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We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with different densities in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

We investigate the two-dimensional Muskat problem with a nonlinear elastic interface, for both one-phase and two-phase scenarios. Following the framework developed by Nguyen [35,36], we demonstrate that the problem is locally well-posed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

This paper concerns the dynamics of two layers of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid lying atop one another. The lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom, and the upper fluid is bounded above by a trivial fluid of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice , Yanjin Wang

Pushing two fluids with different density one against the other causes the development of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability at their interface, which further evolves in a complex mixing layer. In porous media, this process is influenced by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-15 G. Boffetta , M. Borgnino , S. Musacchio

We study the free boundary problem for the flow of a compressible isentropic inviscid elastic fluid. At the free boundary moving with the velocity of the fluid particles the columns of the deformation gradient are tangent to the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Yuri Trakhinin

We consider the local kinematics at fluid interfaces in two-phase flows within the sharp interface framework. In the considered case with phase change and slip at the interface, the governing velocity field is discontinuous at the phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Dieter Bothe , Matthias Köhne

The two-fluid (ions and electrons) plasma Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a cylindrical light/heavy density interface is numerically investigated without an initial magnetic field. Varying the Debye length scale, we examine the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Y. Li , R. Samtaney , D. Bond , V. Wheatley

Understanding the interface dynamics in non-equilibrium quantum systems remains a challenge. We study the interface dynamics of strongly coupled immiscible binary superfluids by using holographic duality. The full nonlinear evolution of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-30 Yu-Ping An , Li Li , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng

This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

The evolution of the interface between two ideal dielectric liquids in a strong vertical electric field is studied. It is found that a particular flow regime, for which the velocity potential and the electric field potential are linearly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nikolay M. Zubarev

Hele-Shaw problems are prototypes to study the interface dynamics. Linear theory suggests the existence of self-similar patterns in a Hele-Shaw flow. That is, with a specific injection flux the interface shape remains unchanged while its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Wang Xiao , Lingyu Feng , Kai Liu , Meng Zhao

We perform a linear stability analysis of three-layer radial porous media and Hele-Shaw flows with variable viscosity in the middle layer. A nonlinear change of variables results in an eigenvalue problem that has time-dependent coefficients…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-30 Craig Gin , Prabir Daripa

We investigate a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase viscous flows with surfactant. The resulting system of partial differential equations consists of a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

The classical model for studying one-phase Hele-Shaw flows is based on a highly nonlinear moving boundary problem with the fluid velocity related to pressure gradients via a Darcy-type law. In a standard configuration with the Hele-Shaw…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-27 Liam C. Morrow , Timothy J. Moroney , Michael C. Dallaston , Scott W. McCue

In this work, we study the so-called Allen-Cahn-Navier-Stokes equations, a diffuse-interface model for two-phase incompressible flows with different densities. We first prove the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of classical solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Di Ma

We study the Muskat problem describing the spatially periodic motion of two fluids with equal viscosities under the effect of gravity in a vertical unbounded two-dimensional geometry. We first prove that the classical formulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Anca-Voichita Matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We investigate some unstable behavior of the interface given by two incompressible fluids of different densities evolving by the regular Stokes law with gravity force. In the unstable scenario, where the denser fluid lies above the lighter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Zhongtian Hu , Elena Salguero , Yao Yao

For the free boundary problem of the plasma-vacuum interface to ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in two-dimensional space, the a priori estimates of solutions are proved in Sobolev norms by adopting a geometrical point of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Chengchun Hao

We study the motion of phase interfaces in a diffusive lattice equation with bistable nonlinearity and derive a free boundary problem with hysteresis to describe the macroscopic evolution in the parabolic scaling limit. The first part of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Michael Helmers , Michael Herrmann

We consider the homogenisation of the Stokes equations in a porous medium which is evolving in time. At the interface of the pore space and the solid part, we prescribe an inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, which enables to model a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-14 David Wiedemann , Malte A. Peter