equations with a nonlinear term depending on the state and on delayed states. We show that, if the $C_0$-semigroup describing the linear part of the model is exponentially stable, then the whole system retains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Serge Nicaise , Cristina Pignotti

We show stabilisation of solutions to one-dimensional advective Cahn-Hilliard equation modeling the Langmuir-Blodgett thin films. This problem has the structure of a gradient flow perturbed by a linear term $\beta u_x$. Through application…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Marco Morandotti , Piotr Rybka , Glen Wheeler

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

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

We introduce a new measure of coarseness for characterizing phase separation processes such as those described by Cahn--Hilliard equations. An advantage of our measure is that it remains consistent throughout the evolution, including for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

We formulate a novel numerical method suitable for the solution of topology optimization problems in solid mechanics. The most salient feature of the new approach is that the space and time discrete equations of the numerical method can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Edmund Bell-Navas , David Portillo , Ignacio Romero

A high-order numerical method is developed for solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with the Flory-Huggins potential. The scheme is based on the $Q_k$ finite element with mass lumping on rectangular grids, the second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Sayantan Sarkar

In this paper we study a non-local Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular single-well potential and degenerate mobility. This results as a particular case of a more general model derived for a binary, saturated, closed and incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Abramo Agosti , Elisabetta Rocca , Luca Scarpa

In this paper, we present a rigorous proof of the convergence of first order and second order exponential time differencing (ETD) schemes for solving the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard (NCH) equation. The spatial discretization employs the Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

We consider finite element approximations of unique continuation problems subject to elliptic equations in the case where the normal derivative of the exact solution is known to reside in some finite dimensional space. To give quantitative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen , Ziyao Zhao

Semidiscretization in time is studied for a class of quasi-linear evolution equations in a framework due to Kato, which applies to symmetric first-order hyperbolic systems and to a variety of fluid and wave equations. In the regime where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

The space fractional Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model is more adequate and accurate in the description of the formation and phase change mechanism than the classical Cahn-Hilliard model. In this article, we propose a temporal second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Yong-Liang Zhao , Meng Li , Alexander Ostermann , Xian-Ming Gu

This work builds on an existing model of discrete canonical evolution and applies it to the general case of a linear dynamical system, i.e., a finite-dimensional system with configuration space isomorphic to $ \mathbb{R}^{q} $ and linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jakub Káninský

The real Ginzburg-Landau equation arises as a universal amplitude equation for the description of pattern-forming systems exhibiting a Turing bifurcation. It possesses spatially periodic roll solutions which are known to be stable against…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Bastian Hilder , Björn de Rijk , Guido Schneider

We consider a stochastic partial differential equation with logarithmic (or negative power) nonlinearity, with one reflection at 0 and with a constraint of conservation of the space average. The equation, driven by the derivative in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Ludovic Goudenège

To solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation numerically, a new time integration algorithm is proposed, which is based on a combination of the Eyre splitting and the local iteration modified (LIM) scheme. The latter is employed to tackle the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 M. A. Botchev , I. A. Fahurdinov , E. B. Savenkov