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Basic principles and practical applications of the Cahn-Hilliard equation. (English) Zbl 1400.35157
Summary: The celebrated Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation was proposed to model the process of phase separation in binary alloys by Cahn and Hilliard. Since then the equation has been extended to a variety of chemical, physical, biological, and other engineering fields such as spinodal decomposition, diblock copolymer, image inpainting, multiphase fluid flows, microstructures with elastic inhomogeneity, tumor growth simulation, and topology optimization. Therefore, it is important to understand the basic mechanism of the CH equation in each modeling type. In this paper, we review the applications of the CH equation and describe the basic mechanism of each modeling type with helpful references and computational simulation results.

MSC:
 35K35 Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations 35Q53 KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) 74N20 Dynamics of phase boundaries in solids 76T99 Multiphase and multicomponent flows 80A22 Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. 92B25 Biological rhythms and synchronization
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