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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 article we consider the numerical modeling and simulation via the phase field approach of two-phase flows of different densities and viscosities in superposed fluid and porous layers. The model consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Xiaoming He , Ulrich Rüde

This paper tackles the approximation of surface diffusion flow using a Cahn--Hilliard-type model. We introduce and analyze a new second order variational phase field model which associates the classical Cahn--Hilliard energy with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

Using the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation as a model, we illuminate the role of advection in phase-separating binary liquids. The advecting velocity is either prescribed, or is determined by an evolution equation that accounts for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-12 Lennon O Naraigh

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 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 study a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of the flow of a binary fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy (CHD) type system with transport and mass source. A relevant physical application is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Giorgini , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which models phase separation in binary fluids, on the two-dimen\-sional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow, satisfying certain conditions and of sufficiently large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Anna L. Mazzucato , Xiaoqian Xu

We introduce a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density. The main novelty of the present contribution consists in the fact that the effects of temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We study the well-posedness of a coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes-Darcy system which is a diffuse-interface model for essentially immiscible two phase incompressible flows with matched density in a karstic geometry. Existence of finite energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Daozhi Han , Xiaoming Wang , Hao WU

This work analyzes a fully discrete mixed finite element method in a Banach space framework for solving nonstationary coupled fluid flow problems modeled by the Brinkman-Forchheimer equations, with applications to reverse osmosis. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Zeinab Gharibi , Mostafa Abbaszadeh , Mehdi Dehghan

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

A system with equation and dynamic boundary condition of Cahn-Hilliard type is considered. This system comes from a derivation performed in Liu-Wu (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 233 (2019), 167--247) via an energetic variational approach.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao , Luca Scarpa

This work presents a macroscopic model for the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids within inhomogeneous porous media. At the pore scale, the flow is governed by the full Navier-Stokes equations while the phase interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Chunhua Zhang , Peiyao Liu , Cheng Peng , Lian-Ping Wang , Zhaoli Guo

In this work, we investigate optimal control of a Brinkman equation couple with sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation. The Cahn-Hilliard equation is endowed with a source term accounting for mass exchange and the velocity equation contains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Manika Bag

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

We consider the sharp interface limit of the Allen-Cahn equation with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary conditions and give a varifold characterization of its limit which is formally a mean curvature flow with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Yoshikazu Giga , Fumihiko Onoue , Keisuke Takasao

This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Yadong Liu , Dennis Trautwein