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The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

We prove existence and regularity for the solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard system describing the phenomenon of phase separation for a material contained in a bounded and regular domain. Since the first equation of the system is perturbed by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Michele Colturato

We use the evolving surface finite element method to solve a Cahn- Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. We start by deriving the equation using a conservation law and appropriate transport for- mulae and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

A proof of convergence is given for bulk--surface finite element semi-discretisation of the Cahn--Hilliard equation with Cahn--Hilliard-type dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The semi-discretisation is studied in the weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Paula Harder , Balázs Kovács

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

The motion of two contiguous incompressible and viscous fluids is described within the diffuse interface theory by the so-called Model H. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, which are coupled with the Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Andrea Giorgini , Alain Miranville , Roger Temam

Based on relative energy estimates, we study the stability of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with concentration dependent mobility with respect to perturbations. As a by-product of our analysis, we obtain a weak-strong uniqueness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

We study an initial-boundary value problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system with non-constant density proposed by Abels, Garcke and Gr\"{u}n in 2012. This model arises in the diffuse interface theory for binary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Giorgini

We prove existence of martingale solutions for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and multiplicative Wiener noise. The potential is allowed to be of logarithmic or double-obstacle type. By extending to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Luca Scarpa

In this paper, we examine the regularity of the solutions to the double-divergence equation. We establish improved H\"older continuity as solutions approach their zero level-sets. In fact, we prove that $\alpha$-H\"older continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-19 Raimundo Leitão , Edgard A. Pimentel , Makson S. Santos

We study the evolution equations for a regularized version of Dirac-harmonic maps from closed Riemannian surfaces. We establish the existence of a global weak solution for the regularized problem, which is smooth away from finitely many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Volker Branding

In this paper, the existence of weak solutions of a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility is studied. We first define a notion of weak solutions and establish a regularized problems. The existence of such solutions is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Xiaopeng Zhao

The Cahn-Hilliard and viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with singular and possibly nonsmooth potentials and dynamic boundary condition are considered and some well-posedness and regularity results are proved. Key words: Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

In the present work, we address a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a singular diffusion term. The problem is a simplified version with constant mobility of the Cahn-Hilliard-de Gennes model of phase separation in binary,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Giulio Schimperna , Irena Pawlow

In this paper, we study the regularity of solutions to the Hamiltonian stationary equation in complex Euclidean space. We show that in dimensions $n\leq 4$, for all values of the Lagrangian phase, any $C^{1,1}$ solution is smooth and derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Arunima Bhattacharya

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

This work studies the nonlocal Cahn Hilliard Brinkman system, which models the phase separation of a binary fluid in a bounded domain and porous media. We focus on a system with a singular potential namely logarithmic form and a degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Sheetal Dharmatti , Greeshma K

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

The evolution equation derived by Xiang (SIAM J. Appl. Math. 63:241--258, 2002) to describe vicinal surfaces in heteroepitaxial growth is $$ h_t=-\left[ H(h_x)+\left(h_x^{-1}+h_x \right) h_{xx}\right]_{xx}, $$ where $h$ denotes the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Irene Fonseca , Giovanni Leoni , Xin Yang Lu

The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation provides a natural extension of the classical model for phase separation by incorporating long-range interactions through a singular convolution kernel. While this formulation admits a rich existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Andrea Poiatti , Maurizio Grasselli , Benjamin Goddard , John Pearson