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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…

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This work presents a macroscopic model for the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids within inhomogeneous porous media. At the pore scale, the flow is governed by the full Navier-Stokes equations while the phase interface…

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We study a general Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-Boussinesq system that describes the motion of a mixture of two incompressible Newtonian fluids with thermo-induced Marangoni effects. The Cahn-Hilliard dynamics of the binary mixture is…

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We consider a computational model for complex-fluid-solid interaction based on a diffuse-interface model for the complex fluid and a hyperelastic-material model for the solid. The diffuse-interface complex-fluid model is described by the…

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We develop the energy budget equation of the coupled Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system. We use the NSCH equations to model the dynamics of liquid droplets in a liquid continuum. Buoyancy effects are accounted for through the…

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Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

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We study a quasi-incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard coupled system which describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible incompressible viscous fluids with partial mixing in a small interfacial region and long-range…

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Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) systems describes flows with two-phases, e.g., a liquid with bubbles. Obtaining constitutive relations for general dissipative processes for such a systems, which are thermodynamically consistent, can be a…

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We examine a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model for bulk-surface viscous fluid mixtures. This model consists of a Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard model in the bulk coupled to a surface Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard system…

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We derive a class of Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard systems that models two-phase flows with mass transfer coupled to the process of chemotaxis. These thermodynamically consistent models can be seen as the natural Navier--Stokes analogues…

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This paper is concerned with the evolution of the periodic boundary value problem and the mixed boundary value problem for a compressible mixture of binary fluids modeled by the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system in one dimensional space.…

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Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

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We consider a diffuse interface model which describes the motion of an incompressible isothermal mixture of two immiscible fluids. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

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We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem in the Eulerian, phase-field formulation. The problem is described using the Navier--Stokes equations for a viscous, incompressible fluid, coupled with the incompressible hyperelasticity…

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We study a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain. The fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but a partial mixing in a small interfacial region is assumed in…

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A well-known diffuse interface model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations nonlinearly coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation. This system describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary-fluids and…

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In this paper, we present a new computational framework to approximate a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model with variable density and degenerate mobility that preserves the mass of the mixture, the pointwise bounds of the density and the…

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We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

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