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We consider a diffuse interface approach for solving an elliptic PDE on a given closed hypersurface. The method is based on a (bulk) finite element scheme employing numerical quadrature for the phase field function and hence is very easy to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 John W. Barrett , Klaus Deckelnick , Vanessa Styles

The dynamics of solid-liquid interfaces controlled by solute precipitation and/or dissolution due to the chemical reaction at the interface were computed in two dimensions using a phase field models. Sharp-interface asymptotic analysis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Zhijie Xu , Hai Huang , Xiaoyi Li , Paul Meakin

We present a continuum theory to describe elastically induced phase transitions between coherent solid phases. In the limit of vanishing elastic constants in one of the phases, the model can be used to describe fracture on the basis of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Spatschek , C. Mueller-Gugenberger , E. Brener , B. Nestler

This work proposes a hyper-reduction method for nonlinear parametric dynamical systems characterized by gradient fields such as Hamiltonian systems and gradient flows. The gradient structure is associated with conservation of invariants or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

We present a new technique for the interpolation of discretely-sampled non-negat ive scalar fields across regions of missing data. Any set of basis functions can be used, though the method is fastest when they are close to orthogonal. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Will Saunders , Bill E. Ballinger

Phase-field modeling -- a continuous approach to discontinuities -- is gaining popularity for simulating rock fractures due to its ability to handle complex, discontinuous geometry without an explicit surface tracking algorithm. None of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Fan Fei , Jinhyun Choo , Chong Liu , Joshua A. White

The phase field model can accurately simulate the evolution of microstructures with complex morphologies, and it has been widely used for cell modeling in the last two decades. However, compared to other cellular models such as the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 Xiangyu Kuang , Guoye Guan , Chao Tang , Lei Zhang

We consider a non-isothermal multi-phase field model. We subsequently discretize implicitly in time and with linear finite elements. The arising algebraic problem is formulated in two variables where one is the multi-phase field, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Carsten Gräser , Max Kahnt , Ralf Kornhuber

We describe the implementation of a topological constraint in finite element simulations of phase field models which ensures path-connectedness of preimages of intervals in the phase field variable. Two main applications of our method are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Patrick Dondl , Stephan Wojtowytsch

In this paper, we propose an improved phase field model for interface capturing in simulating two-phase incompressible flows. The model incorporates a second-order diffusion term, which utilizes a nonlinear coefficient to assess the degree…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-20 Jing-Wei Chen , Chun-Yu Zhang , Hao-Ran Liu , Hang Ding

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

We introduce a phenomenological continuum model for mode III dynamic fracture that is based on the phase-field methodology used extensively to model interfacial pattern formation. We couple a scalar field, which distinguishes between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Alain Karma , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been applied to simulate multiphase flows, yet they are limited in modeling phase changes and sharp interfaces due to optimization conflicts in the strongly coupled Allen-Cahn, Cahn-Hilliard,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Guoqiang Lei , Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , D. Exposito , Xuerui Mao

We present a new mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems that converges on grids with \textit{curved} (i.e., non-planar) faces. Crucially, it gives a symmetric discrete problem that uses only one discrete unknown per curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Silvano Pitassi , Riccardo Ghiloni , Igor Petretti , Francesco Trevisan , Ruben Specogna

In this paper, we propose a variational Lagrangian scheme for a modified phase-field model, which can compute the equilibrium states for the original Allen-Cahn type model. Our discretization is based on a prescribed energy-dissipation law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang

This paper presents an adaptive strategy for phase-field simulations with transition to fracture. The phase-field equations are solved only in small subdomains around crack tips to determine propagation, while an XFEM discretization is used…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alba Muixí , Onofre Marco , Antonio Rodríguez-Ferran , Sonia Fernández-Méndez

This contribution presents a diffuse framework for modeling cracks in heterogeneous media. Interfaces are depicted by static phase-fields. This concept allows the use of non-conforming meshes. Another phase-field is used to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Franz Dammaß , René de Borst , Markus Kästner

In some cases, computational benefit can be gained by exploring the hyper parameter space using a deterministic set of grid points instead of a Markov chain. We view this as a numerical integration problem and make three unique…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-30 Chaitanya Joshi , Paul T. Brown , Stephen Joe

We analyze a phase-field approximation of a sharp-interface model for two- phase materials proposed by M. Silhavy [32, 33]. The distinguishing trait of the model resides in the fact that the interfacial term is Eulerian in nature, for it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Diego Grandi , Martin Kruzik , Edoardo Mainini , Ulisse Stefanelli

The present work proposes an approach for fluid-solid and contact interaction problems including thermo-mechanical coupling and reversible phase transitions. The solid field is assumed to consist of several arbitrarily-shaped, undeformable…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sebastian L. Fuchs , Christoph Meier , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christian J. Cyron