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We study the motion of a compressible heat-conducting fluid in three dimensions interacting with a non-linear flexible shell. The fluid is described by the full Navier--Stokes--Fourier system. The shell constitutes an unknown part of the…

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An analytical solution based on a diffuse interface model is presented for an isothermal evaporation problem under sub-saturation pressure. The macroscopic equations are derived from the free-energy method, widely recognized in the lattice…

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This paper proposes a new general methodology for finite-time singularity formation for moving interface problems involving the incompressible Euler equations in the plane. The first problem considered is the two-phase Euler vortex sheets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Daniel Coutand

The motion of three-phase contact lines is one of the most relevant research topics of micro- and nano-fluidics. According to many hydrodynamic and molecular models, the dynamics of contact lines is assumed overdamped and dominated by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-29 Michele Pellegrino , Berk Hess

We present an explicit finite difference method to simulate the non-ideal multi-phase fluid flow. The local density and the momentum transport are modeled by the Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations and the pressure is computed by the Van der…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-12 Chunheng Zhao , Alexandre Limare , Stephane Zaleski

This paper investigates a variational approach to viscous flows with contact line dynamics based on energy-dissipation modeling. The corresponding model is reduced to a thin-film equation and its variational structure is also constructed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-21 Dirk Peschka

Numerical heat and mass transfer analysis of a configuration where a cool liquid hydrocarbon is suddenly introduced to a hotter gas at supercritical pressure shows that a well-defined phase equilibrium can be established before substantial…

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We study both diffuse and sharp liquid-vapor interfaces. The equilibrium equation of fluids is derived by using the principle of virtual work in a domain including the interfaces. For diffuse interfaces, the surface tension coefficient…

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We cope with a free boundary fluid-structure interaction model. In the model, the viscous incompressible fluid interacts with elastic body via the common boundary. The motion of the fluid is governed by Navier-Stokes equations while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Yizhao Qin , Pengfei Yao

We analyze the evolution of thin liquid droplets in the lubrication approximation with different slip conditions at the liquid-solid interface. Motivated by the classical no-slip paradox which states that the Navier-Stokes equations with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Hans Knuepfer , Juan Velazquez

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-08 H. Abels , H. Garcke , G. Grün

We consider a two-phase flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids which are separated by a sharp interface in the case of a simple phase transition. In this model the interface is no longer material and its evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

The dynamics of the deformations of a moving contact line is formulated. It is shown that an advancing contact line relaxes more quickly as compared to the equilibium case, while for a receding contact line there is a corresponding slowing…

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A molecular-dynamics type simulation method, which is suitable for investigating the dewetting dynamics of thin and viscous liquid layers, is discussed. The efficiency of the method is exemplified by studying a two-parameter depinning-like…

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When a liquid slams into a solid, the intermediate gas is squeezed out at a speed that diverges when approaching the moment of impact. Although there is mounting experimental evidence that instabilities form on the liquid interface during…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Devaraj van der Meer

We investigate interfacial fluid dynamics and heat transfer at nanoscales using an improved diffuse interface approach for liquid-vapor interfaces in non-equilibrium. Conventional Navier-Stokes-Korteweg (NSK) formulations often fail to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Rahul Bhattacharjee , Henning Struchtrup , Anirudh Singh Rana

This paper presents a rigorous derivation of an effective model for fluid flow through a thin elastic porous membrane separating two fluid bulk domains. The microscopic setting involves a periodically structured porous membrane composed of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

Curved fluid interfaces are investigated on the nanometre length scale by molecular dynamics simulation. Thereby, droplets surrounded by a metastable vapour phase are stabilized in the canonical ensemble. Analogous simulations are conducted…

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

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