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We present a fully-coupled, implicit-in-time framework for solving a thermodynamically-consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system that models two-phase flows. In this work, we extend the block iterative method presented in Khanwale et…

In this paper we devise and analyze a mixed finite element method for a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a non-steady Darcy-Stokes flow that models phase separation and coupled fluid flow in immiscible binary fluids and diblock…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Amanda E. Diegel , Xiaobing H. Feng , Steven M. Wise

Degenerate Cahn-Hilliard phase-field models provide a robust approximation of surface-diffusion-driven interface motion without explicit front tracking. In computations, however, the geometric volume enclosed by the interface -- the region…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Josef Musil

In this paper, we study a system of three evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded, linear operators having compact resolvents. This system constitutes a generalization of a phase field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

A novel numerical scheme including time and spatial discretization is offered for coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes governing equation sys-tem in this paper. Variable densities and viscosities are considered in the nu-merical scheme.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Xiaoyu Feng , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

Self-organization and nonequilibrium phase transitions are well known to occur in two- and three- dimensional dissipative systems. Here, instead, we provide numerical evidence that these phenomena also occur in a one-dimensional Hamiltonian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-31 Jiao Wang , Giulio Casati

We consider the problem of heat transport by vibrational modes (conduction) between Langevin thermostats connected by a central device. The latter is anharmonic and can be subject to large temperature differences and thus be out of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Keivan Esfarjani

An asymptotic analysis for a system with equation and dynamic boundary condition of Cahn-Hilliard type is carried out as the coefficient of the surface diffusion acting on the phase variable tends to 0, thus obtaining a forward-backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao , Luca Scarpa

Hamiltonian mechanics can be used to constrain temperature simultaneously with energy. We illustrate the interesting situations that develop when two different temperatures are imposed within a composite Hamiltonian system. The model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

We apply advanced methods of control theory to open quantum systems and we determine finite-time processes which are optimal with respect to thermodynamic performances. General properties and necessary conditions characterizing optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

We analyze a phase field model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system, ruling the evolution of the tumor mass, coupled with an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for a chemical species acting as a nutrient. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider the scalar sector of the most general renormalizable two-Higgs-doublet model at non-zero temperature. We calculate the largest finite temperature corrections to the free-energy density and study thermal evolution of the ground…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 I. P. Ivanov

In this paper a generalization of the Cahn-Hilliard theory of binary liquids is presented for multi-component incompressible liquid mixtures. First, a thermodynamically consistent convection-diffusion type dynamics is derived on the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-03 Gyula I. Toth , Mojdeh Zarifi , Bjorn Kvamme

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

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 article is concerned with the internal feedback stabilization of the phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type, modeling the phase separation in a binary mixture. Under suitable assumptions on an arbitrarily fixed stationary solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Viorel Barbu , Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Gabriela Marinoschi

A proof of optimal-order error estimates is given for the full discretization of the bulk--surface Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The numerical method combines a linear bulk--surface finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Nils Bullerjahn

We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d = 2, 3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli

It is well known that the exponential time differencing (ETD) method has been successfully applied to the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation with double well potential. However, this numerical method can not be extended to the Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yingying Wang , Xiao Li , Zhengru Zhang

In this paper, we consider a non-isothermal electrokinetic model, which is derived from the Energetic Variational Approach. The charge transport is described through the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with variable temperature, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Chia-Yu Hsieh , Tai-Chia Lin , Chun Liu , Pei Liu