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We present an isothermal fluctuating nonlinear hydrodynamic theory of crystallization in molecular liquids. A dynamic coarse-graining technique is used to derive the velocity field, a phenomenology, which allows a direct coupling between…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-15 Gyula I. Tóth , László Gránásy , György Tegze

We present a two-phase field model and a hybrid particle-phase field model to simulate dilute colloidal sedimentation and flotation near a liquid-gas interface (or fluid-fluid interface in general). Both models are coupled to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-01 Alexandra J. Hardy , Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Elsen Tjhung

We introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Cedric Riethmüller , Lars von Wolff , Dominik Göddeke , Christian Rohde

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

The active Phase-Field-Crystal (aPFC) model combines elements of the Toner-Tu theory for self-propelled particles and the classical Phase-Field-Crystal (PFC) model that describes the transition between liquid to crystalline phases. In the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-25 Lukas Ophaus , Johannes Kirchner , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

Phase field crystal (PFC) theory, extensively used for modelling the structure of solids, can be derived from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) via a sequence of approximations. Standard derivations neglect a term of form…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-04 Andrew J. Archer , Daniel J. Ratliff , Alastair M. Rucklidge , Priya Subramanian

Detailed studies of the intriguing field-dependent dynamics and transport properties of confined flowing ferrofluids require efficient mesoscopic simulation methods that account for fluctuating ferrohydrodynamics. Here, we propose such a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Patrick Ilg

The dynamics of phase field crystal (PFC) modeling is derived from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT), for both single-component and binary systems. The derivation is based on a truncation up to the three-point direct correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Feng Huang , K. R. Elder , Nikolas Provatas

This paper presents the variational discretization of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, in which the viscosity and the heat conduction terms are handled within the variational approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Benjamin Couéraud , François Gay-Balmaz

Multicomponent vesicles suspended in viscoelastic fluids are crucial for understanding a variety of physiological processes. In this work, we develop a continuum surface force (CSF) phase-field model to investigate the hydrodynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Zuowei Wen , Navid Valizadeh , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

We derive a phase field crystal model that couples the diffusive evolution of a microscopic structure with the fast dynamics of a macroscopic velocity field, explicitly accounting for the relaxation of elastic excitations. This model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta

The paper extends a stabilized fictitious domain finite element method initially developed for the Stokes problem to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a moving solid. This method presents the advantage to predict an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Sébastien Court , Michel Fournié

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

Modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions are crucial to the success of aerospace engineering. This work addresses a novel hybrid algorithm that models the close coupling between compressible flows and deformable materials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mingshuo Han , Shiwei Hu , Tianbai Xiao , Yonghao Zhang

Transport of electrolytic solutions under influence of electric fields occurs in phenomena ranging from biology to geophysics. Here, we present a continuum model for single-phase electrohydrodynamic flow, which can be derived from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 Gaute Linga , Asger Bolet , Joachim Mathiesen

In this paper, we develop a novel phase-field model for fluid-structure interaction (FSI), that is capable to handle very large deformations as well as topology changes like contact of the solid to the domain boundary. The model is based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Dominic Mokbel , Helmut Abels , Sebastian Aland

The description of a stellar system as a continuous fluid represents a convenient first approximation to stellar dynamics, and its derivation from the kinetic theory is standard. The challenge lies in providing adequate closure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward A. Spiegel , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

The passive conserved Swift-Hohenberg equation (or phase-field-crystal [PFC] model) corresponds to a gradient dynamics for a single order parameter field related to density. It provides a simple microscopic description of the thermodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-28 Max Philipp Holl , Andrew J. Archer , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Edgar Knobloch , Lukas Ophaus , Uwe Thiele

Material properties controlled by evolving defect structures, such as mechanical response, often involve processes spanning many length and time scales which cannot be modeled using a single approach. We present a variety of new results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Joel Berry , Nikolas Provatas , Jörg Rottler , Chad W. Sinclair

In this paper, a pore-scale network modeling method, based on the flow continuity residual in conjunction with a Newton-Raphson non-linear iterative solving technique, is proposed and used to obtain the pressure and flow fields in a network…

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