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We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which models phase separation in binary fluids, on the two-dimen\-sional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow, satisfying certain conditions and of sufficiently large…
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,…
In this paper, we introduce novel discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which arises in many applications. The method is designed by integrating the mixed DG method for the spatial discretization with the…
We present an approximate analytical solution of the Cahn-Hilliard equation describing the coalescence during a first order phase transition. We have identified all the intermediate profiles, stationary solutions of the noiseless…
The reaction-diffusion model can generate a wide variety of spatial patterns, which has been widely applied in chemistry, biology, and physics, even used to explain self-regulated pattern formation in the developing animal embryo. In this…
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…
In this paper we study a distributed control problem for a phase-field system of conserved type with a possibly singular potential. We mainly handle two cases: the case of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard type dynamics for the phase variable in case…
We propose a hydridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The temporal discretization can be based on either the backward Euler method or the convex-splitting method. We show that the fully…
We consider a differential model describing nonisothermal fast phase separation processes taking place in a three-dimensional bounded domain. This model consists of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation characterized by the presence of an…
This paper investigates the stability of both the semi-discrete and the implicit central scheme for the linear damped wave equation on the half-line, where the spatial boundary is characteristic for the limiting equation. The proposed…
In this paper we study the optimal control of a parabolic initial-boundary value problem of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type with zero Neumann boundary conditions. Phase field systems of this type govern the evolution of diffusive phase…
We propose some finite element schemes to solve a class of fourth-order nonlinear PDEs, which include the vector-valued Landau--Lifshitz--Baryakhtar equation, the Swift--Hohenberg equation, and various Cahn--Hilliard-type equations with…
In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…
In this article we present a refined convergence analysis for a second order accurate in time, fourth order finite difference numerical scheme for the 3-D Cahn-Hilliard equation, with an improved convergence constant. A modified backward…
We introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…
In this work, we develop an $\mathcal{O}(N)$ implicit real space method in 1D and 2D for the Cahn Hilliard (CH) and vector Cahn Hilliard (VCH) equations, based on the Method Of Lines Transpose (MOL$^\text{T}$) formulation. This formulation…
For the time-fractional phase field models, the corresponding energy dissipation law has not been settled on both the continuous level and the discrete level. In this work, we shall address this open issue. More precisely, we prove for the…
We explore a class of splitting schemes employing implicit-explicit (IMEX) time-stepping to achieve accurate and energy-stable solutions for thin-film equations and Cahn-Hilliard models with variable mobility. This splitting method…
We propose a new numerical method to solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with non-linear wetting boundary conditions. We show that the method is mass-conservative and that the discrete solution satisfies a discrete energy law similar…
We focus on the numerical approximation of the Cahn-Hilliard type equations, and present a family of second-order unconditionally energy-stable schemes. By reformulating the equation into an equivalent system employing a scalar auxiliary…