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In this note, we study the optimal control of a nonisothermal phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type that constitutes an extension of the classical Caginalp model for nonisothermal phase transitions with a conserved order parameter. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

We propose a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for the flow of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density in a bounded domain. We prove the well-posedness of local-in-time strong solutions by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Alice Marveggio , Andrea Poiatti

We present a phase-field model for the dynamics of the interface between two inmiscible fluids with arbitrary viscosity contrast in a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. With asymptotic matching techniques we check the model to yield the right…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Folch , J. Casademunt , A. Hernandez-Machado , L. Ramirez-Piscina

This article is devoted to the study of certain models for phase transitions involving nonlocal energies. A first part is concerned with to the asymptotic analysis of a system of fractional elliptic equations of Allen-Cahn type as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

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

In this paper, we introduce an interfacial profile-preserving approach for phase field modeling for simulating incompressible two-phase flows. While the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation effectively captures the topological evolution of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Chenglin Jiang , Huanshu Tan

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

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…

A Cahn-Hilliard-Allen-Cahn phase-field model coupled with a heat transfer equation, particularly with full non-diagonal mobility matrices, is studied. After reformulating the problem w.r.t. the inverse of temperature, we proposed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Aaron Brunk , Oliver Habrich , Timileyin David Oyedeji , Yangyiwei Yang , Bai-Xiang Xu

Phase field models frequently provide insight to phase transitions, and are robust numerical tools to solve free boundary problems corresponding to the motion of interfaces. A body of prior literature suggests that interface motion via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 Alpha A Lee , Andreas Münch , Endre Süli

We study a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard model for a multicomponent mixture with cross-diffusion effects and degenerate mobility. The nonlocality is described by means of a symmetric singular kernel. We define a notion of weak solution adapted to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Elisa Davoli , Greta Marino , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

In this work, we extend a phase-field approach for pressurized fractures to non-isothermal settings. Specifically, the pressure and the temperature are given quantities and the emphasis is on the correct modeling of the interface laws…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Nima Noii , Thomas Wick

We study a diffusion model of phase field type, consisting of a system of two partial differential equations encoding the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two unknowns are the order parameter and the chemical potential. By a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Juergen Sprekels

We study the sharp interface limit and well-posedness of a phase field model for self-climb of prismatic dislocation loops in periodic settings. The model is set up in a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn framework featured with degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Xiaohua Niu , Xiaodong Yan

In this work, we present a variational and quantitative phase-field model for non-isothermal sintering processes. The model is derived via an extended non-diagonal phase-field model. The model evolution equations have naturally…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-10 Timileyin David Oyedeji , Yangyiwei Yang , Herbert Egger , Bai-Xiang Xu

Room temperature ionic liquids are attractive to numerous applications and particularly, to renewable energy devices. As solvent free electrolytes, they demonstrate a paramount connection between the material morphology and Coulombic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Nir Gavish , Arik Yochelis

We consider the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids in the presence of a solid phase that undergoes changes in time due to precipitation and dissolution effects. Based on a seminal sharp interface model a phase field approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Christian Rohde , Lars von Wolff

We introduce a new phase-field model which allows for simulation of incoherent solid/solid transformations. Contrary to previous models which impose coherency at the interface, the zero shear-stress condition characteristic of incoherent…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jerome Paret

Fully nonlinear numerical simulation of two dimensional Faraday waves between two incompressible and immiscible fluids is performed by adopting the phase-field method with the Cahn-Hilliard equation due to Jacqmin (1999) [J. Comput. Phys.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-21 Kentaro Takagi , Takeshi Matsumoto