Some nonclassical trends in parabolic and parabolic-like evolutions

P Fife - Trends in nonlinear analysis, 2003 - Springer
An overview will be given of some nonlinear parabolic-like evolution problems which are off
the classical beaten track, but have increased in importance during the past decade. The …

The phase field method for geometric moving interfaces and their numerical approximations

Q Du, X Feng - Handbook of numerical analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
This chapter surveys recent numerical advances in the phase field method for geometric
surface evolution and related geometric nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) …

A phase field model for the mixture of two incompressible fluids and its approximation by a Fourier-spectral method

C Liu, J Shen - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2003 - Elsevier
A phase field model for the mixture of two incompressible fluids is presented in this paper.
The model is based on an energetic variational formulation. It consists of a Navier–Stokes …

Convergence of the Cahn-Hilliard equation to the Hele-Shaw model

ND Alikakos, PW Bates, X Chen - Archive for rational mechanics and …, 1994 - Springer
We prove that level surfaces of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation tend to solutions of
the Hele-Shaw problem under the assumption that classical solutions of the latter exist. The …

Computation of geometric partial differential equations and mean curvature flow

K Deckelnick, G Dziuk, CM Elliott - Acta numerica, 2005 - cambridge.org
This review concerns the computation of curvature-dependent interface motion governed by
geometric partial differential equations. The canonical problem of mean curvature flow is that …

Numerical analysis of the Allen-Cahn equation and approximation for mean curvature flows

X Feng, A Prohl - Numerische Mathematik, 2003 - Springer
We propose and analyze a semi-discrete (in time) scheme and a fully discrete scheme for
the Allen-Cahn equation ut− Δ u+ ɛ− 2 f (u)= 0 arising from phase transition in materials …

An convergence of a second-order convex-splitting, finite difference scheme for the three-dimensional Cahn–Hilliard equation

J Guo, C Wang, SM Wise, X Yue - Communications in Mathematical …, 2016 - intlpress.com
In this paper we present an unconditionally solvable and energy stable second order
numerical scheme for the three-dimensional (3D) Cahn–Hilliard (CH) equation. The scheme …

Error analysis of a mixed finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

X Feng, A Prohl - Numerische Mathematik, 2004 - Springer
We propose and analyze a semi-discrete and a fully discrete mixed finite element method for
the Cahn-Hilliard equation ut+ Δ (ɛ Δ u− ɛ− 1 f (u))= 0, where ɛ> 0 is a small parameter …

Global asymptotic limit of solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation

X Chen - Journal of Differential Geometry, 1996 - projecteuclid.org
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CHEN Abstract 1. Introduction lkuE = l ί ^ = > (x Page 1 J. DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY Vol. 44 …

Convergence of the phase field model to its sharp interface limits

G Caginalp, X Chen - European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 1998 - cambridge.org
We consider the distinguished limits of the phase field equations and prove that the
corresponding free boundary problem is attained in each case. These include the classical …