Well-posedness and long-time behavior of a bulk-surface Cahn–Hilliard model with non-degenerate mobility

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Authors: Jonas Stange
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Abstract

We study a bulk-surface Cahn--Hilliard model with non-degenerate mobility and singular potentials in two dimensions. Following the ideas of the recent work by Conti, Galimberti, Gatti, and Giorgini [Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 64(3):Paper No. 87, 32, 2025] for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, we show the uniqueness of weak solutions together with a continuous dependence estimate for sufficiently regular mobility functions. Next, under weaker assumptions on the mobility functions, we show the existence of a weak solution that exhibits the propagation of uniform-in-time regularity and satisfies the instantaneous separation property. Lastly, we consider the long-time behavior and prove that the unique weak solution converges to a solution of the stationary bulk-surface Cahn--Hilliard equation. Our approach for the uniqueness proof relies on a new well-posedness and regularity theory for a bulk-surface elliptic system with non-constant coefficients, which may be of independent interest.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Solidification and crystal growth phenomena Theoretical and Computational Physics nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Publication details

Journal / source
Nonlinear Analysis
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
268
Pages
114060–114060
Publication date
29 January 2026
Language
EN