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We consider two-phase fluid deformable surfaces as model systems for biomembranes. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-like equations with bending forces. We derive this model using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Elena Bachini , Veit Krause , Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt

Here we consider a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system characterized by a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with a singular (e.g., logarithmic) potential. This system originates from a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

Well-posedness is proved for the stochastic viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and Wiener multiplicative noise. The double-well potential is allowed to have any growth at infinity (in particular,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Luca Scarpa

We consider a diffuse interface model that describes the macro- and micro-phase separation processes of a polymer mixture. The resulting system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono type equation endowed with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Bohan Ouyang

In the recent paper `Well-posedness and regularity for a generalized fractional Cahn-Hilliard system' (arXiv:1804.11290) by the same authors, general well-posedness results have been established for a a class of evolutionary systems of two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a convective bulk-surface Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions and singular potentials. For this model, well-posedness results concerning weak and strong solutions have already been established in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Andrea Giorgini , Patrik Knopf , Jonas Stange

We consider the numerical approximations of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions (C. Liu et. al., Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 2019). We propose a first-order in time, linear and energy stable numerical scheme, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Xuelian Bao , Hui Zhang

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 paper, we consider the global well-posedness and time-decay rates of solution to the Cauchy problem for 3D convective Cahn-Hilliard equation with double-well potential via a refined pure energy method. In particular, the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Xiaopeng Zhao

A system with equation and dynamic boundary condition of Cahn-Hilliard type is considered. This system comes from a derivation performed in Liu-Wu (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 233 (2019), 167--247) via an energetic variational approach.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao , Luca Scarpa

This article examines the dynamic phase transitions and pattern formations attributed to binary systems modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In particular, we consider a two-dimensional lattice structure and determine how different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jared Grossman , Evan Halloran , Shouhong Wang

We prove well-posedness results for the solution to an initial and boundary-value problem for an Allen-Cahn type equation describing the phenomenon of phase transitions for a material contained in a bounded and regular domain. The dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Luca Calatroni , Pierluigi Colli

In this paper, we consider the advective unstable Cahn-Hilliard equation in 2D with shear flow: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t+Av_1(y) \partial_x u+\varepsilon \Delta^2 u= \Delta(a u^3+ b u^2) \quad & \quad \textrm{on} \quad \mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Bingyang Hu , Dinghua Xu , Yeyu Zhang

In this work, we deal with the stochastic counterpart of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with regular potential in a smooth bounded one-, two- or three-dimensional domain. The problem is endowed with homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Andrea Di Primio , Christoph Hurm

In this paper we focus on the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions, by adding two hyperbolic relaxation terms to the system. We verify that the energy of the total system is decreasing with time. By adding two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Minghui Yu , Rui Chen

An advective Cahn-Hilliard model motivated by thin film formation is studied in this paper. The one-dimensional evolution equation under consideration includes a transport term, whose presence prevents from identifying a gradient flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Marco Bonacini , Elisa Davoli , Marco Morandotti

The Cahn--Hilliard equation with anisotropic energy contributions frequently appears in many physical systems. Systematic analytical results for the case with the relevant logarithmic free energy have been missing so far. We close this gap…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf , Julia Wittmann

A thermodynamically consistent framework able to model either diffusive and displacive phase transitions is proposed. The first law of thermodynamics, the balance of linear momentum equation and the Cahn-Hilliard equation for solute mass…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 Mirko Maraldi , Luisa Molari , Diego Grandi

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of two-phase flows or binary mixtures. In recent years, the dynamic boundary conditions for the Cahn-Hilliard equation have been proposed and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Shuting Gu , Ming Xiao , Rui Chen

This is an introduction to the analysis of nonlinear evolution equations on manifolds with conical singularities via maximal regularity techniques. We address the specific difficulties due to the singularities, in particular the choice of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Elmar Schrohe