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An asymptotic limit of a class of Cahn-Hilliard systems is investigated to obtain a general nonlinear diffusion equation. The target diffusion equation may reproduce a number of well-known model equations: Stefan problem, porous media…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

Here we consider the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with constant mobility in a bounded domain. We prove that the associated dynamical system has an exponential attractor, provided that the potential is regular. In order to do that a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Ciprian G. Gal , Maurizio Grasselli

Condition imposed on the nonlinear terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation with {R}obin boundary condition is the main focus of this paper. The degenerate parabolic equations, such as the {S}tefan problem, the {H}ele--{S}haw problem, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Taishi Motoda , Takeshi Fukao

We establish metastability of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation for initial data that is order-one in energy and order-one in $\dot{H}^{-1}$ away from a point on the so-called slow manifold with $N$ well-separated layers.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Sebastian Scholtes , Maria G. Westdickenberg

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

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

This paper introduces a stabilized finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard cross-diffusion model, which is characterized by strongly coupled mobilities, nonlinear diffusion, and complex cross-diffusion terms. These features pose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Boyi Wang , Naresh Kumar , Jinyun Yuan

We show short-time well-posedness of a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Helmut Abels , Jonas Haselböck

This paper deals with a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with nonlinear diffusion. It was proved that there exists a solution of a Cahn-Hilliard system as an approximation of a nonlinear diffusion equation by applying an abstract theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Shunsuke Kurima

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation with constant mobility and logarithmic potential on a two-dimensional evolving closed surface embedded in $\mathbb R^3$, as well as a related weighted model. The well-posedness of weak solutions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott , Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

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

This paper deals with the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for the fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main results consist of global (in time) existence of weak solutions, characterization of parabolic smoothing effects (implying under proper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Goro Akagi , Giulio Schimperna , Antonio Segatti

The global-in-time existence of weak solutions to a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard cross-diffusion system with singular potential in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proved. The model consists of two coupled parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Ansgar Jüngel , Yue Li

We prove convergence of suitable subsequences of weak solutions of a diffuse interface model for the two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities with a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

This article is concerned with a gradient-flow approach to a Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation introduced by Zhou et al. (Phys. Rev. E, 2006) in its variant with constant mobility. By means of time-incremental…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Moritz Immanuel Gau , Katharina Hopf

We present and analyze an unconditionally energy stable and convergent finite difference scheme for the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation. One key difficulty associated with the energy stability is based on the fact that one nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Wenqiang Feng , Zhen Guan , John Lowengrub , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

A subdiffusion problem in which the diffusion term is related to a stable stochastic process is introduced. Linear models of these systems have been studied in a general way, but non-linear models require a more specific analysis. The model…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Soveny Solís , Vicente Vergara

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

In this paper, a non-uniform time-stepping convex-splitting numerical algorithm for solving the widely used time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation is introduced. The proposed numerical scheme employs the $L1^+$ formula for discretizing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Jun Zhang , Jia Zhao , JinRong Wang

The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation provides a natural extension of the classical model for phase separation by incorporating long-range interactions through a singular convolution kernel. While this formulation admits a rich existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Andrea Poiatti , Maurizio Grasselli , Benjamin Goddard , John Pearson