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There has been recently an important interest in deriving rigorously the Cahn-Hilliard equation from the nonlocal equation, also called aggregation equation. So far, only non-degenerate mobilities were treated. Since we are motivated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Charles Elbar , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

We consider a Cahn-Hilliard equation which is the conserved gradient flow of a nonlocal total free energy functional. This functional is characterized by a Helmholtz free energy density, which can be of logarithmic type. Moreover, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Helmut Abels , Stefano Bosia , Maurizio Grasselli

A common paradigm in phase-field models with singular potentials is that global-in-time weak solutions converge to a single equilibrium only after undergoing asymptotic regularization. However, in arXiv:2510.17296 we introduced a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

We propose and analyze a finite element approximation of the relaxed Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular single-well potential of Lennard-Jones type and degenerate mobility that is energy stable and nonnegativity preserving. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Alexandre Poulain , Federica Bubba

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

A novel numerical strategy is introduced for computing approximations of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard model with degenerate mobilities. This model has recently been introduced as a second-order phase-field approximation for surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Elie Bretin , Luca Calatroni , Simon Masnou

The Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility is used in several areas including the modeling of living tissues. We are interested in quantifying the pressure jump at the interface in the case of incompressible flows. To do so, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Charles Elbar , Benoît Perthame , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

In this work, the sharp interface limit of the degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation (in two space dimensions) with a polynomial double well free energy and a quadratic mobility is derived via a matched asymptotic analysis involving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Alpha Albert Lee , Andreas Münch , Endre Süli

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the fourth order Cahn-Hilliard equation with concentration dependent mobility, and the logarithmic Flory-Huggins potential. One challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

We study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 David O'Connor , Bjorn Stinner

Cahn-Hilliard models are central for describing the evolution of interfaces in phase separation processes and free boundary problems. In general, they have non-constant and often degenerate mobilities. However, in the latter case, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Catalina Pesce , Andreas Münch

Recently, we have derived an effective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase separation dynamics of active Brownian particles by performing a weakly non-linear analysis of the effective hydrodynamic equations for density and polarization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Thomas Speck , Andreas M. Menzel , Julian Bialké , Hartmut Löwen

We prove existence of weak solutions to a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Jonas Haselböck

We consider a general class of bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard systems with dynamic boundary conditions. In contrast to classical Neumann boundary conditions, the dynamic boundary conditions of Cahn--Hilliard type allow for dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Patrik Knopf , Jonas Stange

The global existence of bounded weak solutions to a diffusion system modeling biofilm growth is proven. The equations consist of a reaction-diffusion equation for the substrate concentration and a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard-type equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Christoph Helmer , Ansgar Jüngel

We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

In this work, we analytically investigate a degenerating PDE system for phase separation and complete damage processes considered on a nonsmooth time-dependent domain with mixed boundary conditions. The evolution of the system is described…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Christian Heinemann , Christiane Kraus

We provide a rigorous mathematical framework to establish the limit of a nonlocal model of cell-cell adhesion system to a local model. When the parameter of the nonlocality goes to 0, the system tends to a Cahn-Hilliard system with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 José A. Carrillo , Charles Elbar , Jakub Skrzeczkowski