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We consider the stabilisation of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation towards a given trajectory by means of a finite-dimensional static output feedback mechanism. Exponential stabilisation of the controlled state around the target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Herbert Egger , Marvin Fritz , Karl Kunisch , Sérgio S. Rodrigues

We introduce a new measure of coarseness for characterizing phase separation processes such as those described by Cahn--Hilliard equations. An advantage of our measure is that it remains consistent throughout the evolution, including for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

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

We study travelling-wave spatially periodic solutions of a forced Cahn-Hilliard equation. This is a model for phase separation of a binary mixture, subject to external forcing. We look at arbitrary values of the mean mixture concentration,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Lennon O'Naraigh

P. Galenko et al. proposed a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation to model rapid spinodal decomposition in non-equilibrium phase separation processes. This equation contains an inertial term which causes the loss of any regularizing effect on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Maurizio Grasselli , Giulio Schimperna , Sergey Zelik

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation with kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary conditions that describe possible short-range interactions between the binary mixture and the solid boundary. In the presence of surface diffusion on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which models phase separation in binary fluids, on the two-dimen\-sional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow, satisfying certain conditions and of sufficiently large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Anna L. Mazzucato , Xiaoqian Xu

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard and the conserved Allen-Cahn equations with logarithmic type potential and conservative noise in a periodic domain. These features ensure that the order parameter takes its values in the physical range and,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Scarpa

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

This paper deals with an initial and boundary value problem for a system coupling equation and boundary condition both of Cahn-Hilliard type; an additional convective term with a forced velocity field, which could act as a control on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper, we consider the global well-posedness and time-decay rates of solution to the Cauchy problem for 3D convective Cahn-Hilliard equation with double-well potential via a refined pure energy method. In particular, the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Xiaopeng Zhao

This paper is concerned with well-posedness of the Cahn-Hilliard equation subject to a class of new dynamic boundary conditions. The system was recently derived in Liu-Wu (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 233 (2019), 167-247) via an energetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao , Hao Wu

We study the possible regularization of collision solutions for one centre problems with a weak singularity. In the case of logarithmic singularities, we consider the method of regularization via smoothing of the potential. With this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-05-12 Castelli Roberto , Terracini Susanna

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

We obtain conditions for the differentiability of weak solutions for a second-order uniformly elliptic equation in divergence form with a homogeneous co-normal boundary condition. The modulus of continuity for the coefficients is assumed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Robert McOwen , Vladimir Maz'ya

The aim of this paper is to study the metastable properties of the solutions to a hyperbolic relaxation of the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension, subject to either Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions. To perform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

We consider a class of nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a nonlocal kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary condition. This diffuse interface model describes phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

We consider a Strang-type second order operator-splitting discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We introduce a new theoretical framework and prove uniform energy stability of the numerical solution and persistence of all higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan

This work explores the solvability of a sixth-order Cahn--Hilliard equation with an inertial term, which serves as a relaxation of a higher-order variant of the classical Cahn--Hilliard equation. The equation includes a source term that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi

In the present paper, we investigate the regularity and symmetry properties of weak solutions to semilinear elliptic equations which are locally stable.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Louis Dupaigne , Alberto Farina