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We analyze a Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for viscous incompressible two-phase flows where the mechanisms of chemotaxis, active transport and reaction are taken into account. The evolution system couples the Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jingning He , Hao Wu

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

We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierluigi Colli , Patrik Knopf , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

This paper is concerned with a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of Cahn-Hilliard type, which is a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper deals with the local existence and uniqueness results for the solution of fractional differential equations with Hilfer-Hadamrd fractional derivative. Using Picard's approximations and generalizing the restrictive conditions…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-02 D B Dhaigude , Sandeep P Bhairat

We prove existence of weak solutions and weak-strong uniqueness for a mathematical model which couples the evolution of a phase-parameter $\varphi$ satisfying a Cahn-Hilliard type relation with the one of an additional variable $\sigma$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Robert Lasarzik , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

The aim of this paper is to draw attention to an interesting semilinear parabolic equation that arose when describing the chaotic dynamics of a polymer molecule in a liquid. This equation is nonlocal in time and contains a term, called the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Victor N. Starovoitov

The aim of this paper is to study the metastable properties of the solutions to a hyperbolic relaxation of the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension, subject to either Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions. To perform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

We formulate singular classical theories without involving constraints. Applying the action principle for the action (27) we develop a partial (in the sense that not all velocities are transformed to momenta) Hamiltonian formalism in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Steven Duplij

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

A generalized Cahn-Hilliard model in a bounded interval of the real line with no-flux boundary conditions is considered. The label "generalized" refers to the fact that we consider a concentration dependent mobility, the $p$-Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Raffaele Folino , Luis Fernando Lopez Rios , Marta Strani

In this paper, we consider initial-boundary value problems for two-component nonlinear systems of time-fractional diffusion equations with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition and non-negative initial values. The main results are the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Dian Feng , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider a phase-field model where the internal energy depends on the order parameter in a nonlocal way. Therefore, the resulting system consists of the energy balance equation coupled with a nonlinear and nonlocal ODE for the order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Maurizio Grasselli , Giulio Schimperna

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

An advective Cahn-Hilliard model motivated by thin film formation is studied in this paper. The one-dimensional evolution equation under consideration includes a transport term, whose presence prevents from identifying a gradient flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Marco Bonacini , Elisa Davoli , Marco Morandotti

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Liu , Shuting Gu

A typical phase field approach for describing phase separation and coarsening phenomena in alloys is the Cahn-Hilliard model. This model has been generalized to the so-called Cahn-Larch\'e system by combining it with elasticity to capture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Christian Heinemann , Christiane Kraus

We present a long-wavelength approximation to the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard equations to describe phase separation in thin films. The equations we derive underscore the coupled behaviour of free-surface variations and phase separation. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We propose an active Cahn-Hilliard theory for the dynamics of a new type of phase transition where the driving force is not the direct interactions between the two separating components, but their active sorting by a third polar species.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-02 Sudipta Pattanayak , Alfredo Sciortino , Laurent Blanchoin , Manuel Théry , Jean-Francois Joanny

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang