This paper is concerned with the generalized Allen-Cahn equation with a nonlinear mobility that can degenerate, which also includes an advection term as found in phase-field models. A class of maximum principle preserving schemes will be studied for the generalized Allen-Cahn equation, with either the commonly used polynomial free energy or the logarithmic free energy, and with a nonlinear dege...

We prove that finite Morse index solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation in R2 have finitely many ends and linear energy growth. The main tool is a curvature decay estimate on level sets of these finite Morse index solutions, which in turn is reduced to a problem on the uniform second order regularity of clustering interfaces for the singularly perturbed Allen-Cahn equation in Rn. Using an indirec...

The Allen-Cahn equation is a gradient system, where the free-energy func4 tional decreases monotonically in time. We develop an energy stable reduced order 5 model (ROM) for a gradient system, which inherits the energy decreasing property 6 of the full order model (FOM). For the space discretization we apply a discontinuous 7 Galerkin (dG) method and for time discretization the energy stable av...

We derive a Cahn–Hilliard–Darcy model to describe multiphase tumour growth taking interactions with multiple chemical species into account as well as the simultaneous occurrence of proliferating, quiescent and necrotic regions. Via a coupling of the Cahn–Hilliard–Darcy equations to a system of reaction-diffusion equations a multitude of phenomena such as nutrient diffusion and consumption, angi...

The free boundary model of diffusion-induced grain boundary motion derived in Cahn et al. [3], Fife et al. [6] and Cahn & Penrose [4] is extended, in the case of thin metallic films, to account for bidirectional motion, together with the appearance of S-shapes and double seam configurations. These are often observed in the laboratory. Computer simulations based on the extended model are given t...

We consider two-phase flow problems, modelled by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In our work, the nonlinear fourth-order equation is decomposed into a system of two second-order equations for the concentration and the chemical potential. We analyse solution methods based on an approximate two-by-two block factorization of the Jacobian of the nonlinear discrete problem. We propose a preconditioning ...

Keywords: Allen–Cahn equation Finite element method Operator splitting method Unconditionally stable scheme a b s t r a c t We present an unconditionally stable hybrid finite element method for solving the Allen– Cahn equation, which describes the temporal evolution of a non-conserved phase-field during the antiphase domain coarsening in a binary mixture. Its various modified forms have been ap...

This paper studies spinodal decomposition in the Cahn-Hilliard model on the unit disk. It has previously been shown that starting at initial conditions near a homogeneous equilibrium on a rectangular domain, solutions to the linearized and the nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard equation behave indistinguishably up to large distances from the homogeneous state. In this paper we demonstrate how these result...

It has recently been proposed that spatially discretized versions of the Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations for modeling phase transitions have certain theoretical and phenomenological advantages over their continuous counterparts. This paper deals with one-dimensional discretizations and examines the extent to which dynamical metastability, which manifests itself in the original partial di...

Large deviation for Markov processes can be studied by Hamilton– Jacobi equation techniques. The method of proof involves three steps: First, we apply a nonlinear transform to generators of the Markov processes, and verify that limit of the transformed generators exists. Such limit induces a Hamilton–Jacobi equation. Second, we show that a strong form of uniqueness (the comparison principle) ho...