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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

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

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

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

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

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

We give a detailed study of the infinite-energy solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation in the 3D cylindrical domains in uniformly local phase space. In particular, we establish the well-posedness and dissipativity for the case of regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-20 A. Eden , V. K. Kalantarov , S. V. Zelik

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation that models phase separation process of binary mixtures involving nontrivial boundary interactions in a bounded domain with non-permeable wall. The system is characterized by certain dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Takeshi Fukao , Hao Wu

In this note, we study the optimal control of a nonisothermal phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type that constitutes an extension of the classical Caginalp model for nonisothermal phase transitions with a conserved order parameter. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We study the well-posedness of a modified degenerate Cahn-Hilliard type model for surface diffusion. With degenerate phase-dependent diffusion mobility and additional stabilizing function, this model is able to give the correct sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Xiaohua Niu , Yang Xiang , Xiaodong Yan

We find analytical solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the dynamics of an interface in a system with a conserved order parameter (Model B). We show that, although steady-state solutions of Model B are unphysical in the far-field,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. L. Evans , M. E. Cates

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

We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d = 2, 3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli

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

The existence problem for {C}ahn--{H}illiard system with dynamic boundary conditions and time periodic conditions is discussed. We apply the abstract theory of evolution equations by using viscosity approach and the Schauder fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Taishi Motoda

We study the growth of a periodic pattern in one dimension for a model of spinodal decomposition, the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We particularly focus on the intermediate region, where the non-linearity cannot be negected anymore, and before…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Villain-Guillot , Christophe Josserand

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation with kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary conditions that describe possible short-range interactions between the binary mixture and the solid boundary. In the presence of surface diffusion on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

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

We study a diffusion model of phase field type, consisting of a system of two partial differential equations encoding the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two unknowns are the order parameter and the chemical potential. By a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Juergen Sprekels

P. Galenko et al. proposed a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation to model rapid spinodal decomposition in non-equilibrium phase separation processes. This equation contains an inertial term which causes the loss of any regularizing effect on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Maurizio Grasselli , Giulio Schimperna , Sergey Zelik