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The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach of Shen et al. (2018), which presents a novel way to discretize a large class of gradient flows, has been extended and improved by many authors for general dissipative systems. In this work we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Kei Fong Lam , Ru Wang

The convex-concave splitting discretization of the Allen-Cahn is easy to implement and guaranteed to be energy decreasing even for large time-steps. We analyze the time-stepping scheme for a large class of potentials which includes the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Patrick Dondl , Akwum Onwunta , Ludwig Striet , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We extend the invariant manifold method for analyzing the asymptotics of dissipative partial differential equations on unbounded spatial domains to treat equations in which the linear part has order greater than two. One important example…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -P. Eckmann , C. E. Wayne

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…

We consider the parallel-in-time solution of scalar nonlinear conservation laws in one spatial dimension. The equations are discretized in space with a conservative finite-volume method using weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 O. A. Krzysik , H. De Sterck , R. D. Falgout , J. B. Schroder

We consider the numerical approximation of a nonlinear system of partial differential equations modeling magnetostriction in the small-strain regime consisting of the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation for the magnetization and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Martin Kružík , Hywel Normington , Michele Ruggeri

We study a diffuse-interface model for thermally driven phase separation in viscous incompressible mixtures. The system couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the order parameter with a Stokes subsystem for the velocity-pressure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Maria Deliyianni , Boris Muha , Andrej Novak

We propose a hydridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The temporal discretization can be based on either the backward Euler method or the convex-splitting method. We show that the fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Gang Chen , Daozhi Han , John Singler , Yangwen Zhang

We prove existence of weak solutions to a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Jonas Haselböck

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving approximation of the non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equation using conforming finite elements for the spatial discretization and a problem-specific mixed explicit-implicit approach for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Dennis Höhn , Mária Lukáčová-Medvidová

A typical phase field approach for describing phase separation and coarsening phenomena in alloys is the Cahn-Hilliard model. This model has been generalized to the so-called Cahn-Larch\'e system by combining it with elasticity to capture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Christian Heinemann , Christiane Kraus

A common paradigm in phase-field models with singular potentials is that global-in-time weak solutions converge to a single equilibrium only after undergoing asymptotic regularization. However, in arXiv:2510.17296 we introduced a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

We consider a dynamical elasto-plasticity system with Kelvin--Voigt viscosity and linear kinematic hardening of Melan--Prager type. The model is formulated in a variational framework in which a constraint set for the stress evolves in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Yoshiho Akagawa , Kazunori Matsui

In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Minqiang Xu , Hailong Guo , Qingsong Zou

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

The isentropic compressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations is a system of fourth-order partial differential equations that model the evolution of some binary fluids under convection. The purpose of this paper is the design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Pep Mulet

This paper deals with time stepping schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with three different types of dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed schemes of first and second order are mass-conservative and energy-dissipative and -- as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. Altmann , C. Zimmer

We investigate discretization strategies for a recently introduced class of energy-based models. The model class encompasses classical port-Hamiltonian systems, generalized gradient flows, and certain systems with algebraic constraints. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Robert Altmann , Attila Karsai , Philipp Schulze

We present a continuous finite element method for some examples of fully nonlinear elliptic equation. A key tool is the discretisation proposed in Lakkis & Pryer (2011, SISC) allowing us to work directly on the strong form of a linear PDE.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

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