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We study the numerical algorithm and error analysis for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions. A second-order in time, linear and energy stable scheme is proposed, which is an extension of the first-order stabilized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Xiangjun Meng , Xuelian Bao , Zhengru Zhang

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

The aim of this paper is to study the metastable properties of the solutions to a hyperbolic relaxation of the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension, subject to either Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions. To perform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation with standard double-well potential. We employ a prototypical class of first order in time semi-implicit methods with implicit treatment of the linear dissipation term and explicit extrapolation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Dong Li

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes the phase separation process in multi-component mixtures. It has been successfully extended to many different contexts in several scientific fields. In this survey article, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu

We present a phase-field model based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation to investigate the properties of phase separation in DNA nanostar systems. Leveraging a realistic free-energy functional derived from Wertheim theory, our model captures the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-23 Marco Cappa , Francesco Sciortino , Lorenzo Rovigatti

We consider the numerical approximations of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions (C. Liu et. al., Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 2019). We propose a first-order in time, linear and energy stable numerical scheme, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Xuelian Bao , Hui Zhang

The paper presents a model of lateral phase separation in a two component material surface. The resulting fourth order nonlinear PDE can be seen as a Cahn-Hilliard equation posed on a time-dependent surface. Only elementary tangential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Vladimir Yushutin , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

We consider numerical approximations and error analysis for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with reaction rate dependent dynamic boundary conditions (P. Knopf et. al., arXiv, 2020). Based on the stabilized linearly implicit approach, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Xuelian Bao , Hui Zhang

This article examines the dynamic phase transitions and pattern formations attributed to binary systems modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In particular, we consider a two-dimensional lattice structure and determine how different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jared Grossman , Evan Halloran , Shouhong Wang

We extend the invariant manifold method for analyzing the asymptotics of dissipative partial differential equations on unbounded spatial domains to treat equations in which the linear part has order greater than two. One important example…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -P. Eckmann , C. E. Wayne

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

This article is concerned with a gradient-flow approach to a Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation introduced by Zhou et al. (Phys. Rev. E, 2006) in its variant with constant mobility. By means of time-incremental…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Moritz Immanuel Gau , Katharina Hopf

This paper is concerned with the evolution of the periodic boundary value problem and the mixed boundary value problem for a compressible mixture of binary fluids modeled by the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system in one dimensional space.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Yazhou Chen , Qiaolin He , Ming Mei , Xiaoding Shi

The Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn equation with noise is a simplified mean field model of stochastic microscopic dynamics associated with adsorption and desorption-spin flip mechanisms in the context of surface processes. For such an equation we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Dimitra C. Antonopoulou , Geogia Karali , Annie Millet

We describe a functional framework suitable to the analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface whose evolution is assumed to be given \textit{a priori}. The model is derived from balance laws for an order parameter with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a classic model of phase separation in binary mixtures that exhibits spontaneous coarsening of the phases. We study the Cahn--Hilliard equation with an imposed advection term in order to model the stirring and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

This paper deals with time stepping schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with three different types of dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed schemes of first and second order are mass-conservative and energy-dissipative and -- as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. Altmann , C. Zimmer

In this paper we focus on the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions, by adding two hyperbolic relaxation terms to the system. We verify that the energy of the total system is decreasing with time. By adding two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Minghui Yu , Rui Chen

The short-time stability of concentration profiles in coherent periodic multilayers consisting of two components with large miscibility gap is investigated by analysing stationary solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard diffusion equation. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Martina Hentschel , Manfred Bobeth , Gerhard Diener , Wolfgang Pompe