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This paper is devoted to the numerical study of droplet impact on solid substrates in presence of surfactants. We formulate the problem in an energetically variational framework and introduce an incompressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chenxi Wang , Ming-Chih Lai , Zhen Zhang

In this paper, we design and analyze a novel spectral method for the subdiffusion equation. As it has been known, the solutions of this equation are usually singular near the initial time. Consequently, direct application of the traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Chuanju Xu , Wei Zeng

We present an algorithm to analyze numerically the bounce solution of first-order phase transitions. Our approach is well suited to treat phase transitions with several fields. The algorithm consists of two parts. In the first part the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Konstandin , Stephan J. Huber

Free boundary problems appear naturally in numerous areas of mathematics, science and engineering. These problems present a great computational challenge because they necessitate numerical methods that can yield an accurate approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

A numerical method is devised for study of stochastic partial differential equations describing directed percolation, the contact process, and other models with a continuous transition to an absorbing state. Owing to the heightened…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ronald Dickman

It is demonstrated that the description of surface-diffusion controlled dynamics via the phase-field method is less trivial than it appears at first sight. A seemingly straightforward approach previously used in the literature is shown to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Kassner

The use of continuum phase-field models to describe the motion of well-defined interfaces is discussed for a class of phenomena, that includes order/disorder transitions, spinodal decomposition and Ostwald ripening, dendritic growth, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. R. Elder , Martin Grant , Nikolas Provatas , J. M. Kosterlitz

We develop a numerical a framework to study phoretic particle dynamics in two dimensions. The particles are modeled as chemically active rigid circles, which can emit or absorb a solute into surrounding fluid. The interaction between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-16 Zhe Gou , Alexander Farutin , Chaouqi Misbah

A thermodynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem with temperature-dependent surface tension and with or without kinetic undercooling is studied. It is shown that these problems generate local semiflows in well-defined state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

We study a class of one-dimensional interacting particle systems with random boundaries as a microscopic model for Stefan's melting and freezing problem. We prove that under diffusive rescaling these particle systems exhibit a hydrodynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Landim , Glauco Valle

We investigate nonlinear, higher-order dispersive equations with measure (or even less regular) potentials and initial data with low regularity. Our approach is of distributional nature and relies on the phase space analysis (via Gabor wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Sonia Mazzucchi , Fabio Nicola , S. Ivan Trapasso

We consider the motion of planar phase-transition fronts in first-order phase transitions of the Universe. We find the steady state wall velocity as a function of a friction coefficient and thermodynamical parameters, taking into account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-17 Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

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

The classical phase-field modeling approaches for multiphase problems represent each phase using a regularized characteristic function, which necessarily introduces a simplex constraint for the phase-field variables. Additionally, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Lun Zhang , Chenxi Wang , Nan Lu , Zhen Zhang

Phase field methods have been widely used to study phase transitions and polarization switching in ferroelectric thin films. In this paper, we develop an efficient numerical scheme for the variational phase field model based on variational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Ruotai Li , Qiang Du , Lei Zhang

A few basic, intuitive, properties of the Navier-Stokes system of equations for incompressible fluid flows are discussed in this paper. We present a rephrased interpretation of the Navier-Stokes equation in a space having an arbitrary…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-06-28 R. K. Michael Thambynayagam

Based on static and dynamical density functional theory, a phase-field-crystal model is derived which involves both the translational density and the orientational degree of ordering as well as a local director field. The model exhibits…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Hartmut Löwen

Particle-stabilised emulsions are a cornerstone of soft matter science due to their broad application and fundamental relevance. Computer simulations provide key insights into the formation and behaviour of these emulsions, yet current…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-19 Elisabeth C. Eij , Joost de Graaf , Martin F. Haase , Jesse M. Steenhoff

We investigate the long time behavior of solutions to a shape and topology optimization problem with respect to the time-dependent Navier--Stokes equations. The sought topology is represented by a stationary phase-field that represents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , John Sebastian H. Simon

Using thermodynamic and variational principles we examine a basic phase field model for a mixture of two incompressible fluids in strongly perforated domains. With the help of the multiple scale method with drift and our recently introduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Markus Schmuck , Marc Pradas , Gregorios A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis