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The Cahn-Hilliard equation is related with a number of interesting physical phenomena like the spinodal decomposition, phase separation and phase ordering dynamics. On the other hand this equation is very stiff an the difficulty to solve it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. L. de Mello , Otton Teixeira da Silveira Filho

An asymptotic analysis for a system with equation and dynamic boundary condition of Cahn-Hilliard type is carried out as the coefficient of the surface diffusion acting on the phase variable tends to 0, thus obtaining a forward-backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao , Luca Scarpa

A proof of optimal-order error estimates is given for the full discretization of the bulk--surface Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The numerical method combines a linear bulk--surface finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Nils Bullerjahn

We focus on the numerical approximation of the Cahn-Hilliard type equations, and present a family of second-order unconditionally energy-stable schemes. By reformulating the equation into an equivalent system employing a scalar auxiliary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-19 Suchuan Dong , Zhiguo Yang , Lianlei Lin

Efficient and unconditionally stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and analysis an efficient stabilized linear Crank-Nicolson scheme for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes the phase separation process in multi-component mixtures. It has been successfully extended to many different contexts in several scientific fields. In this survey article, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu

In this article we present a refined convergence analysis for a second order accurate in time, fourth order finite difference numerical scheme for the 3-D Cahn-Hilliard equation, with an improved convergence constant. A modified backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jing Guo , Cheng Wang , Yue Yan , Xingye Yue

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation has a wide range of applications in many areas of physics and chemistry. To describe the short-range interaction between the solution and the boundary, scientists have constructed dynamical boundary conditions by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Yunzhuo Guo , Cheng Wang , Zhengru Zhang

This work represents a first contribution on the problem of boundary stabilization for the phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type, which models the phase separation in a binary mixture. The feedback controller we design here is with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Ionut Munteanu

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with hyperbolic relaxation. This type of equations processes energy-dissipative structure. The main challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

We consider the two-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation with logarithmic potentials and periodic boundary conditions. We employ the standard semi-implicit numerical scheme which treats the linear fourth-order dissipation term implicitly and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Dong Li , Tao Tang

In this work we introduce novel numerical schemes for a penalized version of the ternary Cahn-Hilliard system for the purpose of creating accurate and efficient numerical schemes of interfacial dynamics with three components as well as some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Justin Swain , Giordano Tierra

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Liu , Shuting Gu

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

This paper proposes a finite element scheme, based on the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) approach, for the Cahn-Hilliard equation--a model that possesses significant physical relevance and a rich mathematical structure. A convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Na Li , Yongchao Zhao

We present a numerical scheme for solving a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard type equation that captures the dynamics of phase transitions in a ternary mixture consisting of two immiscible fluids and a surface active molecule that is amphiphilic.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Natasha S. Sharma , Giordano Tierra

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

Efficient and energy stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for the study of nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and study two linearly stabilized second order semi-implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu