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Phase field models are powerful tools to tackle free boundary problems. For phase transformations involving diffusion, the evolution of the non conserved phase field is coupled to the evolution of the conserved diffusion field. Introducing…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Boussinot , Efim A. Brener

This paper is concerned with diffuse-interface approximations of the Willmore flow. We first present numerical results of standard diffuse-interface models for colliding one dimensional interfaces. In such a scenario evolutions towards…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Selim Esedoglu , Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

We investigate the sharp material interface limit of the Darcy-Boussinesq model for convection in layered porous media with diffused material interfaces, which allow a gradual transition of material parameters between different layers. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Hongjie Dong , Xiaoming Wang

Viscous fingering patterns can form at the interface between two immiscible fluids confined in the gap between a pair of flat plates; whenever the fluid with lower viscosity displaces the one of higher viscosity the interface is unstable.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-03 Thomas E. Videbæk , Sidney R. Nagel

A finite element method for the evolution of a two-phase membrane in a sharp interface formulation is introduced. The evolution equations are given as an $L^2$--gradient flow of an energy involving an elastic bending energy and a line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We construct a diffuse-interface model of two-phase solidification that quantitatively reproduces the classic free boundary problem on solid-liquid interfaces in the thin-interface limit. Convergence tests and comparisons with boundary…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Folch , M. Plapp

We propose to model physical effects at the sharp density interface between atmosphere and ocean with the help of diffuse interface approaches for multiphase flows with variable densities. We use the variable-density model proposed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

Conventional phase-field models often drive solid-solid interfaces to coalesce when in close proximity. This feature limits their use for processes like diffusion bonding, where the interfaces might need to remain distinct under certain…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-20 Maryam Khodadad , Noel Walkington , Suresh Kalyanam , Matteo Pozzi , Kaushik Dayal

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…

It is shown that dynamics of the interface between ideal fluid and light viscous fluid is exactly integrable in the approximation of small surface slopes for two-dimensional flow. Stokes flow of viscous fluid provides a relation between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pavel M. Lushnikov

We propose a two-dimensional flow model of a viscous fluid between two close moving surfaces. We show, using a formal asymptotic expansion of the solution, that its asymptotic behavior, when the distance between the two surfaces tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 José M. Rodríguez , Raquel Taboada-Vázquez

Most recent diffusion-based methods still show a large gap compared to non-diffusion methods for video frame interpolation, in both accuracy and efficiency. Most of them formulate the problem as a denoising procedure in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yang Hai , Guo Wang , Tan Su , Wenjie Jiang , Yinlin Hu

We consider a kinetic model of two species of particles interacting with a reservoir at fixed temperature, described by two coupled Vlasov-Fokker-Plank equations. We prove that in the diffusive limit the evolution is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guido Manzi , Rossana Marra

The diffuse-interface model for two-phase flows with soluble surfactants has garnered considerable attention due to its ability to circumvent the need for Robin boundary condition in the bulk surfactant transport equation. However, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-29 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Luyun Xu , Tian Liu , Huanshu Tan

The kinetics of interfaces in alloy solidification pose a classic free boundary problem. This paper introduces an approach that amalgamates the distinctive characteristics of sharp and diffuse interface models. The motion of the diffuse…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-31 Chuanqi Zhu , Yuichiro Koizumi

We show well-posedness of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with different densities locally in time. The model leads to an inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system with a solenoidal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Helmut Abels , Josef Weber

We present in detail a set of algorithms to carry out fluid displacements in a dynamic pore-network model of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. The algorithms are general and applicable to regular and irregular pore networks in two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-31 Santanu Sinha , Magnus Aa. Gjennestad , Morten Vassvik , Alex Hansen

In this paper, two approaches for modeling three-component fluid flows using diffusive interface method are discussed. Thermodynamic consistency of the proposed models is preserved when using an energetic variational framework to derive the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Arkadz Kirshtein , James Brannick , Chun Liu

Diffusion of particles through an heterogenous obstacle line is modeled as a two-dimensional diffusion problem with a one--directional nonlinear convective drift and is examined using two-scale asymptotic analysis. At the scale where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Ida de Bonis , Adrian Muntean , Omar Richardson

We propose a seamless multiscale method which approximates the macroscopic behavior of the passive advection-diffusion equations with steady incompressible velocity fields with multi-spatial scales. The method uses decompositions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Yoonsang Lee , Bjorn Engquist