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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 study an evolutionary system of Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy type including mass source and transport effects. The system may arise in a number of physical situations related to phase separation phenomena with convection, with the main and most…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Giulio Schimperna

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

Hyperuniform structures are disordered, correlated systems in which density fluctuations are suppressed at large scales. Such a property generalizes the concept of order in patterns and is relevant across diverse physical systems. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Abel H. G. Milor , Otto Sumray , Heather A. Harrington , Axel Voigt , Marco Salvalaglio

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a classic model of phase separation in binary mixtures that exhibits spontaneous coarsening of the phases. We study the Cahn--Hilliard equation with an imposed advection term in order to model the stirring and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this paper, a fractional step lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to model two-phase flows with large density differences by solving Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.In order to maintain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Chunhua Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Yibao Li

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

Ultrafast laser irradiation can induce spontaneous self-organization of surfaces into dissipative structures with nanoscale reliefs. These surface patterns emerge from symmetry-breaking dynamical processes that occur in…

Many systems exhibit a phase where the order parameter is spatially modulated. These patterns can be the result of a frustration caused by the competition between interaction forces with opposite effects. In all models with local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 Simon Villain-Guillot

Computational modeling of pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems is a fundamental tool for studying complex phenomena in biology, chemistry, materials science and engineering. The pursuit for theoretical descriptions of some among…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-02-08 D. L. Coelho , E. Vitral , J. Pontes , N. Mangiavacchi

In this work, we develop a fully implicit Hybrid High-Order algorithm for the Cahn-Hilliard problem in mixed form. The space discretization hinges on local reconstruction operators from hybrid polynomial unknowns at elements and faces. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Florent Chave , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Fabien Marche , Franck Pigeonneau

A phase-field model for two-phase immiscible, incompressible porous media flow with surface tension effects is considered. The pore-scale model consists of a strongly coupled system of Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations. The fluids are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

The influence of immobile filler particles (spheres, fibers, platelets) on polymer blend phase separation is investigated computationally using a generalization of the Cahn-Hilliard-Cook (CHC) model. Simulation shows that the selective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin P. Lee , Jack F. Douglas , Sharon C. Glotzer

We study the Swift-Hohenberg equation - a paradigm model for pattern formation - with "large" spatially periodic coefficients and find a Turing bifurcation that generates patterns whose leading order form is a Bloch wave modulated by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-30 Jolien Kamphuis , Martina Chirilus-Bruckner

This paper develops and analyzes some fully discrete mixed finite element methods for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with gradient-type multiplicative noise that is white in time and correlated in space. The stochastic Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

The Cahn-Hilliard model with reaction terms can lead to situations in which no coarsening is taking place and, in contrast, growth and division of droplets occur which all do not grow larger than a certain size. This phenomenon has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

In this work, we propose a structure-preserving discretisation for the recently studied Cahn-Hilliard-Biot system using conforming finite elements in space and problem-adapted explicit-implicit Euler time integration. We prove that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Aaron Brunk , Marvin Fritz

Accurately modeling the dynamics of high-density ratio ($\mathcal{O}(10^5)$) two-phase flows is important for many material science and manufacturing applications. This work considers numerical simulations of molten metal oscillations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Rabeh , Makrand A. Khanwale , John J. Lee , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

The Cahn--Hilliard equations are a versatile model for describing the evolution of complex morphologies. In this paper we present a computational pipeline for the numerical solution of a ternary phase-field model for describing the…