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This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Suhas S. Jain , Michael C. Adler , Jacob R. West , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin , Sanjiva K. Lele

A dynamical model is proposed to describe the coupled decomposition and profile evolution of a free surface film of a binary mixture. An example is a thin film of a polymer blend on a solid substrate undergoing simultaneous phase separation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-25 Uwe Thiele , Santiago Madruga , Lubor Frastia

Critical wetting transitions under nonequilibrium conditions are studied numerically and analytically by means of an interface-displacement model defined by a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, plus some extra terms representing a limiting,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elvira Romera , Francisco de los Santos , Omar Al Hammal , Miguel A. Munoz

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we study a new model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

The response of a model micro-electrochemical system to a time-dependent applied voltage is analyzed. The article begins with a fresh historical review including electrochemistry, colloidal science, and microfluidics. The model problem…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Z. Bazant , Katsuyo Thornton , Armand Ajdari

Electrical contact is fundamental to almost every aspect of modern industry, including the fast-growing electric vehicle industry. In metallic contacts in atmospheric conditions, most of the electrical current passes via the micro-junctions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-27 Yang Xu , Yue Wu , Robert L. Jackson

A diffuse interface (phase field) model for an electrochemical system is developed. We describe the minimal set of components needed to model an electrochemical interface and present a variational derivation of the governing equations. With…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Guyer , W. J. Boettinger , J. A. Warren , G. B. McFadden

The viscous regularization of an ill-posed diffusion equation with bistable nonlinearity predicts a hysteretic behavior of dynamical phase transitions but a complete mathematical \mbox{understanding} of the intricate multiscale evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Carina Geldhauser , Michael Herrmann , Dirk Janßen

We consider a diffuse interface model for an incompressible isothermal mixture of two viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities in a bounded domain in two or three space dimensions. The model is the nonlocal version of the one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Sergio Frigeri

We introduce a generalized Dicke-like model to describe two-level systems coupled with a single bosonic mode. In addition, the two-level systems mutually interact via direct dipole-dipole interaction. We apply the model to an ensemble of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Marek Nečada , Jani-Petri Martikainen , Päivi Törmä

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

We present accurate and mathematically consistent formulations of a diffuse-interface model for two-phase flow problems involving rapid evaporation. The model addresses challenges including discontinuities in the density field by several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Magdalena Schreter-Fleischhacker , Peter Munch , Nils Much , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier

We describe the formation of deposition patterns that are observed in many different experiments where a three-phase contact line of a volatile nanoparticle suspension or polymer solution recedes. A dynamical model based on a long-wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-24 Lubor Frastia , Andrew J. Archer , Uwe Thiele

A general model covering a large variety of the so-called adhesive or cohesive, possibly also frictional, contact interfaces between visco-elastic bodies with inertia considered in a thermodynamical context is presented. A semi-implicit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Tomáš Roubíček

We develop a diffuse-interface continuum model for membrane electroporation that couples a phase field for pore geometry to a quasi-static electrolyte potential and a spatially varying leaky-dielectric model for the transmembrane voltage.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Saman Seifi , David Salac

We consider the spreading of a thin two-dimensional droplet on a planar substrate as a prototype system to compare the contemporary model for contact line motion based on interface formation of Shikhmurzaev [Int. J. Multiphas. Flow 19, 589…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-08-17 David N. Sibley , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

The thin interface limit aims at minimizing the effects arising from a numerical interface thickness, inherent in diffuse interface models of solidification and microstructure evolution such as the phase field model. While the original…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-18 Amol Subhedar , Peter K. Galenko , Fathollah Varnik

Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to study the wetting behavior of nanoscale aqueous hydrophilic and hydrophobic Imidazolium based ionic liquid (IL) droplets on a solid graphite substrate subjected to the perpendicular electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-09 Sanchari Bhattacharjee , Sandip Khan

Nonintegrable systems thermalize, leading to the emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics. Typically, this hydrodynamics is diffusive. We use the effective field theory (EFT) of diffusion to compute higher-point functions of conserved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Luca V. Delacretaz , Ruchira Mishra