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We propose to model physical effects at the sharp density interface between atmosphere and ocean with the help of diffuse interface approaches for multiphase flows with variable densities. We use the variable-density model proposed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

Directional solidification of water-based solutions has emerged as a versatile technique for templating hierarchical porous materials. However, the underlying mechanisms of pattern formation remain incompletely understood. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Kaihua Ji , Alain Karma

We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem in the Eulerian, phase-field formulation. The problem is described using the Navier--Stokes equations for a viscous, incompressible fluid, coupled with the incompressible hyperelasticity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Francis R. A. Aznaran , Martina Bukač , Boris Muha

We prove convergence of suitable subsequences of weak solutions of a diffuse interface model for the two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities with a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

The Cahn-Hilliard system has been used to describe a wide number of phase separation processes, from co-polymer systems to lipid membranes. In this work the convergence properties of a closest-point based scheme is investigated. In place of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Prerna Gera , David Salac

We present a finite element based variational interface-preserving and conservative phase-field formulation for the modeling of incompressible two-phase flows with surface tension dynamics. The preservation of the hyperbolic tangent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiaoyu Mao , Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev Jaiman

We develop a phase-field model for evaporation from a porous medium by explicitly considering a vapor component together with the liquid and gas phases in the system. The phase-field model consists of the conservation of mass (for phases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Tufan Ghosh , Carina Bringedal , Christian Rohde , Rainer Helmig

In this paper, we aim to study the motions of interfaces and coarsening rates governed by the time-fractional Cahn--Hilliard equation (TFCHE). It is observed by many numerical experiments that the microstructure evolution described by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Tao Tang , Boyi Wang , Jiang Yang

In this paper, we study the sharp interface limit for solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with disparate mobilities. This means that the mobility function degenerates in one of the two energetically favorable configurations, suppressing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Milan Kroemer , Tim Laux

In this work we introduce novel numerical schemes for a penalized version of the ternary Cahn-Hilliard system for the purpose of creating accurate and efficient numerical schemes of interfacial dynamics with three components as well as some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Justin Swain , Giordano Tierra

We perform computer simulations of a Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation which has dynamical asymmetry between the two coexisting phases. The dynamical asymmetry is incorporated by considering a mobility function which is order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rajeev Ahluwalia

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

Efficient and energy stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for the study of nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and study two linearly stabilized second order semi-implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

We present a novel partitioned iterative formulation for modeling of fluid-structure interaction in two-phase flows. The variational formulation consists of a stable and robust integration of three blocks of differential equations, viz.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev K. Jaiman

In the recent breakthrough work \cite{xu2023lack}, a rigorous numerical analysis was conducted on the numerical solution of a scalar ODE containing a cubic polynomial derived from the Allen-Cahn equation. It was found that only the implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Pansheng Li , Dongling Wang

In this article we consider the numerical modeling and simulation via the phase field approach of two-phase flows of different densities and viscosities in superposed fluid and porous layers. The model consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Xiaoming He , Ulrich Rüde

A nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard model with a nonsmooth potential of double-well obstacle type that promotes sharp interfaces in the solution is presented. To capture long-range interactions between particles, a nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

The finite solid-liquid interface width in phase field models results in non-equilibrium effects, including solute trapping. Prior phase field modeling has shown that this extra degree of freedom, when compared to sharp-interface models,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-07 Arnab Mukherjee , James A. Warren , Peter W. Voorhees

The flow of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluids with unmatched densities is studied, where a transfer of mass between the constituents by phase transition is taken into account. To this end, two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Julia Wittmann