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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

A novel quantum dynamical model based on the dissipative quantum dynamics of open quantum systems is presented. It allows the treatment of both deep-inelastic processes and quantum tunneling (fusion) within a fully quantum mechanical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexis Diaz-Torres , David Hinde , Mahananda Dasgupta , Gerard Milburn , Jeff Tostevin

Structure, function and dynamics of many biomolecular systems can be characterized by the energetic variational principle and the corresponding systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). This principle allows us to focus on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Guo-Wei Wei , Y. C. Zhou

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 also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

A multiscale theory of interacting continuum mechanics and thermodynamics of mixtures of fluids, electrodynamics, polarization and magnetization is proposed. The mechanical (reversible) part of the theory is constructed in a purely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Petr Vagner , Michal Pavelka , Ogul Esen

There are various methods for modeling phase transformations in materials science, including general classes of phase-field methods and reactive diffusion methodologies, which most importantly differ in their treatment of interface energy.…

We introduce a dissipative particle dynamics scheme for the dynamics of non-ideal fluids. Given a free-energy density that determines the thermodynamics of the system, we derive consistent conservative forces. The use of these effective,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Pagonabarraga , D. Frenkel

The seven-equation model is a compressible multiphase formulation that allows for phasic velocity and pressure disequilibrium. These equations are solved using a diffused interface method that models resolved multiphase flows. Novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Achyut Panchal , Spencer H. Bryngelson , Suresh Menon

In this paper we propose an efficient second order well balanced finite volume method for modeling complex free surface flows at the aid of a simple diffuse interface method. The employed physical model is a two-phase model derived from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Elena Gaburro , Manuel J. Castro , Michael Dumbser

Phase field models for two-phase flow with a surfactant soluble in possibly both fluids are derived from balance equations and an energy inequality so that thermodynamic consistency is guaranteed. Via a formal asymptotic analysis, they are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang

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…

We propose a new diffuse interface model for simulating an inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free surface problem. By using the Onsager's variational principle and the laws of thermodynamics, we derive a thermodynamically consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jiancheng Wang , Maojun Li , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

An interface control principle is proposed for unsteady fluid-structure in- teraction (FSI) analyses. This principle introduces a method of explicitly controlling the interface motion in the temporal direction to minimize the residual force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chungil Lee , Yoshiaki Abe , Yu Kawano , Tomoki Yamazaki

In this work, we propose a fully discrete energy stable scheme for the phase-field moving contact line model with variable densities and viscosities. The mathematical model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation, a Navier-Stokes equation and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Guangpu Zhu , Huangxin Chen , Aifen Li , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao

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

Particle methods are less computationally efficient than grid based numerical solution of the Navier Stokes equation. However, they have important advantages including rigorous mass conservation, momentum conservation and isotropy. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-26 Paul Meakin , Zhijie Xu

The diffuse interface model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals is often used to study various aspects of multi-phase flows such as droplets coalescence and contact line dynamics. The original model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals uses an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-29 Lionel Hirschberg , Avraham Hirschberg

We quantitatively study the interaction between diffusion and mixing in both the continuous, and discrete time setting. In discrete time, we consider a mixing dynamical system interposed with diffusion. In continuous time, we consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer

This work is devoted to the study of dissipative fluid systems, through the lens of a geometric variational formulation. Building upon previous works extending Hamilton's principle to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the present method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bastien Manach-Pérennou , François Gay-Balmaz