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The Cahn-Hilliard equation is related with a number of interesting physical phenomena like the spinodal decomposition, phase separation and phase ordering dynamics. On the other hand this equation is very stiff an the difficulty to solve it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. L. de Mello , Otton Teixeira da Silveira Filho

We study the anisotropic, incompressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system with variable density in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. This work extends previous results on the isotropic case by incorporating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Azeddine Zaidni , Saad Benjelloun , Radouan Boukharfane

In this paper, we derive the time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation from continuum mixture theory with a modification of Fick's law of diffusion. This model describes the process of phase separation with nonlocal memory effects. We analyze…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Marvin Fritz , Mabel L. Rajendran , Barbara Wohlmuth

We consider a local Cahn-Hilliard-type model for tumor growth as well as a nonlocal model where, compared to the local system, the Laplacian in the equation for the chemical potential is replaced by a nonlocal operator. The latter is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Christoph Hurm , Maximilian Moser

Phase field models recently gained a lot of interest in the context of tumour growth models. Typically Darcy-type flow models are coupled to Cahn-Hilliard equations. However, often Stokes or Brinkman flows are more appropriate flow models.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Matthias Ebenbeck , Harald Garcke

The well-known Cahn-Hilliard equation entails mass conservation if a suitable boundary condition is prescribed. In the case when the equation is also coupled with a dynamic boundary condition, including the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

This paper investigates an optimal control problem associated with a two-dimensional multi-species Cahn-Hilliard-Keller-Segel tumor growth model, which incorporates complex biological processes such as species diffusion, chemotaxis,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We study a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of two-phase incompressible flows driven by the thermo-induced Marangoni effect. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lingxi Chen , Hao Wu

We analyze a coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Forchheimer system featuring concentration-dependent mobility, mass source and convective transport. The velocity field is governed by a generalized quasi-incompressible Forchheimer equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Marvin Fritz

We prove the existence of weak solutions to a viscoelastic phase separation problem in two space dimensions. The mathematical model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard-type equation for two-phase flows and the Peterlin-Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Aaron Brunk , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

We show existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system on a given two-dimensional evolving surface in the case of different densities and a singular (logarithmic) potential. The system describes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

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

We analyze a Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for viscous incompressible two-phase flows where the mechanisms of chemotaxis, active transport and reaction are taken into account. The evolution system couples the Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jingning He , Hao Wu

We analyze a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible viscous two-phase flows, incorporating mechanisms such as chemotaxis, active transport, and long-range interactions of Oono's type. The evolution system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jingning He , Hao Wu

A spectral-fractional Cahn-Hilliard cross-diffusion system, which describes the pre-patterning of lymphatic vessel morphology in collagen gels, is studied. The model consists of two higher-order quasilinear parabolic equations and describes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Ansgar Jüngel , Yue Li

The paper arXiv:1804.11290 contains well-posedness and regularity results for a system of evolutionary operator equations having the structure of a Cahn-Hilliard system. The operators appearing in the system equations were fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We propose a diffuse interface model to describe tumor as a multicomponent deformable porous medium. We include mechanical effects in the model by coupling the mass balance equations for the tumor species and the nutrient dynamics to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Pavel Krejci , Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen Sprekels

We consider a class of bulk-surface coupled Cahn-Hilliard systems in a smooth, bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, where the trace value of the bulk phase variable is connected to the surface phase variable via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation has a wide range of applications in many areas of physics and chemistry. To describe the short-range interaction between the solution and the boundary, scientists have constructed dynamical boundary conditions by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Yunzhuo Guo , Cheng Wang , Zhengru Zhang

A system of two operator equations is considered - one of pseudomonotone type and the other of strongly monotone type - both being strongly coupled. Conditions are given that allow to reduce the solvability of this system to a single…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Donat Wegner