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We consider a diffuse interface model that describes the macro- and micro-phase separation processes of a polymer mixture. The resulting system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono type equation endowed with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Bohan Ouyang

We consider a class of six-order Cahn-Hilliard equations with logarithmic type potential. This system is closely connected with some important phase-field models relevant in different applications, for instance, the functionalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Giulio Schimperna , Hao Wu

The global existence of bounded weak solutions to a diffusion system modeling biofilm growth is proven. The equations consist of a reaction-diffusion equation for the substrate concentration and a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard-type equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Christoph Helmer , Ansgar Jüngel

In this paper, we study initial-boundary value problems for the Cahn--Hilliard system with convection and nonconvex potential, where dynamic boundary conditions are assumed for both the associated order parameter and the corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a differential model describing nonisothermal fast phase separation processes taking place in a three-dimensional bounded domain. This model consists of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation characterized by the presence of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maurizio Grasselli , Hana Petzeltova , Giulio Schimperna

We consider a general class of bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard systems with dynamic boundary conditions. In contrast to classical Neumann boundary conditions, the dynamic boundary conditions of Cahn--Hilliard type allow for dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Patrik Knopf , Jonas Stange

In this paper, we study the longtime asymptotic behavior of a phase separation process occurring in a three-dimensional domain containing a fluid flow of given velocity. This process is modeled by a viscous convective Cahn-Hilliard system,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a non-isothermal modified Cahn--Hilliard equation which was previously analyzed by M. Grasselli et al. Such an equation is characterized by an inertial term and a viscous term and it is coupled with a hyperbolic heat equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Cecilia Cavaterra , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation has a wide range of applications in many areas of physics and chemistry. To describe the short-range interaction between the solution and the boundary, scientists have constructed dynamical boundary conditions by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Yunzhuo Guo , Cheng Wang , Zhengru Zhang

We study the Cahn-Hilliard equation with non-degenerate concentration-dependent mobility and logarithmic potential in two dimensions. We show that any weak solution is unique, exhibits propagation of uniform-in-time regularity, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Monica Conti , Pietro Galimberti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini

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

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Patrik Knopf , Kei Fong Lam , Chun Liu , Stefan Metzger

Here we consider a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system characterized by a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with a singular (e.g., logarithmic) potential. This system originates from a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

In this paper the well-posedness of some degenerate parabolic equations with a dynamic boundary condition is considered. To characterize the target degenerate parabolic equation from the Cahn-Hilliard system, the nonlinear term coming from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Takeshi Fukao

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

In this paper we deal with a doubly nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard system, where both an internal constraint on the time derivative of the concentration and a potential for the concentration are introduced. The definition of the chemical potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Luca Scarpa , Giuseppe Tomassetti

We study a phase field model proposed recently in the context of tumour growth. The model couples a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman (CHB) system with a elliptic reaction-diffusion equation for a nutrient. The fluid velocity, governed by the Brinkman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Matthias Ebenbeck , Kei Fong Lam

Cahn-Hilliard models are central for describing the evolution of interfaces in phase separation processes and free boundary problems. In general, they have non-constant and often degenerate mobilities. However, in the latter case, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Catalina Pesce , Andreas Münch

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

Existence and uniqueness are investigated for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels