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A well-known diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. In some recent contributions the standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Pavel Krejčí

The stationary Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard equations are considered, governing the motion of a compressible, two-phase fluid mixture with a diffuse interface. The free energy density in this paper has a singular logarithmic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhilei Liang , Sen Liu , Jiangyu Shuai , Dehua Wang

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

We analyze a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible viscous two-phase flows, incorporating mechanisms such as chemotaxis, active transport, and long-range interactions of Oono's type. The evolution system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jingning He , Hao Wu

We consider the existence of suitable weak solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a non-constant (degenerate) mobility on a class of evolving surfaces. We also show weak-strong uniqueness for the case of a positive mobility function,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

We consider the inertial motion of a system constituted by a rigid body with an interior cavity entirely filled with a viscous incompressible fluid. Navier boundary conditions are imposed on the cavity surface. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Giusy Mazzone , Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett

We study a 3D fluid-rigid body interaction problem. The fluid flow is governed by 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, while the motion of the rigid body is described by a system of ordinary differential equations describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Boris Muha , Šárka Nečasová , Ana Radošević

In this article, we consider the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation driven by multiplicative space-time white noise with diffusion coefficient of sublinear growth. By introducing the spectral Galerkin method, we first obtain the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Jianbo Cui , Jialin Hong

This paper presents a mathematical analysis of the evolution of a mixture of two incompressible, isothermal fluids flowing through a porous medium in a three dimensional bounded domain. The model is governed by a coupled system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Manika Bag , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

We describe a functional framework suitable to the analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface whose evolution is assumed to be given \textit{a priori}. The model is derived from balance laws for an order parameter with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott

We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

We derive a novel thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions. This model describes the motion of viscous incompressible binary fluids with different densities. In contrast to previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Andrea Giorgini , Patrik Knopf

We consider a class of nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a nonlocal kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary condition. This diffuse interface model describes phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

A system of phase-field equations with strong-coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices is studied. Existence of weak solutions is established by the Galerkin approximation and a-priori estimates in strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Timileyin David Oyedeji , Yangyiwei Yang , Bai-Xiang Xu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

We consider a class of bulk-surface coupled Cahn-Hilliard systems in a smooth, bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, where the trace value of the bulk phase variable is connected to the surface phase variable via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

We study the weak solvability of a system of coupled Allen-Cahn-like equations resembling cross-diffusion which is arising as a model for the consolidation of saturated porous media. Besides using energy like estimates, we cast the special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-03 P. Artale Harris , E. N. M. Cirillo , A. Muntean

Rate-independent systems arise in a number of applications. Usually, weak solutions to such problems with potentially very low regularity are considered, requiring mathematical techniques capable of handling nonsmooth functions. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Filip Rindler , Sebastian Schwarzacher , Endre Süli

We develop a rigorous analytical framework for a coupled stochastic fluid-rigid body system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The model describes the motion of a rigid ball immersed in an incompressible Newtonian fluid subjected to both additive noise in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Felix Brandt , Arnab Roy

We derive a system of equations which can be seen as an evolving surface version of the diffuse interface "Model H" of Hohenberg and Halperin (1977). We then consider the well-posedness for the corresponding (tangential) system when one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales