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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

We study the limit behavior of Cahn--Hilliard-type functionals in which the derivative is replaced by higher-order fractional derivatives and modulated by an oscillating factor. Depending on the ratio between the oscillation scale and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Fabrizio Caragiulo , Sergio Scalabrino , Edoardo Voglino

We propose a novel Hybrid High-Order method for the Cahn-Hilliard problem with convection. The proposed method is valid in two and three space dimensions, and it supports arbitrary approximation orders on general meshes containing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Florent Chave , Daniele Di Pietro , Fabien Marche

This paper deals with an initial and boundary value problem for a system coupling equation and boundary condition both of Cahn-Hilliard type; an additional convective term with a forced velocity field, which could act as a control on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We present an approximate analytical solution of the Cahn-Hilliard equation describing the coalescence during a first order phase transition. We have identified all the intermediate profiles, stationary solutions of the noiseless…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Simon Villain-Guillot

The Ohta-Kawasaki model for diblock-copolymers is well known to the scientific community of diffuse-interface methods. To accurately capture the long-time evolution of the moving interfaces, we present a derivation of the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Amlan K. Barua , Ray Chew , Shuwang Li , John Lowengrub , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

In this paper we discuss a family of viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with a non-smooth viscosity term. This system may be viewed as an approximation of a "forward-backward" parabolic equation. The resulting problem is highly nonlinear,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Luca Scarpa , Giuseppe Tomassetti

This work explores the solvability of a sixth-order Cahn--Hilliard equation with an inertial term, which serves as a relaxation of a higher-order variant of the classical Cahn--Hilliard equation. The equation includes a source term that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi

We derive a system of equations which can be seen as an evolving surface version of the diffuse interface "Model H" of Hohenberg and Halperin (1977). We then consider the well-posedness for the corresponding (tangential) system when one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

Having a finite interfacial thickness, the phase-field models supply a way to model the fluid interfaces, which allows the calculations of the interface movements and deformations on the fixed grids. Such modeling is applied to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

It is known that the unified transform method may be used to solve any well-posed initial-boundary value problem for a linear constant-coefficient evolution equation on the finite interval or the half-line. In contrast, classical methods…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-19 David A. Smith

While linear systems are well-understood, no explicit solution for general nonlinear systems exists. A classical approach to make the understanding of linear system available in the nonlinear setting is to represent a nonlinear system by a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Thomas Breunung , Florian Kogelbauer

We consider the sharp interface limit of a coupled Stokes/Cahn\textendash Hilliard system in a two dimensional, bounded and smooth domain, i.e., we consider the limiting behavior of solutions when a parameter $\epsilon>0$ corresponding to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Helmut Abels , Andreas Marquardt

We consider a diffuse interface model that describes the macro- and micro-phase separation processes of a polymer mixture. The resulting system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono type equation endowed with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Bohan Ouyang

In this paper we consider scalar parabolic equations in a general non-smooth setting with emphasis on mixed interface and boundary conditions. In particular, we allow for dynamics and diffusion on a Lipschitz interface and on the boundary,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Karoline Disser , Martin Meyries , Joachim Rehberg

We prove the existence of unique weak solutions to an extension of a Cahn--Hilliard model proposed recently by C.~Liu and H.~Wu (2019), in which the new dynamic boundary condition is further generalised with an affine linear relation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Patrik Knopf , Kei Fong Lam

This paper presents analytical-approximate solutions of the time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard (TFCH) equations of fourth and sixth-order using the new iterative method (NIM) and q-homotopy analysis method (q-HAM). We obtained convergent series…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Lanre Akinyemi , Olaniyi S. Iyiola , Udoh Akpan

We study the growth of a periodic pattern in one dimension for a model of spinodal decomposition, the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We particularly focus on the intermediate region, where the non-linearity cannot be negected anymore, and before…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Villain-Guillot , Christophe Josserand

We study the two and three dimensional stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation in the sharp interface limit, where the positive parameter $\epsilon$ tends to zero, which measures the width of transition layers generated during phase separation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Dimitra C. Antonopoulou , Dirk Blömker , Georgia D. Karali

Image inpainting involves filling in damaged or missing regions of an image by utilizing information from the surrounding areas. In this paper, we investigate a highly nonlinear partial differential equation inspired by the modified…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Darko Mitrovic , Andrej Novak
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