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We consider the barotropic Navier--Stokes system describing the motion of a compressible Newtonian fluid in a bounded domain with in and out flux boundary conditions. We show that if the boundary velocity coincides with that of a rigid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Jan Brezina , Eduard Feireisl , Antonin Novotny

This paper presents a numerical study of three-dimensional laminar mixed convection within a liquid flowing on a horizontal channel heated uniformly from below. The upper surface is free and assumed to be flat. The coupled Navier-Stokes and…

We consider a coupled model for fluid flow and transport in a domain consisting of two bulk regions separated by a thin porous layer. The thickness of the layer is of order $\varepsilon$ and the microscopic structure of the layer is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we extend a lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) with continuous surface fore (CSF) to simulate thermocapillary flows. The model is designed on our previous CSF LBE for athermal two phase flow, in which the interfacial tension…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-22 Lin Zheng , Song Zheng , Qinglan Zhai

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain by allowing for a degenerate mobility. The model has been developed by Abels, Garcke and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

In this paper we investigate the interaction of fluid flow with a thin porous elastic layer. We consider two fluid-filled bulk domains which are separated by a thin periodically perforated layer consisting of a fluid and an elastic solid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu , Willi Jäger

We consider the motion of a compressible, viscous, and heat conducting fluid in the regime of small viscosity and heat conductivity. It is shown that weak solutions of the associated Navier- Stokes-Fourier system converge to a (strong)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Eduard Feireisl

Superhydrophobic one-dimensional surfaces reduce drag and generate transverse hydrodynamic phenomena by combining hydrophobicity and roughness to trap gas bubbles in microscopic textures. Recent works in this area have focused on specific…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-23 Tatiana V. Nizkaya , Evgeny S. Asmolov , Olga I. Vinogradova

The flow of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluids with unmatched densities is studied, where a transfer of mass between the constituents by phase transition is taken into account. To this end, two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Julia Wittmann

When an evaporating water droplet is deposited on a thermally conductive substrate, the minimum temperature will be at the apex due to evaporative cooling. Consequently, density and surface tension gradients emerge within the droplet and at…

We investigate the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for incompressible heat conducting inhomogeneous fluid. The main result concerns existence of global in time regular large solutions, provided the initial temperature is sufficiently large.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Piotr B. Mucha , Agnieszka Świerczewska-Gwiazda

We study convergence of a finite volume scheme for the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system describing the motion of compressible viscous and heat conducting fluids. The numerical flux uses upwinding with an additional numerical diffusion of order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Eduard Feireisl , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Hana Mizerova , Bangwei She

We study the dynamics of a system defined by the Navier-Stokes equations for a non-compressible fluid with Marangoni boundary conditions in the two dimensional case. We show that more complicated bifurcations can appear in this system for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Sergey Vakulenko , Ivan Sudakov

We experimentally explore pressure-driven flow of water and n-hexane across nanoporous silica (Vycor glass monoliths with 7 or 10 nm pore diameters, respectively) as a function of temperature and surface functionalization (native and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-20 Simon Gruener , Dirk Wallacher , Stefanie Greulich , Mark Busch , Patrick Huber

We consider the motion of a two-layer thin film that consists of two immiscible viscous fluids and is endowed with an anti-surfactant solute. The presence of such solute particles induces variations of the surface tension and interfacial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Rahul Barthwal , Christian Rohde

We show a case of steady flow in a granular gas that, for small shear rates, is accurately described by Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics, even for high inelasticity. The (low density) granular gas is composed of identical inelastic spheres and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-15 Francisco Vega Reyes

We consider the Navier--Stokes--Fourier system describing the motion of a compressible, viscous, and heat conducting fluid in a bounded domain with general non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for the velocity and the absolute…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Nilasis Chaudhuri , Eduard Feireisl

Guided by computation, we theoretically calculate the steady flow driven by Marangoni stress due to surfactant introduced on a fluid interface at a constant rate. Two separate extreme cases, where the surfactant dynamics is dominated by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-06 S. Mandre

Temperature distributions and the corresponding vortex structures in an evaporating sessile droplet are obtained by performing detailed numerical calculations. A Marangoni convection induced by thermal conduction processes in the drop and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-23 L. Yu. Barash