A review on the Cahn-Hilliard equation: classical results and recent advances in dynamic boundary conditions

H Wu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13812, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

A structure-preserving, operator splitting scheme for reaction-diffusion equations with detailed balance

C Liu, C Wang, Y Wang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose and analyze a positivity-preserving, energy stable numerical
scheme for a certain type of reaction-diffusion systems involving the Law of Mass Action with …

Some recent advances in energetic variational approaches

Y Wang, C Liu - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we summarize some recent advances related to the energetic variational
approach (EnVarA), a general variational framework of building thermodynamically …

Well-posedness of a bulk-surface convective Cahn–Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions

P Knopf, J Stange - Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications …, 2024 - Springer
We consider a general class of bulk-surface convective Cahn–Hilliard systems with dynamic
boundary conditions. In contrast to classical Neumann boundary conditions, the dynamic …

Two-Phase Flows with Bulk–Surface Interaction: Thermodynamically Consistent Navier–Stokes–Cahn–Hilliard Models with Dynamic Boundary Conditions

A Giorgini, P Knopf - Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - Springer
We derive a novel thermodynamically consistent Navier–Stokes–Cahn–Hilliard system with
dynamic boundary conditions. This model describes the motion of viscous incompressible …

Two-phase flows through porous media described by a Cahn–Hilliard–Brinkman model with dynamic boundary conditions

P Colli, P Knopf, G Schimperna, A Signori - Journal of Evolution Equations, 2024 - Springer
We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (ie,
flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium …

A first-order energy stable scheme for the Allen-Cahn equation with the Allen-Cahn type dynamic boundary condition

M Xiao, R Chen - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper we construct and analyze a first-order time marching scheme for the Allen-
Cahn equation with the Allen-Cahn type dynamic boundary condition. To hold the mass …

On the nonlocal Cahn–Hilliard equation with nonlocal dynamic boundary condition and boundary penalization

P Knopf, A Signori - Journal of Differential Equations, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cahn–Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase
segregation processes in binary mixtures. Various dynamic boundary conditions have …

A convergent SAV scheme for Cahn–Hilliard equations with dynamic boundary conditions

S Metzger - IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Cahn–Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase
separation processes in mixtures of two materials. For a better description of short-range …

Second order stabilized semi-implicit scheme for the Cahn–Hilliard model with dynamic boundary conditions

X Meng, X Bao, Z Zhang - Journal of Computational and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …