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In this paper we study a non-local Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular single-well potential and degenerate mobility. This results as a particular case of a more general model derived for a binary, saturated, closed and incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Abramo Agosti , Elisabetta Rocca , Luca Scarpa

A computationally efficient, low order finite element formulation is developed for modelling the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which have been established as a promising phase field modelling approach for simulation of immiscible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Aleksander Lovrić , Wulf G. Dettmer , Djordje Perić

An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper, we establish a novel approach to proving existence of non-negative weak solutions for degenerate parabolic equations of fourth order, like the Cahn-Hilliard and certain thin film equations. The considered evolution equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Stefano Lisini , Daniel Matthes , Giuseppe Savaré

A phase field model which describes the formation of protein-RNA complexes subject to phase segregation is analyzed. A single protein, two RNA species, and two complexes are considered. Protein and RNA species are governed by coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Scarpa , Andrea Signori

We examine the existence and stability of frozen waves in diblock copolymers with local conservation of the order parameter, which are described by the modified Cahn--Hilliard model. It is shown that a range of stable waves exists and each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. S. Benilov , W. T. Lee , R. O. Sedakov

A well-known diffuse interface model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations nonlinearly coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation. This system describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary-fluids and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Pierluigi Colli , Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

Global well-posedness and exponential decay to equilibrium are proved for the homogeneous Landau equation from kinetic theory. The initial distribution is only assumed to be bounded and decaying sufficiently fast at infinity. In particular,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Maria Gualdani , Nestor Guillen

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation on manifolds with conical singularities. For appropriate initial data, we show that the solution exists in the maximal $L^q$-regularity space for all times and becomes instantaneously smooth in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Pedro T. P. Lopes , Nikolaos Roidos

We present and analyze finite difference numerical schemes for the Allen Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic Flory Huggins energy potential. Both the first order and second order accurate temporal algorithms are considered. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Wenbin Chen , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Steven M. Wise

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes in mixtures of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Stefan Metzger

We present and analyze an unconditionally energy stable and convergent finite difference scheme for the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation. One key difficulty associated with the energy stability is based on the fact that one nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Wenqiang Feng , Zhen Guan , John Lowengrub , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

Here we consider the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with constant mobility in a bounded domain. We prove that the associated dynamical system has an exponential attractor, provided that the potential is regular. In order to do that a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Ciprian G. Gal , Maurizio Grasselli

We consider existence and uniqueness for several examples of linear parabolic equations formulated on moving hypersurfaces. Specifically, we study in turn a surface heat equation, an equation posed on a bulk domain, a novel coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Amal Alphonse , Charles M. Elliott , Björn Stinner

We show short time existence for the evolution of triple junction clusters driven by the surface diffusion flow. On the triple line we use the boundary conditions derived by Garcke and Novick-Cohen as the singular limit of a Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Harald Garcke , Michael Gößwein

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard and the conserved Allen-Cahn equations with logarithmic type potential and conservative noise in a periodic domain. These features ensure that the order parameter takes its values in the physical range and,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Scarpa

The aim of this article is to study a Cahn-Hilliard model for a multicomponent mixture with cross-diffusion effects, degenerate mobility and where only one of the species does separate from the others. We define a notion of weak solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Virginie Ehrlacher , Greta Marino , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

The properties of the evolution equation have been analyzed. The uniqueness and the existence of solution for the evolution equation with special value of parameter characterizing intensity of change of external conditions, of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Kurasov

Second-order phase field models have emerged as an attractive option for capturing the advection of interfaces in two-phase flows. Prior to these, state-of-the-art models based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which is a fourth-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shahab Mirjalili , Makrand A Khanwale , Ali Mani

With this paper we provide a mathematical review on the initial-value problem of the one-particle Dirac equation on space-like Cauchy hypersurfaces for compactly supported external potentials. We, first, discuss the physically relevant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. -A. Deckert , F. Merkl