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We present and analyze an unconditionally energy stable and convergent finite difference scheme for the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation. One key difficulty associated with the energy stability is based on the fact that one nonlinear…

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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…

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In this paper an iterative minimization method is proposed to approximate the minimizer to the double-well energy functional arising in the phase-field theory. The method is based on a quadratic functional posed over a nonempty closed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Qian Zhang , Long Chen , Yifeng Xu

The space fractional Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model is more adequate and accurate in the description of the formation and phase change mechanism than the classical Cahn-Hilliard model. In this article, we propose a temporal second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Yong-Liang Zhao , Meng Li , Alexander Ostermann , Xian-Ming Gu

Efficient and unconditionally stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and analysis an efficient stabilized linear Crank-Nicolson scheme for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna

We present an extension of the Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard system which incorporates a geometrically linear ansatz for the elastic energy of the precipitates. The model contains both the elastic Allen-Cahn system and the elastic Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Thomas Blesgen , Anja Schlömerkemper

We propose a new numerical method to solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with non-linear wetting boundary conditions. We show that the method is mass-conservative and that the discrete solution satisfies a discrete energy law similar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-21 B. Aymard , U. Vaes , M. Pradas , S. Kalliadasis

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. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

How to develop efficient numerical schemes while preserving the energy stability at the discrete level is a challenging issue for the three component Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model. In this paper, we develop first and second order temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao , Qi Wang , Jie Shen

Efficient and energy stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for the study of nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and study two linearly stabilized second order semi-implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We present a finite-volume based numerical scheme for a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation which combines ideas from recent numerical schemes for gradient flow equations and nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations. The equation of interest is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Rainey Lyons , Grigor Nika , Adrian Muntean

In this paper we study a distributed control problem for a phase-field system of conserved type with a possibly singular potential. We mainly handle two cases: the case of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard type dynamics for the phase variable in case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 P. Colli , G. Gilardi , G. Marinoschi , E. Rocca

In this paper, the mathematical properties and numerical discretizations of multiphase models that simulate the phase separation of an $N$-component mixture are studied. For the general choice of phase variables, the unisolvent property of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation that models phase separation process of binary mixtures involving nontrivial boundary interactions in a bounded domain with non-permeable wall. The system is characterized by certain dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Takeshi Fukao , Hao Wu

The mathematical analysis of diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows has attracted significant attention due to their ability to capture complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified, energetically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper, we propose a variational Lagrangian scheme for a modified phase-field model, which can compute the equilibrium states for the original Allen-Cahn type model. Our discretization is based on a prescribed energy-dissipation law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang

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

A nonisothermal phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type is introduced and analyzed mathematically. The system constitutes an extension of the classical Caginalp model for nonisothermal phase transitions with a conserved order parameter. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper, we present several unconditionally energy-stable invariant energy quadratization (IEQ) finite element methods (FEMs) with linear, first- and second-order accuracy for solving both the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the Allen-Cahn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Yaoyao Chen , Hailiang Liu , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin