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We present a fully Eulerian hybrid immersed-boundary/phase-field model to simulate wetting and contact line motion over any arbitrary geometry. The solid wall is described with a volume-penalisation ghost-cell immersed boundary whereas the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Armin Shahmardi , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

In this work, we apply phase field simulations to examine the coarsening behavior of morphologically complex two-phase microstructures in which the phases have highly dissimilar mobilities, a condition approaching that found in experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-10 W. Beck Andrews , Peter W. Voorhees , Katsuyo Thornton

A Cahn-Hilliard-type theory for hydrodynamic fluctuations is proposed that gives a quantitative description of the slowly evolving spatial correlations and structures in density and flow fields in the early stages of evolution of freely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst

We consider a general class of bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard systems with dynamic boundary conditions. In contrast to classical Neumann boundary conditions, the dynamic boundary conditions of Cahn--Hilliard type allow for dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Patrik Knopf , Jonas Stange

We consider a diffuse interface model describing a ternary system constituted by a conductive diblock copolymer and a homopolymer acting as solvent. The resulting dynamics is modeled by two Cahn--Hilliard--Oono equations for the copolymer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Helmut Abels , Andrea Di Primio , Harald Garcke

Mechanical effects have mostly been neglected so far in phase field tumour models that are based on a Cahn-Hilliard approach. In this paper we study a macroscopic mechanical model for tumour growth in which cell-cell adhesion effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Andrea Signori

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

An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We introduce a new diffuse interface model for tumour growth in the presence of a nutrient, in which we take into account mechanical effects and reversible tissue damage. The highly nonlinear PDEs system mainly consists of a Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Giulia Cavalleri

Biomembranes and vesicles consisting of multiple phases can attain a multitude of shapes, undergoing complex shape transitions. We study a Cahn--Hilliard model on an evolving hypersurface coupled to Navier--Stokes equations on the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d = 2, 3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli

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

While various phase-field models have recently appeared for two-phase fluids with different densities, only some are known to be thermodynamically consistent, and practical stable schemes for their numerical simulation are lacking. In this…

The two-phase Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) mixture model is a key framework for simulating multiphase flows with non-matching densities. Developing fully discrete, energy-stable schemes for this model remains challenging, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Marco F. P. ten Eikelder

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

We report on simulations of two-phase flows with deforming interfaces at various density contrasts by solving thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. An (essentially) unconditionally energy-stable…

We study a diffusion model of phase field type, consisting of a system of two partial differential equations encoding the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two unknowns are the order parameter and the chemical potential. By a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Juergen Sprekels

In this work, we propose a new model for flow through deformable porous media, where the solid material has two phases with distinct material properties. The two phases of the porous material follow a Cahn-Hilliard type evolution, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

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