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This paper studies finite element approximations of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with gradient-type multiplicative noises that are white in time and correlated in space. The sharp interface limit as the parameter $\epsilon \rightarrow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

This paper is concerned with the motion of a time dependent hypersurface that evolves by mean curvature flow with a a volume constraint. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the well known nonlocal Allen--Cahn equation. Here we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Elie Bretin , Morgan Brassel

This paper presents an existence result for the anisotropic Cahn--Hilliard equation characterized by a potentially concentration-dependent degenerate mobility taking into account an anisotropic energy. The model allows for the degeneracy of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

We are concerned with the sharp interface limit for an incompressible Navier-Stokes and Allen-Cahn coupled system in this paper. When the thickness of the diffuse interfacial zone, which is parameterized by $\varepsilon$, goes to zero, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Song Jiang , Xiangxiang Su , Feng Xie

We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sara Albert-Niclòs , Esther Cabezas-Rivas

Phase-field models such as the Allen-Cahn equation may give rise to the formation and evolution of geometric shapes, a phenomenon that may be analyzed rigorously in suitable scaling regimes. In its sharp-interface limit, the vectorial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Julian Fischer , Alice Marveggio

In this work, we study a matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation with a Saint Venant-Kirchhoff potential $F(\mathbf{A})=\frac{1}{4}\|\mathbf{A}\mathbf{A}^\top-\mathbf{I}\|^2$. Our approach employs the modulated energy method together with weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Xingyu Wang

An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

We consider a system of two PDEs arising in modeling of motility of eukariotic cells on substrates. This system consists of the Allen-Cahn equation for the scalar phase field function coupled with another vectorial parabolic equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Leonid Berlyand , Volodymyr Rybalko , Mykhailo Potomkin

We consider the sharp interface limit of a coupled Stokes/Allen-Cahn system, when a parameter $\varepsilon>0$ that is proportional to the thickness of the diffuse interface tends to zero, in a two dimensional bounded domain. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Helmut Abels , YuNing Liu

We consider an Allen-Cahn equation with nonlinear diffusion, motivated by the study of the scaling limit of certain interacting particle systems. We investigate its singular limit and show the generation and propagation of an interface in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Perla El Kettani , Tadahisa Funaki , Danielle Hilhorst , Hyunjoon Park , Sunder Sethuraman

Motion by (weighted) mean curvature is a geometric evolution law for surfaces, representing steepest descent with respect to (an)isotropic surface energy. It has been proposed that this motion could be computed by solving the analogous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Pedro M. Girão , Robert V. Kohn

We study the gradient flow of the Allen-Cahn equation with fixed boundary contact angle in Euclidean domains for initial data with bounded energy. Under general assumptions, we establish both interior and boundary convergence properties for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Kobe Marshall-Stevens , Mayu Takada , Yoshihiro Tonegawa , Myles Workman

We prove rigorously the convergence of the Cahn-Larch\'e system, which is a Cahn-Hilliard system coupled with the system of linearized elasticity, to a modified Hele-Shaw problem as long as a classical solution of the latter system exists.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Helmut Abels , Stefan Schaubeck

As popular approximations to sharp-interface models, the Cahn-Hilliard type phase-field models are usually used to simulate interface dynamics with volume conservation. However, the convergence rate of the volume enclosed by the interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Zeyu Zhou , Wei Jiang , Tiezheng Qian , Zhen Zhang

A description of the short time behavior of solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation with a smoothened additive noise is presented. The key result is that in the sharp interface limit solutions move according to motion by mean curvature with an…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Hendrik Weber

This paper addresses the approximation of the mean curvature flow of thin structures for which classical phase field methods are not suitable. By thin structures, we mean surfaces that are not domain boundaries, typically higher codimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Elie Bretin , Chih-Kang Huang , Simon Masnou

We extend the doubly degenerate Cahn-Hilliard (DDCH) models for isotropic surface diffusion, which yield more accurate approximations than classical degenerate Cahn-Hilliard (DCH) models, to the anisotropic case. We consider both weak and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Marco Salvalaglio , Maximilian Selch , Axel Voigt , Steven M. Wise

We study the singular limit of a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic reaction-diffusion equation. We use a Finsler metric related to the anisotropic diffusion term and work in relative geometry. We prove a weak comparison principle and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Matthieu Alfaro , Harald Garcke , Danielle Hilhorst , Hiroshi Matano , Reiner Schatzle

We study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 David O'Connor , Bjorn Stinner