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We study interface fluctuations for the $1$D stochastic Allen-Cahn equation perturbed by half a spatial derivative of the spacetime white noise. This half derivative makes the solution distribution-valued, so that proper renormalization is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Weijun Xu , Shuhan Zhou

We consider the second-order in time Strang-splitting approximation for vector-valued and matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equations. Both the linear propagator and the nonlinear propagator are computed explicitly. For the vector-valued case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan , Jiao Xu

We present a phase-field model for the dynamics of the interface between two inmiscible fluids with arbitrary viscosity contrast in a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. With asymptotic matching techniques we check the model to yield the right…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Folch , J. Casademunt , A. Hernandez-Machado , L. Ramirez-Piscina

We prove existence of weak solutions to 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 2024-08-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Jonas Haselböck

A fully conservative sharp-interface method is developed for multiphase flows with phase change. The coupling between two phases is implemented via introducing the interfacial fluxes, which are obtained by solving a general Riemann problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Tian Long , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

In this chapter we consider different approximations for the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem corresponding to the fusion process of a semi-infinite material with a temperature boundary condition at the fixed face and non-linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-21 Julieta Bollati , María F. Natale , José A. Semitiel , Domingo A. Tarzia

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

In this article, we use Morse-theoretic techniques to construct connections between low energy critical submanifolds of the Allen-Cahn energy functional in the 3-sphere via the negative gradient flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Jingwen Chen , Pedro Gaspar

The effect of thermal fluctuations near a contact line of a liquid interface partially wetting an impenetrable substrate is studied analytically and numerically. Promoting both the interface profile and the contact line position to random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-15 D. Belardinelli , M. Sbragaglia , M. Gross , B. Andreotti

We investigate the phase-field approximation of the Willmore flow. This is a fourth-order diffusion equation with a parameter $\epsilon>0$ that is proportional to the thickness of the diffuse interface. We show rigorously that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Mingwen Fei , Yuning Liu

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

We study critical points of a one-parameter family of functionals arising in combustion models. The problems we consider converge, for infinitesimal values of the parameter, to Bernoulli's free boundary problem, also known as one-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Alessandro Audrito , Joaquim Serra

We introduce a quadratically-constrained approximation (QCAC) of the AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem. Unlike existing approximations like the DC-OPF, our model does not rely on typical assumptions such as high reactance-to-resistance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Gonzalo E. Constante-Flores , Can Li

This article is mainly devoted to the asymptotic analysis of a fractional version of the (elliptic) Allen-Cahn equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, with or without a source term in the right hand side of the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Vincent Millot , Yannick Sire , Kelei Wang

In this work, we study the so-called Allen-Cahn-Navier-Stokes equations, a diffuse-interface model for two-phase incompressible flows with different densities. We first prove the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of classical solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Di Ma

We study a diffuse interface model describing the motion of two viscous fluids driven by the surface tension in a Hele-Shaw cell. The full system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with the Darcy's law. We address the physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Andrea Giorgini

We present a finite element method for the Stokes equations involving two immiscible incompressible fluids with different viscosities and with surface tension. The interface separating the two fluids does not need to align with the mesh. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

The aim of this contribution is to address the convergence study of a time and space approximation scheme for an Allen-Cahn problem with constraint and perturbed by a multiplicative noise of It\^o type. The problem is set in a bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Caroline Bauzet , Cédric Sultan , Guy Vallet , Aleksandra Zimmermann

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

We analyze the continuum limit of a thresholding algorithm for motion by mean curvature of one dimensional interfaces in various space-time discrete regimes. The algorithm can be viewed as a time-splitting scheme for the Allen-Cahn equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Oleksandr Misiats , Nung Kwan Yip