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The Cahn-Hilliard system has been used to describe a wide number of phase separation processes, from co-polymer systems to lipid membranes. In this work the convergence properties of a closest-point based scheme is investigated. In place of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Prerna Gera , David Salac

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the commonly used binary fluid-surfactant phase field model that consists two nonlinearly coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations. The main challenge in solving the system numerically is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Xiaofeng Yang

Phase field models are widely used to describe multiphase systems. Here a smooth indicator function, called phase field, is used to describe the spatial distribution of the phases under investigation. Material properties like density or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Christian Kahle

In this paper we propose a mathematical model of phase separation for a quasi-incompressible binary mixture where the spinodal decomposition is induced by an heat flux governed by the Cattaneo-Maxwell equation. As usual, the phase…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 A. Berti , I. Bochicchio , M. Fabrizio

In this work, we study a phase-field model for curvature-driven pattern formation in biomembranes. The model is derived as a gradient flow of an energy functional that approximates the two-phase Canham--Helfrich energy. This leads to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Patrik Knopf , Anastasija Pešić , Dennis Trautwein

In this paper, we present a phase field model for the self-climb motion of prismatic dislocation loops via vacancy pipe diffusion driven by elastic interactions. This conserved dynamics model is developed under the framework of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-04 Xiaohua Niu , Yang Xiang , Xiaodong Yan

This paper is concerned with a diffusion model of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, interpreted as balances of microforces and microenergy, for two unknowns: the problem's order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper we propose an extension of the Cahn method to binary mixtures and study the problem of wetting near a two-phase critical point without any assumption on the form of intermolecular potentials. A comparison between Cahn's method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Henri Gouin , Sergey Gavrilyuk

We study a general Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-Boussinesq system that describes the motion of a mixture of two incompressible Newtonian fluids with thermo-induced Marangoni effects. The Cahn-Hilliard dynamics of the binary mixture is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Lingxi Chen

The evolution of two partially miscible, nonhomogeneous, incompressible viscous fluids of non-Newtonian type, can be governed by the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system. In the present work, we prove the global existence of weak solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Fang Li , Duan Xingyu , Guo Zhenhua

We introduce a new phase field model for binary mixtures of incompressible micropolar fluids, which are among the simplest categories of fluids exhibiting internal rotations. The model fulfils local and global dissipation inequalities so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Kin Shing Chan , Baoli Hao , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

We study a thermodynamically consistent phase field model for binary mixtures of micropolar fluids, i.e., fluids exhibiting internal rotations. Furnishing with classical no-slip, no-spin and no-flux boundary conditions, in a smooth and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Kin Shing Chan , Kei Fong Lam

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of two-phase flows or binary mixtures. In recent years, the dynamic boundary conditions for the Cahn-Hilliard equation have been proposed and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Shuting Gu , Ming Xiao , Rui Chen

We study a Cahn--Hilliard two-phase model describing the flow of two viscoelastoplastic fluids, which arises in geodynamics. A phase-field variable indicates the proportional distribution of the two fluids in the mixture. The motion of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Fan Cheng , Robert Lasarzik , Marita Thomas

A Maxwell-Stefan system for fluid mixtures with driving forces depending on Cahn-Hilliard-type chemical potentials is analyzed. The corresponding parabolic cross-diffusion equations contain fourth-order derivatives and are considered in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Xiaokai Huo , Ansgar Jüngel , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

Phase-field models are a popular choice in computational physics to describe complex dynamics of substances with multiple phases and are widely used in various applications. We present nonlocal non-isothermal phase-field models of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Olena Burkovska

The evolution of two incompressible, immiscible, isothermal fluids in a bounded domain and a porous media is described by the coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman (CHB) system. The CHB system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation describing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Sheetal Dharmatti , Greeshma K

In this paper general dynamic equations describing the time evolution of isothermal quasi-incompressible multicomponent liquids are derived in the framework of the classical Ginzburg-Landau theory of first order phase transformations. Based…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Gyula I. Toth

We study an initial-boundary value problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system with non-constant density proposed by Abels, Garcke and Gr\"{u}n in 2012. This model arises in the diffuse interface theory for binary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Giorgini