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A driven system of three species of particle diffusing on a ring is studied in detail. The dynamics is local and conserves the three densities. A simple argument suggesting that the model should phase separate and break the translational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Evans , Y. Kafri , H. M. Koduvely , D. Mukamel

A mesoscopic or coarse-grained approach is presented to study thermo-capillary induced flows. An order parameter representation of a two-phase binary fluid is used in which the interfacial region separating the phases naturally occupies a…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 David Jasnow , Jorge Vinals

A system of partial differential equations for a diffusion interface model is considered for the stationary motion of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous Newtonian fluids in a three-dimensional bounded domain. The governing equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Zhilei Liang , Dehua Wang

We study a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of two-phase incompressible flows driven by the thermo-induced Marangoni effect. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lingxi Chen , Hao Wu

Kinetics of phase separation in a three dimensional single-component Lennard-Jones fluid, that exhibits vapor-liquid transition, is studied via molecular dynamics simulations after quenching homogeneous systems, of different overall…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Sutapa Roy , Subir K. Das

The Cahn-Hilliard equation describes phase separation in binary liquids. Here we study this equation with spatially-varying sources and stirring, or advection. We specialize to symmetric mixtures and time-independent sources and discuss…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-26 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

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

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a classic model of phase separation in binary mixtures that exhibits spontaneous coarsening of the phases. We study the Cahn--Hilliard equation with an imposed advection term in order to model the stirring and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

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

In this work, we apply phase field simulations to examine the coarsening behavior of morphologically complex two-phase microstructures in which the phases have highly dissimilar mobilities, a condition approaching that found in experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-10 W. Beck Andrews , Peter W. Voorhees , Katsuyo Thornton

We analyze a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows influenced by interactions with a soluble chemical substance, encompassing the chemotaxis effect, mass transport, and reactions. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

This note studies Navier-Stokes-Allen-Cahn models for compressible fluids that are mixtures of two incompressible phases whose density ratio eps=rho_1/rho_2 is very small. Under a natural assumption on the mixing energy, it shows the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Heinrich Freistuhler , Matthias Kotschote

In this work, we design and analyze semi/fully-discrete virtual element approximations for the time-dependent Navier--Stokes-Cahn--Hilliard equations, modeling the dynamics of two-phase incompressible fluid flows with diffuse interfaces. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alberth Silgado , Giuseppe Vacca

We study a Cahn--Hilliard two-phase model describing the flow of two viscoelastoplastic fluids, which arises in geodynamics. A phase-field variable indicates the proportional distribution of the two fluids in the mixture. The motion of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Fan Cheng , Robert Lasarzik , Marita Thomas

Using thermodynamic and variational principles we examine a basic phase field model for a mixture of two incompressible fluids in strongly perforated domains. With the help of the multiple scale method with drift and our recently introduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Markus Schmuck , Marc Pradas , Gregorios A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis

We derive a class of Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard systems that models two-phase flows with mass transfer coupled to the process of chemotaxis. These thermodynamically consistent models can be seen as the natural Navier--Stokes analogues…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Kei Fong Lam , Hao Wu

We consider a phase-field model for the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids. This model extends widespread models for two fluid phases by including a third, solid phase, which can evolve due to e.g. precipitation and dissolution.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Lars von Wolff , Iuliu Sorin Pop

The evolution of the microstructure due to spinodal decomposition in phase separated mixtures has a strong impact on the final material properties. In the late stage of coarsening, the system is characterized by the growth of a single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-09 Björn König , Olivier J. J. Ronsin , Jens Harting

We study a quasi-incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard coupled system which describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible incompressible viscous fluids with partial mixing in a small interfacial region and long-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Daozhi Han , Yadong Liu

We derive an effective equation of motion for binary Bose mixtures, which generalizes the Cahn-Hilliard description of classical binary fluids to superfluid systems. Within this approach, based on a microscopic Hamiltonian formulation, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-25 Elisabeth Gliott , Clara Piekarski , Nicolas Cherroret