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The propagation and roughening of a liquid-gas interface moving through a disordered medium under the influence of capillary forces is considered. The system is described by a phase-field model with conserved dynamics and spatial disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dube , M. Rost , K. Elder , M. Alava , S. Majaniemi , T. Ala-Nissila

A solid-liquid-gas moving contact line is considered through a diffuse-interface model with the classical boundary condition of no-slip at the solid surface. Examination of the asymptotic behaviour as the contact line is approached shows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-07 David N. Sibley , Andreas Nold , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

We consider the interaction of a compressible fluid with a flexible plate in two space dimensions. The fluid is described by the Navier--Stokes equations in a domain that is changing in accordance with the motion of the structure. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Dominic Breit , Arnab Roy

When a fluid comprised of multiple phases or constituents flows through a network, non-linear phenomena such as multiple stable equilibrium states and spontaneous oscillations can occur. Such behavior has been observed or predicted in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Casey M. Karst , Brian D. Storey , John B. Geddes

Analyzing complex fluid flow problems that involve multiple coupled domains, each with their respective set of governing equations, is not a trivial undertaking. Even more complicated is the elaborate and tedious task of specifying the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexandre Martin , Huaibao Zhang , Kaveh A. Tagavi

Interactions between an evolving solid and inviscid flow can result in substantial computational complexity, particularly in circumstances involving varied boundary conditions between the solid and fluid phases. Examples of such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-30 Emma M. Schmidt , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

The ``no-slip'' boundary condition, i.e., zero fluid velocity relative to the solid at the fluid-solid interface, has been very successful in describing many macroscopic flows. A problem of principle arises when the no-slip boundary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

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

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a finite number of spherical bubbles in a compressible fluid within a bounded open domain of R 3 . The fluid-bubble interaction is described by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Fabien Lespagnol , Matthieu Hillairet

The phenomena of liquid bridge formation due to an applied electric field is investigated. A new solution for the charged catenary is presented which allows to determine the static and dynamical stability conditions where charged liquid…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Klaus Morawetz

Instabilities of fluid-fluid interfaces are ubiquitous in passive soft matter. Adding activity to the interface or either fluid can dramatically change the stability of the interface. Using experiment and theory, we investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-04 Bennett C. Sessa , Federico Cao , Robert A. Pelcovits , Thomas R. Powers , Guillaume Duclos

The evolution of the interface separating a conduit of light, viscous fluid rising buoyantly through a heavy, more viscous, exterior fluid at small Reynolds numbers is governed by the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion. Previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of two immiscible and incompressible fluids in a cylindrical domain, which are separated by a sharp interface. In case that the heavy fluid is situated on top of the light fluid, one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Mathias Wilke

In this paper we consider a fluid-structure interaction problem given by the steady Navier Stokes equations coupled with linear elasticity taken from [Lasiecka, Szulc, and Zochoswki, Nonl. Anal.: Real World Appl., 44, 2018]. An elastic body…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Michael Hintermüller , Axel Kröner

In this paper we study the dynamics of an incompressible viscous fluid evolving in an open-top container in two dimensions. The fluid mechanics are dictated by the Navier-Stokes equations. The upper boundary of the fluid is free and evolves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

We consider a liquid bridge between two identical spheres and provide approximate expressions for the capillary force and the exposed surface area of the liquid bridge as functions of the liquid bridge's total volume and the sphere…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Meysam Bagheri , Sudeshna Roy , Thorsten Pöschel

We investigate compound drops composed of two immiscible nonvolatile partially wetting liquids that slide down an inclined homogeneous smooth solid substrate based on a mesoscopic hydrodynamic two-layer model in full-curvature formulation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Dominik Thy , Jan Diekmann , Uwe Thiele

Platinum-water interfaces underpin many electrochemical energy conversion processes. However, despite decades of research, the real-space liquid structure of these interfaces remains elusive. Using three-dimensional atomic force microscopy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Yitong Li , Qian Ai , Lalith Krishna Samanth Bonagiri , Yingjie Zhang

The idea of working with a near-critical phase-separated liquid mixture whereby the surface tension becomes weak, has recently made the field of laser manipulation of liquid interfaces a much more convenient tool in practice. The…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aslak Hallanger , Iver Brevik , Skjalg Haaland , Roger Sollie

We consider the regularity of an interface between two incompressible and inviscid fluids flows in the presence of surface tension. We obtain local in time estimates on the interface in $H^{\frac32k +1}$ and the velocity fields in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jalal Shatah , Chongchun Zeng