A fully computable upper bound for the finite element approximation error of Allen– Cahn and Cahn–Hilliard equations with logarithmic potentials is derived. Numerical experiments show that for the sharp interface limit this bound is robust past topological changes. Modifications of the abstract results to derive quasi-optimal error estimates in different norms for lowest order finite element me...

A phase separation process model formed by the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the heat equation is considered. The mobility coefficient in the Cahn-Hilliard equation is assumed to be an increasing function of the temperature. This property is of importance at the latest stage of the cooling process. The existence and uniqueness of a weak solution is proved, and a uniform cooling problem is studied....

We present an approximate analytical solution of the Cahn-Hilliard equation describing the coalescence during a first order phase transition. We have identified all the intermediate profiles, stationary solutions of the noiseless Cahn-Hilliard equation. Using properties of the soliton lattices, periodic solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, we have construct a family of ansatz describing c...

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension with scaling parameter ε, i.e. ut = (W ′(u) − εuxx)xx, where W is a nonconvex potential. In the limit ε ↓ 0, under the assumption that the initial data are energetically well-prepared, we show the convergence to a Stefan problem. The proof is based on variational methods and exploits the gradient flow structure of the Cahn-Hilliard e...

In this paper, inspired from the study on denoising, segmentation and reconstruction in image processing, and combining with the theories of two phase flows, we introduce one class of initial-boundary value problem of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlocal terms. Then, by using the Schauder fixed point theorem, we obtain the existence of weak solutions to this initial boundary value problem f...

We consider front propagation problems for forced mean curvature flows with a transport term and their phase field variants that take place in stratified media, i.e., heterogeneous media whose characteristics do not vary in one direction. We provide a convergence result relating asymptotic in time front propagation in the diffuse interface case to that in the sharp interface case, for suitably ...

Long time asymptotics are developed here for an Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard system derived recently by Cahn & Novick-Cohen [11] as a di use interface model for simultaneous orderdisorder and phase separation. Proximity to a deep quench limit is assumed, and spatial scales are chosen to model Krzanowski instabilities in which droplets of a minor disordered phase bounded by interphase boundaries (IP...

We present a new numerical scheme for solving a conservative Allen–Cahn equation with a space–time dependent Lagrange multiplier. Since the well-known classical Allen–Cahn equation does not have mass conservation property, Rubinstein and Sternberg introduced a nonlocal Allen–Cahn equation with a time dependent Lagrange multiplier to enforce conservation of mass. However, with their model it is ...

A discontinuous Galerkin finite element method has been developed to treat the high-order spatial derivatives appearing in the Cahn–Hilliard equation. The Cahn–Hilliard equation is a fourth-order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation, originally proposed to model phase segregation of binary alloys. The developed discontinuous Galerkin approach avoids the need for mixed finite elemen...

This paper presents a complete finite volume method for the Cahn–Hilliard and Kuramoto– Sivashinsky type of equations. The spatial discretization is high-order accurate and suitable for general unstructured grids. The time integration is addressed by means of implicit an implicit–explicit fourth order Runge–Kutta schemes, with error control and adaptive time-stepping. The outcome is a practical...