English
Related papers

Related papers: General Phase-Field Model with Stability Requireme…

200 papers

We study the nonequilibrium phase transition in a model of aggregation of masses allowing for diffusion, aggregation on contact and fragmentation. The model undergoes a dynamical phase transition in all dimensions. The steady state mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Satya N. Majumdar , Supriya Krishnamurthy , Mustansir Barma

A new cohesive phase-field (CPF) interface fracture model is proposed on the basis of the Euler-Lagrange equation of the phase-field theory and the interface fracture energy check w.r.t. that of the cohesive zone model. It employs an…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-31 Wan-Xin Chen , Xiang-Long Peng , Jian-Ying Wu , Orkun Furat , Volker Schmidt , Bai-Xiang Xu

Polycrystalline thin films can be unstable with respect to island formation (agglomeration) through grooving where grain boundaries intersect the free surface and/or thin film-substrate interface. We develop a phase-field model to study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathieu Bouville , Shenyang Hu , Long-Qing Chen , Dongzhi Chi , David J Srolovitz

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack propagation compared with numerical methods based on discrete crack…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shuwei Zhou , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

This paper proposes a diffuse-interface model for simulating gas-liquid-solid multiphase flows involving solid-liquid phase change, solute transport, and the Marangoni effect. In this model, a phase-field method is employed to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jiangxu Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Xi Liu , Changsheng Huang

A fully implicit phase field model has been implemented in Fortran for 1-3D simulations. It is intended for simulations of diffusion and diffusion controlled transformations. Gibbs energy contributions from both gradients in concentration…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-26 Henrik Larsson

We investigate a new phase field model for representing non-oriented interfaces, approximating their area and simulating their area-minimizing flow. Our contribution is related to the approach proposed in arXiv:2105.09627 that involves ad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Elie Bretin , Antonin Chambolle , Simon Masnou

We construct a new phase-field model for the solvation of charged molecules with a variational implicit solvent. Our phase-field free-energy functional includes the surface energy, solute-solvent van der Waals dispersion energy, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Yanxiang Zhao , Yanping Ma , Hui Sun , Bo Li , Qiang Du

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

In this paper a generalization of the Cahn-Hilliard theory of binary liquids is presented for multi-component incompressible liquid mixtures. First, a thermodynamically consistent convection-diffusion type dynamics is derived on the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-03 Gyula I. Toth , Mojdeh Zarifi , Bjorn Kvamme

We present a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for simulating fluid transport across semi-permeable membranes, with a particular focus on osmotic pressure effects. The model extends the classical Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ruihan Guo , Jie Shen , Shixin Xu , Xianmin Xu

We develop a phase-field model for evaporation from a porous medium by explicitly considering a vapor component together with the liquid and gas phases in the system. The phase-field model consists of the conservation of mass (for phases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Tufan Ghosh , Carina Bringedal , Christian Rohde , Rainer Helmig

We propose a new class of phase field models coupled to viscoelasticity with large deformations, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model composed by a phase with elastic properties and a liquid phase. The model is formulated in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

Motivated by the drying pattern experiment by Yamazaki and Mizuguchi[J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. {\bf 69} (2000) 2387], we propose the dynamics of sweeping interface, in which material distributed over a region is swept by a moving interface. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-26 Takuya Iwashita , Yumino Hayase , Hiizu Nakanishi

A new approach is developed to derive an analytical form for mobility corrections in phase-field models for pure material solidification. Similar to the thin interface limit approach (Karma and Rappel, 1996) it seeks to remove systematic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Stephan Hubig , Raphael Schiedung , Ingo Steinbach

Second-order phase field models have emerged as an attractive option for capturing the advection of interfaces in two-phase flows. Prior to these, state-of-the-art models based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which is a fourth-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shahab Mirjalili , Makrand A Khanwale , Ali Mani

We present a new phase-field model of solidification which allows efficient computations in the regime when interface kinetic effects dominate over capillary effects. The asymptotic analysis required to relate the parameters in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kalin Vetsigian , Nigel Goldenfeld

We develop a model describing the behavior of two-phase ferrofluid flows using phase field-techniques and present an energy-stable numerical scheme for it. For a simplified, yet physically realistic, version of this model and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Abner J. Salgado , Ignacio Tomas

In this paper, a phase-field based model under the framework of discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) for incompressible multiphase fluid flows is proposed. Two kinetic models are constructed to solve the conservative Allen-Cahn (A-C)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Zeren Yang , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

We present a positivity preserving variational scheme for the phase-field modeling of incompressible two-phase flows with high density ratio and using meshes of arbitrary topology. The variational finite element technique relies on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev K. Jaiman
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›