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We present a fully Eulerian hybrid immersed-boundary/phase-field model to simulate wetting and contact line motion over any arbitrary geometry. The solid wall is described with a volume-penalisation ghost-cell immersed boundary whereas the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Armin Shahmardi , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

In the present work, a general formulation is proposed to implement the contact angle boundary conditions for the second-order Phase-Field models, which is applicable to $N$-phase $(N \geqslant 2)$ moving contact line problems. To remedy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-27 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

We consider an energy-based boundary condition to impose an equilibrium wetting angle for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase-field model on voxel-set-type computational domains. These domains typically stem from the micro-CT imaging of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-17 Florian Frank , Chen Liu , Alessio Scanziani , Faruk O. Alpak , Beatrice Riviere

We present an hybrid VOF/embedded boundary method allowing to model two-phase flows in presence of solids with arbitrary shapes. The method relies on the coupling of existing methods: a geometric Volume of fluid (VOF) method to tackle the…

A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Faraz Salimnezhad , Hasret Turkeri , Iskender Gokalp , Metin Muradoglu

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 present a new and efficient phase-field solver for viscoelastic fluids with moving contact line based on a dual-resolution strategy. The interface between two immiscible fluids is tracked by using the Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-27 Kazem Bazesefidpar , Luca Brandt , Outi Tammisola

In this paper, we introduce an interfacial profile-preserving approach for phase field modeling for simulating incompressible two-phase flows. While the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation effectively captures the topological evolution of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Chenglin Jiang , Huanshu Tan

In this paper, we introduce a novel way to represent the interface for two-phase flows with phase change. We combine a level-set method with a Cartesian embedded boundary method and take advantage of both. This is part of an effort to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 A. Limare , S. Popinet , C. Josserand , Z. Xue , A. Ghigo

We present numerical simulations of active fluid droplets immersed in an external fluid in 2-dimensions { using} an Immersed Boundary method to simulate the fluid droplet interface as a Lagrangian mesh. We present results from two example…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Carl A. Whitfield , Rhoda J. Hawkins

We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierluigi Colli , Patrik Knopf , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

We consider the impingement of a droplet onto a wall with high impact speed. To model this process we favour a diffuse-interface concept. Precisely, we suggest a compressible Navier--Stokes--Allen--Cahn model. Basic properties of the model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-30 Lukas Ostrowski , Christian Rohde

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-08 Quan Zhao , Shixin Xu , Weiqing Ren

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a moving contact line. This makes numerical simulations challenging, especially when capillary effects are essential for the dynamics of the flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-18 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

This paper proposes a new strategy to implement the free-energy based wetting boundary condition within the phase-field lattice Boltzmann method. The greatest advantage of the proposed method is that the implementation of contact line…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Long Ju , Zhaoli Guo , Bicheng Yan , Shuyu Sun

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…

We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

Incorporating molecular-scale effects in the description of contact line motion is essential for accurately capturing all sources of energy dissipation in wetting dynamics. This holds particularly true in the cases where contact line…

We develop and harness a phase field simulation method to study liquid filling on grooved surfaces. We consider both short-range and long-range liquid-solid interactions, with the latter including purely attractive and repulsive…

The Cahn-Hilliard (C-H) equation, as a classical diffusion-interface method of phase-field, has been extensively employed for simulating two-phase fluid dynamics. However, it suffers from a key challenge in the simulation process,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Fang Xiong , Lei Wang , Xinyue Liu
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