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Phase-field methods have long been used to model the flow of immiscible fluids. Their ability to naturally capture interface topological changes is widely recognized, but their accuracy in simulating flows of real fluids in practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-10 Baofang Song , Carlos Plana , Jose M. Lopez , Marc Avila

A theoretical study is presented of surface waves at a monomolecular surfactant film between an isotropic liquid and a nematic liquid crystal for the case when the surfactant film is in the isotropic two-dimensional fluid phase and induces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-15 S. V. Lishchuk

Liquid-liquid wetting failure is investigated in a two-dimensional Couette system with two immiscible fluids of arbitrary viscosity. The problem is solved exactly using a sharp interface treatment of hydrodynamics (lubrication theory) as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sbragaglia , K. Sugiyama , L. Biferale

A multispecies diffuse interface model is formulated in a fluctuating hydrodynamics framework for the purpose of simulating surfactant interfaces at the nanoscale. The model generalizes previous work to ternary mixtures, employing a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 John B. Bell , Andrew Nonaka , Alejandro L. Garcia

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

This study presents a novel pressure-based methodology for the efficient numerical solution of a four-equation two-phase diffuse interface model. The proposed methodology has the potential to simulate low-Mach flows with mass transfer. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-12 Andreas D. Demou , Nicoló Scapin , Marica Pelanti , Luca Brandt

We consider sharp interface asymptotics for a phase field model of two phase near spherical biomembranes involving a coupling between the local mean curvature and the local composition proposed by the first and second authors. The model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Charles M. Elliott , Luke Hatcher , Björn Stinner

Two-dimensional Stokes flow with injection and suction is investigated through a second-order, perturbative mode-coupling approach. We examine the time-dependent disturbance of an initially circular interface separating two viscous fluids,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-08 Gabriel Dias Carvalho , Rodolfo Brandão , José A. Miranda

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

We introduce a new phase-field model which allows for simulation of incoherent solid/solid transformations. Contrary to previous models which impose coherency at the interface, the zero shear-stress condition characteristic of incoherent…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jerome Paret

An outstanding characteristic of porous media, desired in many applications, is the large surface area, which facilitates solid-fluid interactions, making porous media an extreme case in colloid and interface science. In two-fluid systems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-23 Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong , Maja Rücker , Alex Hansen , Signe Kjelstrup , Dick Bedeaux

We develop a diffuse solid method that is versatile and accurate for modeling wetting and multiphase flows in highly complex geometries. In this scheme, we harness N + 1-component phase field models to investigate interface shapes and flow…

We propose a general control framework for two-phase flows with variable densities in the diffuse interface formulation, where the distribution of the fluid components is described by a phase field. The flow is governed by the diffuse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

In this paper we consider the flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids in a bounded domain, with different densities and viscosities. This model consists of a coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Mullins-Sekerka type parts,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Helmut Abels , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we introduce a diffuse interface model for describing the dynamics of mixtures involving multiple (two or more) phases. The coupled hydrodynamical system is derived through an energetic variational approach. The total energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-24 J. Brannick , C. Liu , T. Qian , H. Sun

Pure advection of a conservative scalar is relevant to several applications including two-phase flow. Successful numerical schemes must capture the sharp interface between the phases while maintaining a smooth (wrinkle-free) interfacial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yashar Mehmani

The boundary conditions at the deformable interface between two contacting fluids are derived for the general case of the large-amplitude perturbations. The interface is modeled as perturbed free boundary that evolves in time, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-13 Ivan V. Kazachkov

The main goal of these notes is to give a review of the equations for two phase flow problems with an interface between the two phases in a self-contained way, and, in particular, to properly include surface tension into the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-01 Andrea Dziubek

In this work, by considering an isentropic fluid-fluid interaction model with a large symmetric drag force, a commonly used simplified two-fluids flow model is justified as the asymptotic limit. Equations for each fluid component with an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-11 Xin Liu

We propose and study a one-dimensional model which consists of two cross-diffusion systems coupled via a moving interface. The motivation stems from the modelling of complex diffusion processes in the context of the vapor deposition of thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Clément Cancès , Jean Cauvin-Vila , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Virginie Ehrlacher