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A spectral-fractional Cahn-Hilliard cross-diffusion system, which describes the pre-patterning of lymphatic vessel morphology in collagen gels, is studied. The model consists of two higher-order quasilinear parabolic equations and describes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Ansgar Jüngel , Yue Li

In this paper we propose a time discretization of a system of two parabolic equations describing diffusion-driven atom rearrangement in crystalline matter. The equations express the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Pavel Krejčí , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flow structure in Wasserstein space to derive a notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Inwon Kim , Alpár R. Mészáros

In this paper, we introduce a model describing the dynamic of vesicle membranes within an incompressible viscous fluid in $3D$ domains. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, with an extra stress tensor depending on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Blanca Climent-Ezquerra , Francisco Guillén-González

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

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

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

An outstanding problem in Earth science is understanding the method of transport of magma in the Earth's mantle. Models for this process, transport in a viscously deformable porous media, give rise to scalar degenerate, dispersive,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Gideon Simpson , Marc Spiegelman , Michael I. Weinstein

We consider a nonlinear drift-diffusion system for multiple charged species in a porous medium in 2D and 3D with periodic microstructure. The system consists of a transport equation for the concentration of the species and Poisson's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Apratim Bhattacharya , Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation with an externally-prescribed chaotic shear flow is studied in two and three dimensions. The main goal is to compare and contrast the phase separation in two and three dimensions, using high-resolution numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-23 Lennon O'Naraigh , Selma Shun , Aurore Naso

We present extensive results from 2-dimensional simulations of phase separation kinetics in a model with order-parameter dependent mobility. We find that the time-dependent structure factor exhibits dynamical scaling and the scaling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Sanjay Puri , Alan Bray , Joel Lebowitz

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with hyperbolic relaxation. This type of equations processes energy-dissipative structure. The main challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

We study a Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw (or Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy) system for an incompressible mixture of two fluids. The relative concentration difference $\varphi$ is governed by a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Cecilia Cavaterra , Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

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

We consider a three-dimensional domain occupied by a homogeneous, incompressible, non-Newtonian, heat-conducting fluid with prescribed nonuniform temperature on the boundary and no-slip boundary conditions for the velocity. No external body…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Anna Abbatiello , Miroslav Bulíček , Petr Kaplický

The main objectives of this article are two-fold. First, we study the effect of the nonlinear Onsager mobility on the phase transition and on the well-posedness of the Cahn-Hilliard equation modeling a binary system. It is shown in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Honghu Liu , Taylan Sengul , Shouhong Wang

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

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

We consider weak solutions for a diffuse interface model of two non-Newtonian viscous, incompressible fluids of power-law type in the case of different densities in a bounded, sufficiently smooth domain. This leads to a coupled system of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Helmut Abels , Dominic Breit

Employing a two-species Cahn-Hilliard model with nonreciprocal interactions we show that the interplay of nonreciprocity and conservation laws results in the robust coexistence of uniform stationary and oscillatory phases as well as of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-27 Daniel Greve , Giorgio Lovato , Tobias Frohoff-Hülsmann , Uwe Thiele