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A well-known diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. In some recent contributions the standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Pavel Krejčí

In the present work, we address a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a nonlinear diffusive dynamics and possibly containing an additional sixth order term. This model describes the separation properties of oil-water mixtures,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Giulio Schimperna , Irena Pawlow

The Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn equation with noise is a simplified mean field model of stochastic microscopic dynamics associated with adsorption and desorption-spin flip mechanisms in the context of surface processes. For such an equation we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Dimitra C. Antonopoulou , Geogia Karali , Annie Millet

We consider an evolution equation inspired by a model in peridynamics, with a singular pairwise interaction force term, and we give global in time existence, uniqueness and stability results for the Cauchy problem.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Serena Dipierro , Francesco Maddalena , Enrico Valdinoci

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Patrik Knopf , Kei Fong Lam , Chun Liu , Stefan Metzger

We consider the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular (logarithmic) potential and constant mobility in three-dimensional bounded domains and we establish the validity of the instantaneous strict separation property. This means that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Andrea Poiatti

The Cauchy problem is studied for very general systems of evolution equations, where the time derivative of solution is written by Fourier multipliers in space and analytic nonlinearity, with no other structural requirement. We construct a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kenji Nakanishi , Baoxiang Wang

We present a set of linear, second order, unconditionally energy stable schemes for the Allen-Cahn model with a nonlocal constraint for crystal growth that conserves the mass of each phase. Solvability conditions are established for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Xiaobo Jing , Qi Wang

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

An established strategy for material modeling is provided by energy-based principles such that evolution equations in terms of ordinary differential equations can be derived. However, there exist a variety of material models that also need…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-10 Philipp Junker , Daniel Balzani

We consider a partial differential equation that arises in the coarse-grained description of epitaxial growth processes. This is a parabolic equation whose evolution is governed by the competition between the determinant of the Hessian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Carlos Escudero , Filippo Gazzola , Ireneo Peral

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Poiatti , Jonas Stange , Sema Yayla

We investigate the well-posedness of the recently proposed Cahn-Hilliard-Biot model. The model is a three-way coupled PDE of elliptic-parabolic nature, with several nonlinearities and the fourth order term known to the Cahn-Hilliard system.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Cedric Riethmüller , Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Florin Adrian Radu

This paper presents a mathematical foundation for physical models in nonlinear optics through the lens of evolutionary equations. It focuses on two key concepts: well-posedness and exponential stability of Maxwell equations, with models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Nils Margenberg , Markus Bause

The Cahn-Hilliard model with reaction terms can lead to situations in which no coarsening is taking place and, in contrast, growth and division of droplets occur which all do not grow larger than a certain size. This phenomenon has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

We study a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows with chemotaxis effects. This model also takes into account some significant mechanisms such as active transport and nonlocal interactions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Jingning He , Hao Wu

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations with degenerate potential is shown. The nonlocality is described by means of a symmetric singular kernel not falling within the framework of any previous existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Elisa Davoli , Helene Ranetbauer , Luca Scarpa , Lara Trussardi

The Einstein evolution equations are studied in a gauge given by a combination of the constant mean curvature and spatial harmonic coordinate conditions. This leads to a coupled quasilinear elliptic--hyperbolic system of evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Vincent Moncrief

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

In this paper, we provide a detailed convergence analysis for a first order stabilized linear semi-implicit numerical scheme for the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation, which follows from consistency and stability estimates for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Cheng Wang