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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

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977) is useful for problems involving fluid-structure interactions or complex geometries. By making use of a regular Cartesian grid that is independent of the geometry, the IB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Brittany J. Leathers , Robert D. Guy

We examine the analytic extension of solutions of linear, constant-coefficient initial-boundary value problems outside their spatial domain of definition. We use the Unified Transform Method or Method of Fokas, which gives a representation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Matthew Farkas , Jorge Cisneros , Bernard Deconinck

In this article, we focus on a doubly nonlinear nonlocal parabolic initial boundary value problem driven by the fractional $p$-Laplacian equipped with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on a domain in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ and composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Timthy Collier , Daniel Hauer

We study the initial-boundary value problem for a class of diffusion equations with nonmonotone diffusion flux functions, including forward-backward parabolic equations and the gradient flows of nonconvex energy functionals, under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Baisheng Yan

The present work proposes a well-balanced finite volume-type numerical method for the solution of non-conservative hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with source terms. The method is characterized, first, by the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Chiara Colombo , Caterina Dalmaso , Lucas O. Müller , Annunziato Siviglia

We prove global existence of a solution to an initial and boundary value problem for a highly nonlinear PDE system. The problem arises from a thermomechanical dissipative model describing hydrogen storage by use of metal hydrides. In order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Elisabetta Chiodaroli

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

In this contribution we present recent developments in the formulation and solution of Initial Boundary Value Problems (IBVPs). Building upon a modern variational action formulation of classical dynamics, we treat Initial Boundary Value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Alexander Rothkopf , W. A. Horowitz , Jan Nordström

In this paper, we study a linear convection-diffusion equation with time-dependent coefficients on a bounded interval. The problem includes inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and is motivated by physical models where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Konstantinos Kalimeris , Türker Özsarı

We introduce a fractional variant of the Cahn-Hilliard equation settled in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $R^N$ and complemented with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions of solid type (i.e., imposed in the entire complement of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Goro Akagi , Giulio Schimperna , Antonio Segatti

An adaptive implicit-explicit (IMEX) BDF2 scheme is investigated on generalized SAV approach for the Cahn-Hilliard equation by combining with Fourier spectral method in space. It is proved that the modified energy dissipation law is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Yifan Wei , Jiwei Zhang , Chengchao Zhao , Yanmin Zhao

As a sequel to the paper [9], we study the existence and properties of Lipschitz solutions to the initial-boundary value problem of some forward-backward parabolic equations with diffusion fluxes violating Fourier's inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Seonghak Kim , Baisheng Yan

A broad class of inverse problems deals with determining certain parameters, from measurement data, in models which are associated to certain partial differential equations. In this work we focus on the heat equation on a finite interval…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Konstantinos Kalimeris , Leonidas Mindrinos

Solutions of boundary value problems for a diffusion equation of fractional and variable order in differential and difference settings are studied. It is shown that the method of energy inequalities is applicable to obtaining a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-22 A. A. Alikhanov

This paper is concerned with a class of partial differential equations, which are the linear combinations, with constant coefficients, of the classical flows of the KdV hierarchy. A boundary value problem with inhomogeneous boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Mikhail Yu. Ignatyev

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Liu , Shuting Gu

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

This paper concerns the initial-boundary-value problem (IBVP) of the compressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in 3D exterior domains with Navier-slip boundary conditions for the velocity and perfect conducting conditions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Jiaxu Li , Boqiang Lü , Bing Yuan

We study initial boundary value problems for linear scalar partial differential equations with constant coefficients, with spatial derivatives of {\em arbitrary order}, posed on the domain $\{t>0, 0<x<L\}$. We first show that by analysing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-17 A. S. Fokas , B. Pelloni