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We study the Cahn-Hilliard equation with non-degenerate concentration-dependent mobility and logarithmic potential in two dimensions. We show that any weak solution is unique, exhibits propagation of uniform-in-time regularity, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Monica Conti , Pietro Galimberti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini

We give a detailed study of the infinite-energy solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation in the 3D cylindrical domains in uniformly local phase space. In particular, we establish the well-posedness and dissipativity for the case of regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-20 A. Eden , V. K. Kalantarov , S. V. Zelik

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes the phase separation process in multi-component mixtures. It has been successfully extended to many different contexts in several scientific fields. In this survey article, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu

In this paper, we study a hyperbolic relaxation of the viscous Cahn--Hilliard system with zero Neumann boundary conditions. In fact, we consider a relaxation term involving the second time derivative of the chemical potential in the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a class of six-order Cahn-Hilliard equations with logarithmic type potential. This system is closely connected with some important phase-field models relevant in different applications, for instance, the functionalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Giulio Schimperna , Hao Wu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Liu , Shuting Gu

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

We describe a functional framework suitable to the analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface whose evolution is assumed to be given \textit{a priori}. The model is derived from balance laws for an order parameter with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott

We derive a new effective macroscopic Cahn-Hilliard equation whose homogeneous free energy is represented by 4-th order polynomials, which form the frequently applied double-well potential. This upscaling is done for perforated/strongly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Markus Schmuck , Marc Pradas , Greg A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis

We propose a new class of phase field models coupled to viscoelasticity with large deformations, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model composed by a phase with elastic properties and a liquid phase. The model is formulated in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

We study a Cahn-Hilliard model for phase separation in composite materials with multiple periodic microstructures. These are modeled by considering a highly oscillating potential. The focus of this paper is in the case where the scales of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Riccardo Cristoferi , Luca Pignatelli

We establish metastability of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation for initial data that is order-one in energy and order-one in $\dot{H}^{-1}$ away from a point on the so-called slow manifold with $N$ well-separated layers.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Sebastian Scholtes , Maria G. Westdickenberg

In this paper we focus on the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions, by adding two hyperbolic relaxation terms to the system. We verify that the energy of the total system is decreasing with time. By adding two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Minghui Yu , Rui Chen

We present a long-wavelength approximation to the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard equations to describe phase separation in thin films. The equations we derive underscore the coupled behaviour of free-surface variations and phase separation. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

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

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

To describe the simultaneous order-disorder transformation and phase separation Eguchi, Oki and Matsumura [\doi{10.1557/proc-21-589}] introduced the system of two equations: one equation, governing the evolution of a conserved order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-19 P. O. Mchedlov-Petrosyan , L. N. Davydov

We present new linear energy-stable numerical schemes for numerical simulation of complex polymer-solvent mixtures. The mathematical model proposed by Zhou, Zhang and E (Physical Review E 73, 2006) consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Paul J. Strasser , Giordano Tierra , Burkhard Dünweg , Mária Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

We consider local and nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations with constant mobility and singular potentials including, e.g., the Flory-Huggins potential, subject to no-flux (or periodic) boundary conditions. The main goal is to show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Scarpa , Andrea Signori

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna