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We describe a new form of diagonalization for linear two point constant coefficient differential operators with arbitrary linear boundary conditions. Although the diagonalization is in a weaker sense than that usually employed to solve…
In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…
The Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation has been proposed as a model for the interfacial energy of phase-separated mixtures of amphiphilic molecules. We study the existence of a nonnegative weak solutions of a gradient flow of the…
In this paper, we aim to study the motions of interfaces and coarsening rates governed by the time-fractional Cahn--Hilliard equation (TFCHE). It is observed by many numerical experiments that the microstructure evolution described by the…
We consider a computational model for complex-fluid-solid interaction based on a diffuse-interface model for the complex fluid and a hyperelastic-material model for the solid. The diffuse-interface complex-fluid model is described by the…
To solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation numerically, a new time integration algorithm is proposed, which is based on a combination of the Eyre splitting and the local iteration modified (LIM) scheme. The latter is employed to tackle the…
The functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) equation supports planar and circular bilayer interfaces as equilibria which may lose their stability through the pearling bifurcation: a periodic, high-frequency, in-plane modulation of the bilayer…
We present a diffuse-interface model for the solid-state dewetting problem with anisotropic surface energies in ${\mathbb R}^d$ for $d\in\{2,3\}$. The introduced model consists of the anisotropic Cahn--Hilliard equation, with either a…
Phase field models, in particular, the Allen-Cahn type and Cahn-Hilliard type equations, have been widely used to investigate interfacial dynamic problems. Designing accurate, efficient, and stable numerical algorithms for solving the phase…
In this article we present a refined convergence analysis for a second order accurate in time, fourth order finite difference numerical scheme for the 3-D Cahn-Hilliard equation, with an improved convergence constant. A modified backward…
We construct solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation whose nodal set converges to a given constant mean curvature hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold.
A number of recent studies have proposed that linear representations are appropriate for solving nonlinear dynamical systems with quantum computers, which fundamentally act linearly on a wave function in a Hilbert space. Linear…
The diffuse interface model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals is often used to study various aspects of multi-phase flows such as droplets coalescence and contact line dynamics. The original model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals uses an…
We present a computer-assisted proof of heteroclinic connections in the one-dimensional Ohta-Kawasaki model of diblock copolymers. The model is a fourth-order parabolic partial differential equation subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary…
The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for phase separation phenomena. Its rigorous derivation from the nonlocal aggregation equation, motivated by the desire to link interacting particle systems and continuous descriptions, has…
In the recent paper `Well-posedness and regularity for a generalized fractional Cahn-Hilliard system' (arXiv:1804.11290) by the same authors, general well-posedness results have been established for a a class of evolutionary systems of two…
We consider a class of nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a nonlocal kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary condition. This diffuse interface model describes phase…
This paper presents a new mixed finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The well-posedness of the mixed formulation is established and the error estimates for its linearized fully discrete scheme are provided. The new mixed…
In this paper we prove that solutions to a transmission problem degenerating on the interface are H\"older differentiable up to the interface with universal estimates. Furthermore, we obtain a sharper pointwise $C^{1,\alpha(\cdot)}$ with…
We prove rigorously the convergence of the Cahn-Larch\'e system, which is a Cahn-Hilliard system coupled with the system of linearized elasticity, to a modified Hele-Shaw problem as long as a classical solution of the latter system exists.…