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The general problem of two-phase transport in phase-field models is analyzed: the flux of a conserved quantity is driven by the gradient of a potential through a medium that consists of domains of two distinct phases which are separated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Matteo Nicoli , Mathis Plapp , Hervé Henry

We present a fully-explicit, iteration-free, weakly-compressible method to simulate immiscible incompressible two-phase flows. To update pressure, we circumvent the computationally expensive Poisson equation and use the general pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-03 Hormuzd Bodhanwalla , Dheeraj Raghunathan , Y. Sudhakar

We consider a sharp-interface approach for the inviscid isothermal dynamics of compressible two-phase flow, that accounts for phase transition and surface tension effects. To fix the mass exchange and entropy dissipation rate across the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-10 Christian Rohde , Christoph Zeiler

Multiphase flows are characterized by sharp moving interfaces, separating different fluids or phases. In many cases the dynamics of the interface determines the behavior of the flow. In a coarse, or reduced order model, it may therefore be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-12 Xianyang Chen , Jiacai Lu , Gretar Tryggvason

In this paper, we study the two phase flow problem with surface tension in the ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. We first prove the local well-posedness of the two phase flow problem with surface tension, then demonstrate that as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Changyan Li , Hui Li

The possible ``phase diagrams'' for shear-induced phase transitions between two phases are collected. We consider shear-thickening and shear-thinning fluids, under conditions of both common strain rate and common stress in the two phases,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter D. Olmsted

Based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics we derive a set of general equations relating the partial volumetric flow rates to each other and to the total volumetric flow rate in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. These equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-20 Alex Hansen , Santanu Sinha , Dick Bedeaux , Signe Kjelstrup , Isha Savani , Morten Vassvik

The description of surface-diffusion controlled dynamics via the phase-field method is less trivial than it appears at first sight. A seemingly straightforward approach from the literature is shown to fail to produce the correct…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 Clemens Mueller-Gugenberger , Robert Spatschek , Klaus Kassner

The following paper presents two simulation strategies for compressible two-phase or multicomponent flows. One is a full non-equilibrium model in which the pressure and velocity are driven towards the equilibrium at interfaces by numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Rémi Abgrall , Paola Bacigaluppi , Barbara Re

This paper is devoted to study thermodynamic formalism for suspension flows defined over countable alphabets. We are mostly interested in the regularity properties of the pressure function. We establish conditions for the pressure function…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Godofredo Iommi , Thomas Jordan

Realistic two-phase flow problems of interest often involve high $Re$ flows with high density ratios. Accurate and robust simulation of such problems requires special treatments. In this work, we present a consistent, energy-conserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-24 Shahab Mirjalili , Ali Mani

The purpose of this communication is to discuss the simulation of a free surface compressible flow between two fluids, typically air and water. We use a two fluid model with the same velocity, pressure and temperature for both phases. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Frederic Dias , Denys Dutykh , Jean-Michel Ghidaglia

One of the prevailing challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics is accurate simulation of two-phase flows involving heat and mass transfer across the fluid interface. This is currently an active field of research, which is to some extend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-02 Henning Scheufler , Johan Roenby

A physically-based method to derive well-posed instances of the two-fluid transport equations for two-phase flow, from the Hamilton principle, is presented. The state of the two-fluid flow is represented by the superficial velocity and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Alejandro Clausse , Martin Lopez de Bertodano

We study the size estimate problem for the two-phase shallow shell equations in this paper. Our aim is to derive bounds on the volume fraction of each phase assuming that the material properties of the two phases are given. The approach in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Hyeonbae Kang , Graeme W. Milton , Jenn-Nan Wang

Pure advection of a conservative scalar is relevant to several applications including two-phase flow. Successful numerical schemes must capture the sharp interface between the phases while maintaining a smooth (wrinkle-free) interfacial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yashar Mehmani

In this paper, we present the numerical solution of two-phase flow problems of engineering significance with a space-time finite element method that allows for local temporal refinement. Our basis is the method presented in [3], which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Violeta Karyofylli , Markus Frings , Stefanie Elgeti , Marek Behr

We consider flow-structure interactions modeled by a modified wave equation coupled at an interface with equations of nonlinear elasticity. Both subsonic and supersonic flow velocities are treated with Neumann type flow conditions, and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Igor Chueshov , Irena Lasiecka , Justin T. Webster

The computation of multiphase flows presents a subtle energetic equilibrium between potential (i.e., surface) and kinetic energies. The use of traditional interface-capturing schemes provides no control over such a dynamic balance. In the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Valle , F. X. Trias , J. Castro

The development of microfluidic devices has recently revived the interest in "old" problems associated with transport at, or across, interfaces. As the characteristic sizes are decreased, the use of pressure gradients to transport fluids…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Lydéric Bocquet , J. -L. Barrat