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Within this work, we present a novel approach to fracture simulations based on shape optimization techniques. Contrary to widely-used phase-field approaches in literature the proposed method does not require a specified 'length-scale'…

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We formulate a general shape and topology optimization problem in structural optimization by using a phase field approach. This problem is considered in view of well-posedness and we derive optimality conditions. We relate the diffuse…

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In this paper, we study a hydrodynamical system modeling the deformation of vesicle membrane under external incompressible viscous flow fields. The system is in the Eulerian formulation and is governed by the coupling of the incompressible…

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This work presents a stabilized finite element formulation of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) surface theory for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving manifolds developed in Sauer (2025). The formulation is physically frame-invariant,…

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We consider the numerical approximations of a two-phase hydrodynamics coupled phase-field model that incorporates the variable densities, viscosities and moving contact line boundary conditions. The model is a nonlinear, coupled system that…

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We present the components of a high-order accurate Navier-Stokes solver designed to simulate high-Reynolds-number stratified flows. The proposed numerical model addresses some of the numerical and computational challenges that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 Nidia Reyes-Gil , Greg Thomsen , Kristopher Rowe , Peter Diamessis

A system of partial differential equations for a diffusion interface model is considered for the stationary motion of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous Newtonian fluids in a three-dimensional bounded domain. The governing equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Zhilei Liang , Dehua Wang

In this paper, we introduce a model describing the dynamic of vesicle membranes within an incompressible viscous fluid in $3D$ domains. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, with an extra stress tensor depending on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Blanca Climent-Ezquerra , Francisco Guillén-González

Having a finite interfacial thickness, the phase-field models supply a way to model the fluid interfaces, which allows the calculations of the interface movements and deformations on the fixed grids. Such modeling is applied to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

We consider an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system arising in the modeling of fluid-membrane interaction. The fluid dynamics is governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which are…

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In this note, the importance of spectral properties of viscous flux discretization in solving compressible Navier-Stokes equations for turbulent flow simulations is discussed. We studied six different methods, divided into two different…

In recent literature several derivations of incompressible Navier-Stokes type equations that model the dynamics of an evolving fluidic surface have been presented. These derivations differ in the physical principles used in the modeling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Philip Brandner , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

Geometrically parametrized Partial Differential Equations are nowadays widely used in many different fields as, for example, shape optimization processes or patient specific surgery studies. The focus of this work is on some advances for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-21 Matteo Zancanaro , Markus Mrosek , Giovanni Stabile , Carsten Othmer , Gianluigi Rozza

We consider the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid on a compact Riemannian manifold $\sM$ with boundary. The motion on $\sM$ is modeled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and the fluid is subject to pure or partial slip…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Yuanzhen Shao , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

We propose an efficient numerical method for the simulation of multi-phase flows with moving contact lines in three dimensions. The mathematical model consists of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the two immiscible fluids with…

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Models for fluid deformable surfaces provide valid theories to describe the dynamics of thin fluidic sheets of soft materials. To use such models in morphogenesis and development requires to incorporate active forces. We consider active…

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We develop and implement a novel lattice Boltzmann scheme to study multicomponent flows on curved surfaces, coupling the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations with the Cahn-Hilliard equation to track the evolution of the binary fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Victor E. Ambruş , Sergiu Busuioc , Alexander J. Wagner , Fabien Paillusson , Halim Kusumaatmaja

The Volume-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations are used to study fluid flow in the presence of fixed or moving solids such as packed or fluidized beds. We develop a high-order finite element solver using both forms A and B of these equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Toni El Geitani , Shahab Golshan , Bruno Blais

A new arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving surfaces is presented. It is based on a general curvilinear surface parameterization that describes the motion of the ALE frame. Its in-plane part…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-10 Roger A. Sauer

This article deals with a particular class of shape and topology optimization problems: the optimized design is a region $G$ of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a given domain $\Omega$, which supports a particular type of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Eric Bonnetier , Carlos Brito-Pacheco , Charles Dapogny , Rafael Estevez