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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

Dynamic phenomena in social and biological sciences can often be modeled by employing reaction-diffusion equations. When addressing the control of these modes, from a mathematical viewpoint one of the main challenges is that, because of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Domènec Ruiz-Balet , Enrique Zuazua

In this article we propose a unified framework in order to study reaction-diffusion systems containing self- and cross-diffusion using a free energy approach. This framework naturally leads to the formulation of an energy law, and to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Benjamin Aymard

The system of N particles moving on a circle and interacting via a global repulsive cosine interaction is well known to display spatially inhomogeneous structures of extraordinary stability starting from certain low energy initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Leyvraz , M. -C. Firpo , S. Ruffo

Aggregation processes with an arbitrary number of conserved quantities are investigated. On the mean-field level, an exact solution for the size distribution is obtained. The asymptotic form of this solution exhibits nontrivial ``double''…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. L. Krapivsky , E. Ben-Naim

Intracellular protein patterns govern essential cellular functions by dynamically redistributing proteins between membrane-bound and cytosolic states, conserving their total numbers. This review presents a theoretical framework for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erwin Frey , Henrik Weyer

Building upon the classical chemo-mechanical theory of Larch{\'e} and Cahn for equilibrium, numerous studies have investigated the transport of species in solids, with or without trapping phenomena. In most applications -- such as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Alberto Salvadori , Mattia Serpelloni , Robert M. McMeeking

Materials undergoing both phase separation and chemical reactions (defined here as all processes that change particle type or number) form an important class of non-equilibrium systems. Examples range from suspensions of self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-21 Yuting I. Li , Michael E. Cates

In this work, we investigate a reaction-diffusion system in which both species are influenced by self-diffusion. Due to Hopf's boundary lemma, we obtain the boundedness of the classical solution of the system. By considering a particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Ningning Zhu , Dongpo Hu , Huili Bi

Recent work on stochastic interacting particle systems with two particle species (or single-species systems with kinematic constraints) has demonstrated the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking, long-range order and phase coexistence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Gunter M. Schütz

We develop a microscopic theory for reaction-difusion (R-D) processes based on a generalization of Einstein's master equation with a reactive term and we show how the mean field formulation leads to a generalized R-D equation with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko , Christopher Lutsko

In this article we study the asymptotic behaviour of the solution of the three species chemical reaction-diffusion model with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary condition in a perforated domain. We investigate how the mass inflow at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Saumyajit Das , Kshitij Sinha

We consider a reaction-diffusion system for two densities lying in adjacent domains of $\mathbb{R}^N$. We treat two configurations: either a cylinder and its complement, or two half-spaces. Diffusion and reaction heterogeneities for the two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Henri Berestycki , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tellini

A multidimensional model of biofilm growth present in the supernatant water of a Slow Sand Filter is derived. The multiphase model, consisting of solid and liquid phases, is written as a convection-reaction system with a Cahn-Hilliard-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Julio Careaga , Stefan Diehl , Jaime Manríquez

Phase separation in complex systems is a ubiquitous phenomenon. While simple theories predict coarsening until only macroscopically large phases remain, concrete models often exhibit patterns with finite length scales. To unify such models,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Filipe C. Thewes , Yicheng Qiang , Oliver W. Paulin , David Zwicker

Using the fact that extremum of variation of generalized action can lead to the fractional dynamics in the case of systems with long-range interaction and long-term memory function, we consider two different applications of the action…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vasily E. Tarasov , George M. Zaslavsky

Q-conditional symmetries (nonclassical symmetries) for a general class of two-component reaction-diffusion systems with constant diffusivities are studied. Using the recently introduced notion of Q-conditional symmetries of the first type…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych

Chemical activity is known to affect phase coexistence and coarsening in liquid mixtures, most commonly through reaction-induced changes of intermolecular interactions. Here, we analyze a scenario in which chemical reactions regulate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Florian Raßhofer , Erwin Frey

Diffusion-coagulation can be simply described by a dynamic where particles perform a random walk on a lattice and coalesce with probability unity when meeting on the same site. Such processes display non-equilibrium properties with strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Turban , J. -Y. Fortin

In reaction-diffusion models of annihilation reactions in low dimensions, single-particle dynamics provides a bottleneck for reactions, leading to an anomalously slow approach to the empty state. Here, we construct a reaction model with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-26 Enrique Rozas Garcia , Alfred Weddig Karlsson , Johannes Hofmann