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A Novel Energy Stable Numerical Scheme for Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard Two-phase Flow Model with Variable Densities and Viscosities

Computational Physics 2018-05-25 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

A novel numerical scheme including time and spatial discretization is offered for coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes governing equation sys-tem in this paper. Variable densities and viscosities are considered in the nu-merical scheme. By introducing an intermediate velocity in both Cahn-Hilliard equation and momentum equation, the scheme can keep discrete energy law. A decouple approach based on pressure stabilization is implemented to solve the Navier-Stokes part, while the stabilization or convex splitting method is adopt-ed for the Cahn-Hilliard part. This novel scheme is totally decoupled, linear, unconditionally energy stable for incompressible two-phase flow diffuse inter-face model. Numerical results demonstrate the validation, accuracy, robustness and discrete energy law of the proposed scheme in this paper.

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@article{arxiv.1805.09509,
  title  = {A Novel Energy Stable Numerical Scheme for Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard Two-phase Flow Model with Variable Densities and Viscosities},
  author = {Xiaoyu Feng and Jisheng Kou and Shuyu Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09509},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures, 25 references