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We study the large-scale behavior of solutions to the Allen-Cahn reaction-diffusion equation with Gaussian initial data. We consider the case of short-range dependence in the associated supercritical regime with spatial dimension $d \ge 3$.…

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A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Wolfgang Dreyer , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Kraus

In this paper we investigate the long-term behaviour of solutions to the discrete Allen-Cahn equation posed on a two-dimensional lattice. We show that front-like initial conditions evolve towards a planar travelling wave modulated by a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Mia Jukić , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard system with nonlinear viscosity terms and nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions. The problem is highly nonlinear, characterized by four nonlinearities and two separate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Luca Scarpa

Reaction-diffusion models with nonlocal constraints naturally arise as limiting cases of coupled bulk-surface models of intracellular signalling. In this paper, a minimal, mass-conserving model of cell-polarization on a curved membrane is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-04 Pearson W. Miller , Daniel Fortunato , Matteo Novaga , Stanislav Y. Shvartsman , Cyrill B. Muratov

The mathematical analysis of diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows has attracted significant attention due to their ability to capture complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified, energetically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

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

We examine a family of microscopic models of plasmas, with a parameter $\alpha$ comparing the typical distance between collisions to the strength of the grazing collisions. These microscopic models converge in distribution, in the weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Kay Kirkpatrick

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang

We consider the singular limit of a bistable reaction diffusion equation in the case when the velocity of the traveling wave solution depends on the space variable and converges to a discontinuous function. We show that the family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Cecilia De Zan , Pierpaolo Soravia

Single-file diffusion refers to the Brownian motion in narrow channels where particles cannot pass each other. In such processes, the diffusion of a tagged particle is typically normal at short times and becomes subdiffusive at long times.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Sören Schweers , Alexander P. Antonov , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

An interacting particle system made of diffusion processes with local interaction is considered and the macroscopic limit to a nonlinear PDE is investigated. Few rigorous results exists on this problem and in particular the explicit form of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Franco Flandoli , Marta Leocata , Cristiano Ricci

This paper deals with the evolution equation of a curve obtained as the sharp interface limit of a non-linear system of two reaction-diffusion PDEs. This system was introduced as a phase-field model of (crawling) motion of eukaryotic cells…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Matthew S. Mizuhara , Leonid Berlyand , Volodymyr Rybalko , Lei Zhang

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

We consider a coupled bulk--surface Allen--Cahn system affixed with a Robin-type boundary condition between the bulk and surface variables. This system can also be viewed as a relaxation to a bulk--surface Allen--Cahn system with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Kei Fong Lam , Hao Wu

This work investigates the vector-valued Allen-Cahn equation with potentials of high-dimensional double-wells under Robin boundary conditions. We establish local-in-time convergence of solutions to mean curvature flow with a fixed contact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Xingyu Wang

We consider a multidimensional monostable reaction-diffusion equation whose nonlinearity involves periodic heterogeneity. This serves as a model of invasion for a population facing spatial heterogeneities. As a rescaling parameter tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti

In this article we study a coupled system of differential equations with Allen-Cahn type non-linearity. Motivated by physical phenomena one of the unknowns in the system is accompanied by a singular perturbation parameter ${\epsilon}^2$ .…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Javier Monreal , Michał Kowalczyk

A diffused interface model describing the evolution of two conterminous incompressible fluids in a porous medium is discussed. The system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins logarithmic potential, coupled via surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato