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We consider the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid that completely covers a smooth, compact and embedded hypersurface $\Sigma$ without boundary and flows along $\Sigma$. Local-in-time well-posedness is established in the framework of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

Binary-fluid flows can be modeled using the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which represent the boundary between the fluid constituents by a diffuse interface. The diffuse-interface model allows for complex geometries and topological…

We consider a class of one dimensional compressible systems with degenerate diffusion coefficients. We establish the fact that the solutions remain smooth as long as the diffusion coefficients do not vanish, and give local and global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Peter Constantin , Theodore D. Drivas , Huy Q. Nguyen , Federico Pasqualotto

The evolution of two partially miscible, nonhomogeneous, incompressible viscous fluids of non-Newtonian type, can be governed by the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system. In the present work, we prove the global existence of weak solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Fang Li , Duan Xingyu , Guo Zhenhua

The stationary Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard equations are considered, governing the motion of a compressible, two-phase fluid mixture with a diffuse interface. The free energy density in this paper has a singular logarithmic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhilei Liang , Sen Liu , Jiangyu Shuai , Dehua Wang

We study the long-time dynamics of a bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard system describing phase separation processes with bulk-surface interaction. The presence of convection terms leads to a non-autonomous dynamical system and prevents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Poiatti , Jonas Stange , Sema Yayla

To describe highly heterogeneous systems using the Cahn-Hilliard equation, the standard form of the thermodynamic potential with a constant coefficient in the gradient term and a polynomial of the fourth degree may not be sufficient. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-20 P. O. Mchedlov-Petrosyan , L. N. Davydov , O. A. Osmaev

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We present a model for the morphology evolution of printed organic solar cells which occurs during the drying of a mixture of polymer, the non-fullerene acceptor and the solvent. Our model uses a phase field approach coupled to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Pelin Çiloğlu , Carmen Tretmans , Roland Herzog , Jan-F. Pietschmann , Martin Stoll

We consider a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids with matched constant densities. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Elisabetta Rocca

Recently the combination of the well-known Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn equations was used to describe surface processes, such as simultaneous adsorption/desorption and surface diffusion. In the present paper we have considered the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 P. O. Mchedlov-Petrosyan , L. N. Davydov

We construct solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation whose nodal set converges to a given constant mean curvature hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Pacard , Manuel Ritoré

We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem in the Eulerian, phase-field formulation. The problem is described using the Navier--Stokes equations for a viscous, incompressible fluid, coupled with the incompressible hyperelasticity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Francis R. A. Aznaran , Martina Bukač , Boris Muha

This work presents a stabilized finite element formulation of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) surface theory for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving manifolds developed in Sauer (2025). The formulation is physically frame-invariant,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-08 Roger A. Sauer

In this paper, we consider the almost sure well-posedness of the Cauchy problem to the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equation with a randomization initial data on a torus $\mathbb{T}^3$. First, we prove the local existence and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Zhaoyang Qiu , Huaqiao Wang

We study an initial-boundary value problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system with non-constant density proposed by Abels, Garcke and Gr\"{u}n in 2012. This model arises in the diffuse interface theory for binary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Giorgini

The isentropic compressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations is a system of fourth-order partial differential equations that model the evolution of some binary fluids under convection. The purpose of this paper is the design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Pep Mulet

We consider the classical initial and boundary value problem for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with non-degenerate mobility and singular (e.g., logarithmic) potential. We prove that any weak solution converges to a single equilibrium using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

We consider a saturated porous medium in the regime of solid-fluid segregation under an applied pressure on the solid constituent. We prove that, depending on the dissipation mechanism, the dynamics is described either by a Cahn-Hilliard or…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Nicoletta Ianiro , Giulio Sciarra

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii