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We study a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids coupling the Navier--Stokes system with a convective nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation in two dimensions of space. We apply recently proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Sergio Frigeri , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

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 present and analyze finite difference numerical schemes for the Allen Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic Flory Huggins energy potential. Both the first order and second order accurate temporal algorithms are considered. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Wenbin Chen , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Steven M. Wise

We analyze a fully discrete finite element numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes-Darcy system that models two-phase flows in coupled free flow and porous media. To avoid a well-known difficulty associated with the coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Wenbin Chen , Daozhi Han , Cheng Wang , Shufen Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Yichao Zhang

The behavior of energy minimizers at the boundary of the domain is of great importance in the Van de Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory for fluid-fluid phase transitions, since it describes the effect of the container walls on the configuration of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Galvao-Sousa

In this paper, we investigate optimal boundary control problems for Cahn-Hilliard variational inequalities with a dynamic boundary condition involving double obstacle potentials and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The cost functional is of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Pierluigi Colli , M. Hassan Farshbaf-Shaker , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics can provide strong advantages when compared to more standard equilibrium situations. Here, we present a general framework to study its application to concrete problems, which is valid also beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Qiongyuan Wu , Matteo Carlesso

Spontaneous transitions between non-equilibrium patterns are characterised by hydrodynamic calculations of ideal straight roll steady state heat convection. The calculations are tested quantitatively against existing experimental data. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-28 Phil Attard

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear heat equation with bilinear control-state terms and subject to control and state constraints. The state constraints are of integral type, the integral being with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 M. Soledad Aronna , J. -Frédéric Bonnans , Axel Kröner

The phenomenology from the time of the quench to the asymptotic behavior in the phase-ordering kinetics of a system with conserved order parameter is investigated in the Bray-Humayun model and in the Cahn-Hilliard-Cook model. From the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Claudio Castellano , Marco Zannetti

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

We extend the finite-temperature Keldysh non-equilibrium coupled cluster theory (Keldysh-CC) [{\it J. Chem. Theory Comput.} \textbf{2019}, 15, 6137-6253] to include a time-dependent orbital basis. When chosen to minimize the action, such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ruojing Peng , Alec F. White , Huanchen Zhai , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

We study the nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model with thermal noise as a prototypical example of a generic class of non-Hermitian stochastic field theories, analyzed in two companion papers [Suchanek, Kroy, Loos, ArXiv:2303.16701 (2023);…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-08 Thomas Suchanek , Klaus Kroy , Sarah A. M. Loos

We provide a detailed discussion of out-of-equilibrium phase transitions in the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model in the framework of Lynden-Bell's statistical theory of the Vlasov equation. For two-levels initial conditions, the caloric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. Staniscia , P. H. Chavanis , G. De Ninno

The asymptotic behavior of an anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard functional with prescribed mass and Dirichlet boundary condition is studied when the parameter epsilon that determines the width of the transition layers tends to zero. The double-well…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Gianni Dal Maso , Irene Fonseca , Giovanni Leoni

We propose an active Cahn-Hilliard theory for the dynamics of a new type of phase transition where the driving force is not the direct interactions between the two separating components, but their active sorting by a third polar species.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-02 Sudipta Pattanayak , Alfredo Sciortino , Laurent Blanchoin , Manuel Théry , Jean-Francois Joanny

Recent studies have explored finite-time dissipation-minimizing protocols for stochastic thermodynamic systems driven arbitrarily far from equilibrium, when granted full external control to drive the system. However, in both simulation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-27 Adrianne Zhong , Michael R. DeWeese

In the present paper, we present and solve the sliding mode control (SMC) problem for a second-order generalization of the Caginalp phase-field system. This generalization, inspired by the theories developed by Green and Naghdi on one side,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Pierluigi Colli , Davide Manini

In this paper general dynamic equations describing the time evolution of isothermal quasi-incompressible multicomponent liquids are derived in the framework of the classical Ginzburg-Landau theory of first order phase transformations. Based…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Gyula I. Toth