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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

We introduce a fractional variant of the Cahn-Hilliard equation settled in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $R^N$ and complemented with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions of solid type (i.e., imposed in the entire complement of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Goro Akagi , Giulio Schimperna , Antonio Segatti

In this paper, we propose a hybrid collocation method based on finite difference and Haar wavelets to solve nonlocal hyperbolic partial differential equations. Developing an efficient and accurate numerical method to solve such problem is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Gopal Priyadarshi , Abdul Halim

We consider linear boundary value problems for higher-order parameter-elliptic equations, where the boundary data do not belong to the classical trace spaces. We employ a class of Sobolev spaces of mixed smoothness that admits a generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Robert Denk , David Ploß , Sophia Rau , Jörg Seiler

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with hyperbolic relaxation. This type of equations processes energy-dissipative structure. The main challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

The weak formulation of parabolic problems with dynamic boundary conditions is rewritten in form of a partial differential-algebraic equation. More precisely, we consider two dynamic equations with a coupling condition on the boundary. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Robert Altmann

We present a Hilbert space perspective to homogenization of standard linear evolutionary boundary value problems in mathematical physics and provide a unified treatment for (non-)periodic homogenization problems in thermodynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Marcus Waurick

This paper presents an integral formulation for Helmholtz problems with mixed boundary conditions. Unlike most integral equation techniques for mixed boundary value problems, the proposed method uses a global boundary charge density. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Adrianna Gillman

We consider nonlinear perturbations of the hyperbolic equation in the Hilbert space. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of boundary-value problem for the corresponding equation and iterative procedures for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Pokutnyi Oleksandr

Comparing with the classical local gradient flow and phase field models, the nonlocal models such as nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations equipped with nonlocal diffusion operator can describe more practical phenomena for modeling phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Zhengguang liu , Aijie Cheng , Xiaoli Li

In this paper, we provide a detailed convergence analysis for a first order stabilized linear semi-implicit numerical scheme for the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation, which follows from consistency and stability estimates for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Cheng Wang

In the present work, we address a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a nonlinear diffusive dynamics and possibly containing an additional sixth order term. This model describes the separation properties of oil-water mixtures,…

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

A boundary control problem for the pure Cahn-Hilliard equations with possibly singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions is studied and first-order necessary conditions for optimality are proved. Key words: Cahn-Hilliard equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

Discrete gradient methods are a powerful tool for the time discretization of dynamical systems, since they are structure-preserving regardless of the form of the total energy. In this work, we discuss the application of discrete gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Philipp L. Kinon , Riccardo Morandin , Philipp Schulze

In this work, we study a system of coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations describing the phase separation of a copolymer and a homopolymer blend. The numerical methods we propose are based on suitable combinations of existing schemes for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Mattia Martini , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

In this paper we establish second-order sufficient optimality conditions for a boundary control problem that has been introduced and studied by three of the authors in the preprint arXiv:1407.3916. This control problem regards the viscous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Pierluigi Colli , M. Hassan Farshbaf-Shaker , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper examines the well-posedness of the Stefan problem with a dynamic boundary condition. To show the existence of the weak solution, the original problem is approximated by a limit of an equation and dynamic boundary condition of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Takeshi Fukao

This work uses a linear relaxation method to develop efficient numerical schemes for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations. The L1+-CN formula is used to discretize the fractional derivative, and an auxiliary variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Hui Yu , Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

In this paper we present a new first-order hyperbolic reformulation of the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The model is obtained from the combination of augmented Lagrangian techniques proposed earlier by the authors of this paper, with a classical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Firas Dhaouadi , Michael Dumbser , Sergey Gavrilyuk