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We study the numerical solution of a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn system with strong coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices. A fully discrete approximation scheme in space and time is proposed which…
We study the long-time dynamics of a bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard system describing phase separation processes with bulk-surface interaction. The presence of convection terms leads to a non-autonomous dynamical system and prevents…
The paper studies a scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method to solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility posed on a smooth closed surface {\Gamma}. The SAV formulation is combined with adaptive time stepping and a…
The well-known cubic Allen-Cahn (AC) equation is a simple gradient dynamics (or variational) model for a nonconserved order parameter field. After revising main literature results for the occuring different types of moving fronts, we employ…
We study the nonlocal-to-local convergence for a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with anisotropic and singular kernels. In particular, we show convergence of weak solutions of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of a…
We investigate quantitative properties of nonnegative solutions $u(t,x)\ge 0$ to the nonlinear fractional diffusion equation, $\partial_t u + \mathcal{L}F(u)=0$ posed in a bounded domain, $x\in\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, with appropriate…
In this paper, we study the prototypical model of liquid-liquid phase separation, the Cahn-Hilliard functional, in a highly irregular setting. Specifically, we analyze potentials with low regularity vanishing on space-dependent wells. Under…
An asymptotic limit of a class of Cahn-Hilliard systems is investigated to obtain a general nonlinear diffusion equation. The target diffusion equation may reproduce a number of well-known model equations: Stefan problem, porous media…
We focus on the derivation and analysis of a model for multi-component phase separation occurring on biological membranes, inspired by observations of lipid raft formation. The model integrates local membrane composition with local membrane…
This work studies the following doubly degenerate parabolic-elliptic nutrient taxis system $$ \begin{cases} u_t = (uvu_x)_x -(u^2 vv_x)_x + uv, \\[1.5 ex] \hspace{0.2 cm}0 = v_{xx} - uv + f(x,t), \end{cases} $$ in a bounded interval $\Omega…
Constrained gradient flows are studied in fracture mechanics to describe strongly irreversible (or unidirectional) evolution of cracks. The present paper is devoted to a study on the long-time behavior of non-compact orbits of such…
In this paper, we study the longtime asymptotic behavior of a phase separation process occurring in a three-dimensional domain containing a fluid flow of given velocity. This process is modeled by a viscous convective Cahn-Hilliard system,…
We consider a finite region of a lattice of weakly interacting geodesic flows on manifolds of negative curvature and we show that, when rescaling the interactions and the time appropriately, the energies of the flows evolve according to a…
Problems for partial differential equations coupled with dynamic boundary conditions can be viewed as a type of transmission problem between the bulk and its boundary. For the heat equation and the Allen-Cahn equation, various forms of such…
Some of recent developments, including recent results, ideas, techniques, and approaches, in the study of degenerate partial differential equations are surveyed and analyzed. Several examples of nonlinear degenerate, even mixed, partial…
This work is devoted to the study of the existence of at least one weak solution to nonlocal equations involving a general integro-differential operator of fractional type. As a special case, we derive an existence theorem for the…
In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the commonly used binary fluid-surfactant phase field model that consists two nonlinearly coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations. The main challenge in solving the system numerically is…
We study the systematic numerical approximation of a class of Allen-Cahn type problems modeling the motion of phase interfaces. The common feature of these models is an underlying gradient flow structure which gives rise to a decay of an…
In this paper, we present several unconditionally energy-stable invariant energy quadratization (IEQ) finite element methods (FEMs) with linear, first- and second-order accuracy for solving both the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the Allen-Cahn…
This paper is concerned with a compressible MHD equations describing the evolution of viscous non-resistive fluids in piecewise regular bounded Lipschitz domains. Under the general inflow-outflow boundary conditions, we prove existence of…