1. Steady states. There are many two component systems in which phase separation can be induced by rapidly cooling the system. Thus, if a two component system, which is spatially uniform at temperature T1, is rapidly cooled to a second sufficiently lower temperature T2, then the cooled system will separate into regions of higher and lower concentration. A phenomenological description of the beh...

A convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation of sixth order that describes the faceting of a growing surface is considered with periodic boundary conditions. By using a Galerkin approach the existence of weak solutions to this sixth order partial differential equation is established in L2(0, T ; Ḣ3 per). Furthermore stronger regularity results have been derived and these are used to prove uniquenes...

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a nonlinear fourth order diffusion equation originating in material science for modeling phase separation and phase coarsening in binary alloys. The inpainting of binary images using the Cahn-Hilliard equation is a new approach in image processing. In this paper we discuss the stationary state of the proposed model and introduce a generalization for grayvalue image...

We study the asymptotic dynamics of the Cahn–Hilliard equation via the “Gamma-convergence” of gradient flows scheme initiated by Sandier and Serfaty. This gives rise to an H1-version of a conjecture by De Giorgi, namely, the slope of the Allen–Cahn functional with respect to the H−1-structure Gamma-converges to a homogeneous Sobolev norm of the scalar mean curvature of the limiting interface. W...

We consider the spectrum of the linear operator that arises upon linearization of the Cahn–Hilliard equation in dimensions d ≥ 2 about a planar transition front (a solution that depends on only one distinguished space variable and that has different values at ±∞). In previous work the author has established conditions on this spectrum under which such planar transition fronts are asymptotically...

An efficient semi-implicit Fourier spectral method is implemented to solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a variable mobility. The method is orders of magnitude more efficient than the conventional forward Euler finite-difference method, thus allowing us to simulate large systems for longer times. We studied the coarsening kinetics of interconnected two-phase mixtures using a Cahn-Hilliard equ...

Validated continuation was introduced in [4] as means of checking that the classical continuation method applied to a Galerkin projection of a PDE provides a locally unique equilibrium to the PDE of interest. In this paper we extend the numerical technique to include a parameter that leads to better bounds on the errors associated with the Galerkin truncation. We test this method on the Swift-H...

Using two models that incorporate a nonlinear forward-backward heat equation, we demonstrate the existence of well-deened weak solutions containing shocks for diiusive problems. Occurrence of shocks is connected to multivalued inverse solutions and non-monotone potential functions. Unique viscous solutions are determined from perturbation theory by matching to a shock layer condition. Results o...