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We show well-posedness of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with different densities locally in time. The model leads to an inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system with a solenoidal…

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High-order time-stepping schemes are crucial for simulating incompressible fluid flows due to their ability to capture complex turbulent behavior and unsteady motion. In this work, we propose a third-order accurate numerical scheme for the…

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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…

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