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We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel fully discrete finite element scheme with the interpolation operator for stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equations with functional-type noise. The nonlinear term satisfies a one-side Lipschitz condition and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Yukun Li , Corey Prachniak , Yi Zhang

The goal of this paper is to accurately describe the metastable dynamics of the solutions to the hyperbolic relaxation of the Cahn-Hilliard equation in a bounded interval of the real line, subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

The Cahn-Hilliard model with reaction terms can lead to situations in which no coarsening is taking place and, in contrast, growth and division of droplets occur which all do not grow larger than a certain size. This phenomenon has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

In this paper, we formulate and study substructuring type algorithm for the Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation, which was originally proposed to describe the phase separation phenomenon for binary melted alloy below the critical temperature and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Gobinda Garai , Bankim C. Mandal

In this paper, we provide a detailed convergence analysis for a first order stabilized linear semi-implicit numerical scheme for the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation, which follows from consistency and stability estimates for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Cheng Wang

We find analytical solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the dynamics of an interface in a system with a conserved order parameter (Model B). We show that, although steady-state solutions of Model B are unphysical in the far-field,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. L. Evans , M. E. Cates

In the present work, we address a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a nonlinear diffusive dynamics and possibly containing an additional sixth order term. This model describes the separation properties of oil-water mixtures,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Giulio Schimperna , Irena Pawlow

We consider the stabilisation of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation towards a given trajectory by means of a finite-dimensional static output feedback mechanism. Exponential stabilisation of the controlled state around the target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Herbert Egger , Marvin Fritz , Karl Kunisch , Sérgio S. Rodrigues

In this paper we devise and analyze a mixed finite element method for a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a non-steady Darcy-Stokes flow that models phase separation and coupled fluid flow in immiscible binary fluids and diblock…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Amanda E. Diegel , Xiaobing H. Feng , Steven M. Wise

We show stabilisation of solutions to one-dimensional advective Cahn-Hilliard equation modeling the Langmuir-Blodgett thin films. This problem has the structure of a gradient flow perturbed by a linear term $\beta u_x$. Through application…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Marco Morandotti , Piotr Rybka , Glen Wheeler

We show short-time well-posedness of 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 2026-05-01 Helmut Abels , Jonas Haselböck

In the conceptual framework of phase ordering after temperature quenches below transition, we consider the underdamped Bales-Gooding-type 'momentum conserving' dynamics of a 2D martensitic structural transition from a square-to-rectangle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 N. Shankaraiah , Awadhesh K. Dubey , Sanjay Puri , Subodh R. Shenoy

In this paper, we study the longtime asymptotic behavior of a phase separation process occurring in a three-dimensional domain containing a fluid flow of given velocity. This process is modeled by a viscous convective Cahn-Hilliard system,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a system which consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d = 2, 3$. This system accounts for macrophase and microphase separation in a polymer mixture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli

The degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation is a standard model to describe living tissues. It takes into account cell populations undergoing short-range attraction and long-range repulsion effects. In this framework, we consider the usual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Benoît Perthame , Alexandre Poulain

In this paper we present a new first-order hyperbolic reformulation of the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The model is obtained from the combination of augmented Lagrangian techniques proposed earlier by the authors of this paper, with a classical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Firas Dhaouadi , Michael Dumbser , Sergey Gavrilyuk

We propose and analyse new stabilized time marching schemes for Phase Fields model such as Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hillard equations, when discretized in space with high order finite differences compact schemes. The stabilization applies to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Matthieu Brachet , Jean-Paul Chehab

This work uses a linear relaxation method to develop efficient numerical schemes for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations. The L1+-CN formula is used to discretize the fractional derivative, and an auxiliary variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Hui Yu , Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

In this paper we propose a time discretization of a system of two parabolic equations describing diffusion-driven atom rearrangement in crystalline matter. The equations express the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Pavel Krejčí , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels