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In this paper we present a complete framework for the energy-stable simulation of stratified incompressible flow in channels, using the one-dimensional two-fluid model. Building on earlier energy-conserving work on the basic two-fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 J. F. H. Buist , B. Sanderse , S. Dubinkina , C. W. Oosterlee , R. A. W. M. Henkes

We investigate the limiting behavior of the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for binary-fluid flows as the diffuse-interface thickness passes to zero, in the presence of fluid-fluid-solid contact lines. Allowing for motion of such contact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 T. H. B. Demont , S. K. F. Stoter , C. Diddens , E. H. van Brummelen

This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Yadong Liu , Dennis Trautwein

In this paper we consider the flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids in a bounded domain, with different densities and viscosities. This model consists of a coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Mullins-Sekerka type parts,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Helmut Abels , Andrea Poiatti

In continuum thermodynamics, models of two-phase mixtures typically obey the condition of pressure equilibrium across interfaces between the phases. We propose a new non-equilibrium model beyond that condition, allowing for microinertia of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-18 Ilya Peshkov , Evgeniy Romenski , Michal Pavelka

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We revisit the sharp-interface continuum thermodynamics of two-phase multicomponent fluid systems, accounting for partial mass and partial momentum balances both in the bulk phases and on the interface. This allows to describe the transfer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-21 Dieter Bothe

We present a new diffuse interface model for the dynamics of inextensible vesicles in a viscous fluid. A new feature of this work is the implementation of the local inextensibility condition in the diffuse interface context. Local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sebastian Aland , Sabine Egerer , John Lowengrub , Axel Voigt

We show global well-posedness and exponential stability of equilibria for a general class of nonlinear dissipative bulk-interface systems. They correspond to thermodynamically consistent gradient structure models of bulk-interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Karoline Disser

We consider a two-phase problem for two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids which are separated by a sharp interface. The problem arises as a sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model. We present results on local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Helmut Abels , Mathias Wilke

Standard diffuse approximations of the Willmore flow often lead to intersecting phase boundaries that in many cases do not correspond to the intended sharp interface evolution. Here we introduce a new two-variable diffuse approximation that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

We prove convergence of suitable subsequences of weak solutions of a diffuse interface model for the two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities with a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

In this work, we propose a novel transport model for soluble surfactants in two-phase flows. In a two-phase flow, the soluble surfactants can adsorb/desorb from/into the bulk of any of the phases to the interface and can modify the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-14 Suhas S. Jain

We propose a new diffuse interface model for simulating an inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free surface problem. By using the Onsager's variational principle and the laws of thermodynamics, we derive a thermodynamically consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jiancheng Wang , Maojun Li , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

Insoluble surfactants adsorbed at liquid-liquid or gas-liquid interfaces alter interfacial tension, leading to variations in the normal stress jump and generating tangential Marangoni stresses that can dramatically affect the flow dynamics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zhong-Han Xue , Jacques Magnaudet , Jie Zhang

We investigate the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface system that couples the Allen--Cahn equation with the instationary Navier--Stokes system in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \in \{2,3\}$. This model is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sebastian Hensel , Yuning Liu

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

We discuss two doubly degenerate Cahn-Hilliard (DDCH) models for isotropic surface diffusion. Degeneracy is introduced in both the mobility function and a restriction function associated to the chemical potential. Our computational results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt , Steven M. Wise