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The aim of this article is to study a Cahn-Hilliard model for a multicomponent mixture with cross-diffusion effects, degenerate mobility and where only one of the species does separate from the others. We define a notion of weak solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Virginie Ehrlacher , Greta Marino , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

We prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard system with nonlinear viscosity terms and nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions. The problem is highly nonlinear, characterized by four nonlinearities and two separate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Luca Scarpa

The solution of constrained linear partial-differential equations can be described via parametric representations of linear relations. To study these representations, we provide a novel definition of boundary triplets for linear relations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Hannes Gernandt , Friedrich Philipp , Till Preuster , Manuel Schaller

Boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear evolution PDEs formulated on the finite interval can be analyzed by the unified method introduced by one of the authors and used extensively in the literature. The implementation of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 J. Lenells , A. S. Fokas

The properties of interfaces in non-equilibrium situations are studied by constructing a density matrix with a space-dependent temperature. The temperature gradient gives rise to new terms in the equation for the order parameter. Surface…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael C. Ogilvie

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we propose, analyze and implement efficient time parallel methods for the Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation. It is of great importance to develop efficient numerical methods for the CH equation, given the range of applicability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Gobinda Garai , Bankim C. Mandal

Differential equations with constant and variable coefficients over octonions are investigated. It is found that different types of differential equations over octonions can be resolved. For this purpose non-commutative line integration is…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Sergey V. Ludkovsky

This work investigates the well-posedness and optimal control of a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation, a higher-order variant of the celebrated and well-established Cahn-Hilliard equation. The equation is endowed with a source term, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We introduce a new measure of coarseness for characterizing phase separation processes such as those described by Cahn--Hilliard equations. An advantage of our measure is that it remains consistent throughout the evolution, including for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

Second order accurate Cartesian grid methods have been well developed for interface problems in the literature. However, it is challenging to develop third or higher order accurate methods for problems with curved interfaces and internal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Zhilin Li , Kejia Pan , Juan Ruiz

The Hadamard well-posedness of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with power nonlinearity formulated on the spatial quarter-plane is established in a low-regularity setting with Sobolev initial data and Dirichlet boundary data in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Dionyssios Mantzavinos , Türker Ozsarı

The boundary conditions at the deformable interface between two contacting fluids are derived for the general case of the large-amplitude perturbations. The interface is modeled as perturbed free boundary that evolves in time, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-13 Ivan V. Kazachkov

We study finite element approximations of elliptic and parabolic interface problems with discontinuous coefficients and nonlinear jump conditions. We introduce a scalar interface reduction in which the solution is decomposed into a…

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A general formalism to solve nonlinear differential equations is given. Solutions are found and reduced to those of second order nonlinear differential equations in one variable. The approach is uniformized in the geometry and solves…

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We introduce a new approach to constructing analytic solutions of the linear PDEs describing elastodynamics. This approach is illustrated for the case of a homogeneous isotropic half-plane body satisfying arbitrary initial conditions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-15 A. S. Fokas , D. Yang

The solution of the sine-Gordon equation in the quarter plane can be expressed in terms of the solution of a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem whose definition involves four spectral functions $a,b,A,B$. The functions $a(k)$ and $b(k)$ are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Lin Huang , Jonatan Lenells

In this paper we present a mathematical model to describe the phenomenon of phase separation, which is modelled as space regions where an order parameter changes smoothly. The model proposed, including thermal and mixing effects, is deduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Alessia Berti , Ivana Bochicchio

This work studies the initial-boundary value problem for both the linear Schr\"odinger equation and the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-space in higher dimensions ($n\ge 2$). First, the forced linear problem is solved on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 A. Alexandrou Himonas , Fangchi Yan