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We study the long-time asymptotics of prototypical non-linear diffusion equations. Specifically, we consider the case of a non-degenerate diffusivity function that is a (non-negative) polynomial of the dependent variable of the problem. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Ivan C. Christov , Akif Ibraguimov , Rahnuma Islam

The motion of two contiguous incompressible and viscous fluids is described within the diffuse interface theory by the so-called Model H. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, which are coupled with the Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Andrea Giorgini , Alain Miranville , Roger Temam

We propose a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combined with convex-concave splitting for the temporal discretization of the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. The convection term is discretized explicitly without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Gang Chen , Daozhi Han , Jiaxuan Liu , Yangwen Zhang , Dujin Zuo

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

We study the long-time dynamics of the nonlinear processes modeled by diffusion-transport partial differential equations in non-divergence form with drifts. The solutions are subject to some inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Luan Hoang , Akif Ibragimov

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the fourth order Cahn-Hilliard equation with concentration dependent mobility, and the logarithmic Flory-Huggins potential. One challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

In this paper, we investigate a system coupled by nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Allen-Cahn equations describing a diffuse interface for two-phase flow of viscous fluids with different densities in a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yinghua Li , Wenlin Ye

We uncover a strong coupling between nonlinearity and diffraction in a photonic crystal at the supercollimation point. We show this is modeled by a nonlinear diffraction term in a nonlinear schroedinger type equation, in which the…

We investigate the well-posedness problem related to two models of nonlinear McKean Stochastic Differential Equations with some local interaction in the diffusion term. First, we revisit the case of the McKean-Vlasov dynamics with moderate…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Mireille Bossy , Jean Francois Jabir

In this work, we deal with the stochastic counterpart of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation with regular potential in a smooth bounded one-, two- or three-dimensional domain. The problem is endowed with homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Andrea Di Primio , Christoph Hurm

We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d = 2, 3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli

The mathematical analysis of diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows has attracted significant attention due to their ability to capture complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified, energetically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper deals with time stepping schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with three different types of dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed schemes of first and second order are mass-conservative and energy-dissipative and -- as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. Altmann , C. Zimmer

We perform computer simulations of a Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation which has dynamical asymmetry between the two coexisting phases. The dynamical asymmetry is incorporated by considering a mobility function which is order…

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We investigate diffusion-type partial differential equations that are irregular in the sense that they admit weak solutions which are nowhere smooth, even for prescribed smooth data. By reformulating these equations as first-order partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Bin Guo , Seonghak Kim , Baisheng Yan

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

We consider the Cauchy problem for a model of non-linear acoustics, named the Kuznetsov equation, describing sound propagation in thermo-viscous elastic media. For the viscous case, it is a weakly quasi-linear strongly damped wave equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Adrien Dekkers , Anna Rozanova-Pierrat

We analyze the effect of nonlinear boundary conditions on an advection-diffusion equation on the half-line. Our model is inspired by models for crystal growth where diffusion models diffusive relaxation of a displacement field, advection is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Antoine Pauthier , Arnd Scheel

This paper establishes a structure-preserving numerical scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility. First, by applying a finite volume method with upwind numerical fluxes to the degenerate Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Qiong-Ao Huang , Wei Jiang , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

The link between compressible models of tissue growth and the Hele-Shaw free boundary problem of fluid mechanics has recently attracted a lot of attention. In most of these models, only repulsive forces and advection terms are taken into…

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