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An asymptotic analysis for a system with equation and dynamic boundary condition of Cahn-Hilliard type is carried out as the coefficient of the surface diffusion acting on the phase variable tends to 0, thus obtaining a forward-backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao , Luca Scarpa

This paper proposes a finite element scheme, based on the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) approach, for the Cahn-Hilliard equation--a model that possesses significant physical relevance and a rich mathematical structure. A convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Na Li , Yongchao Zhao

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of two-phase flows or binary mixtures. In recent years, the dynamic boundary conditions for the Cahn-Hilliard equation have been proposed and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Shuting Gu , Ming Xiao , Rui Chen

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

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a viscous Cahn--Hilliard system with zero Neumann boundary conditions in which a hyperbolic relaxation term involving the second time derivative of the chemical potential has been added…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels

We develop a robust solver for a second order mixed finite element splitting scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. This work is an extension of our previous work in which we developed a robust solver for a first order mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Susanne C. Brenner , Amanda E. Diegel , Li-Yeng Sung

We propose a novel phase-field model to predict elastic microphase separation in polymer gels. To this end, we extend the Cahn-Hilliard free-energy functional to incorporate an elastic strain energy and a coupling term. These contributions…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 Hamza Oudich , Pietro Carrara , Laura De Lorenzis

In this paper we consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation endowed with Wentzell boundary condition which is a model of phase separation in a binary mixture contained in a bounded domain with permeable wall. Under the assumption that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-14 Hao Wu

In this paper, we study the contact line problem in a channel. Precisely, we consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system with eneralized Navier boundary condition and relaxation boundary condition in a channel, which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Shijin Ding , Yinghua Li , Zhilin Lin , Yuanxiang Yan

We study the well-posedness and asymptotic behaviour of selected PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems on one-dimensional spatial domains, namely a boundary coupled wave-heat system and a wave equation with a dynamic boundary condition. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Lassi Paunonen

In this paper, we study initial-boundary value problems for the Cahn--Hilliard system with convection and nonconvex potential, where dynamic boundary conditions are assumed for both the associated order parameter and the corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

In this note, we consider the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with constant mobility and singular potential in three dimensional bounded and smooth domains. Given any global solution (whose existence and uniqueness are already known), we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Andrea Giorgini

In this work, we deal with the stochastic counterpart of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with regular potential in a smooth bounded one-, two- or three-dimensional domain. The problem is endowed with homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Andrea Di Primio , Christoph Hurm

This paper mainly considers three iterations based on charge-conservative finite element approximation in Lipschitz domain for the stationary thermally coupled inductionless MHD equations. Based on the hybrid finite element method, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Shitian Dong , Haiyan Su

We consider a phase-field model where the internal energy depends on the order parameter in a nonlocal way. Therefore, the resulting system consists of the energy balance equation coupled with a nonlinear and nonlocal ODE for the order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Maurizio Grasselli , Giulio Schimperna

The Extended Hubbard Hamiltonian used by the Condensed Matter community is nothing but a simplified version of the Pariser, Parr and Pople Hamiltonian, well established in the Quantum Chemistry community as a powerful tool to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-16 E. San-Fabián , J. A. Vergés , G. Chiappe , E. Louis

In this paper we propose a time discretization of a system of two parabolic equations describing diffusion-driven atom rearrangement in crystalline matter. The equations express the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Pavel Krejčí , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider the equilibrium equations for a linearized Cosserat material and provide two perspectives concerning well-posedness. First, the system can be viewed as the Hodge Laplace problem on a differential complex. On the other hand, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Wietse Marijn Boon , Omar Duran , Jan Martin Nordbotten

We develop a robust solver for a mixed finite element convex splitting scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The key ingredient of the solver is a preconditioned minimal residual algorithm (with a multigrid preconditioner) whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Susanne C. Brenner , Amanda E. Diegel , Li-Yeng Sung

The functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) equation supports planar and circular bilayer interfaces as equilibria which may lose their stability through the pearling bifurcation: a periodic, high-frequency, in-plane modulation of the bilayer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Keith Promislow , Qiliang Wu