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While various phase-field models have recently appeared for two-phase fluids with different densities, only some are known to be thermodynamically consistent, and practical stable schemes for their numerical simulation are lacking. In this…

We introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Cedric Riethmüller , Lars von Wolff , Dominik Göddeke , Christian Rohde

We derive a continuum sharp-interface model for moving contact lines with soluble surfactants in a thermodynamically consistent framework. The model consists of the isothermal two-phase incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Quan Zhao , Weiqing Ren , Zhen Zhang

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the commonly used binary fluid-surfactant phase field model that consists two nonlinearly coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations. The main challenge in solving the system numerically is…

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From extensive molecular dynamics simulations on immiscible two-phase flows, we find the relative slipping between the fluids and the solid wall everywhere to follow the generalized Navier boundary condition, in which the amount of slipping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

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

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a contact line. This is a main challenge in numerical simulations of two-phase flows with moving contact lines. We derive a two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-23 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

The sharp-interface limits of a phase-field model with a generalized Navier slip boundary condition for moving contact line problem are studied by asymptotic analysis and numerical simulations. The effects of the {mobility} number as well…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Xianmin Xu , Yana Di , Haijun Yu

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model that describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities and a soluble surfactant in a bounded domain of two or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Bohan Ouyang , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

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

The paper considers a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model of a two-phase flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The model allows for a non-linear dependence of fluid density on the phase-field order parameter. Driven by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Yerbol Palzhanov , Alexander Zhiliakov , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

In this paper, we develop a second-order, fully decoupled, and energy-stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model for two phase flow with variable density and viscosity. We propose a new decoupling Constant Scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Jinpeng Zhang , Li Luo , Xiaoping Wang

In this paper, we present a new computational framework to approximate a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model with variable density and degenerate mobility that preserves the mass of the mixture, the pointwise bounds of the density and the…

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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 consider numerical approximations of a hydrodynamically coupled phase field diblock copolymer model, in which the free energy contains a kinetic potential, a gradient entropy, a Ginzburg-Landau double well potential, and a…

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We investigate a hydrodynamic system of Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard type, which describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with unmatched densities coupled with a soluble chemical species. Derived from Onsager's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

We consider two-phase fluid deformable surfaces as model systems for biomembranes. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-like equations with bending forces. We derive this model using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Elena Bachini , Veit Krause , Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt

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

According to the dynamic van der Waals theory, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for non-isothermal compressible two-phase flows with contact line motion. In this model, fluid temperature is treated as a primary variable,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-11 Junkai Wang , Qiaolin He

We show existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system on a given two-dimensional evolving surface in the case of different densities and a singular (logarithmic) potential. The system describes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti