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The problem of two-phase flow in straight capillaries of polygonal cross section displays many of the dynamic characteristics of rapid interfacial motions associated with pore-scale displacements in porous media. Fluid inertia is known to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-03 Alexander Yelkhovsky , W. Val Pinczewski

We study the mixing in the presence of convective flow in a porous medium. Convection is characterized by the formation of vortices and stagnation points, where the fluid interface is stretched and compressed enhancing mixing. We analyze…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 Juan J. Hidalgo , Marco Dentz

The propagation and roughening of a liquid-gas interface moving through a disordered medium under the influence of capillary forces is considered. The system is described by a phase-field model with conserved dynamics and spatial disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dube , M. Rost , K. Elder , M. Alava , S. Majaniemi , T. Ala-Nissila

A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Faraz Salimnezhad , Hasret Turkeri , Iskender Gokalp , Metin Muradoglu

Long liquid retention times in industrial gaps, due to capillary effects, significantly affect product lifetime by facilitating corrosion on solid surfaces. Concentration-driven evaporation plays a major role in mitigating this corrosion.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-20 Phil Namesnik , Alexander Eifert , Anja Lippert , Louis Mett , Uwe Janoske

This paper presents a method for modelling interfacial mass transfer in Interface Capturing simulations of two-phase flow with phase change. The model enables mechanistic prediction of the local rate of phase change at the vapour-liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 G. Giustini , R. I. Issa , M. J. Bluck

We study the spatio-temporal dynamics of water uptake by capillary condensation from unsaturated vapor in mesoporous silicon layers (pore radius $r_\mathrm{p} \simeq 2$ nm), taking advantage of the local changes in optical reflectance as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-21 Olivier Vincent , Bastien Marguet , Abraham Stroock

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee

We present a computational framework to address the flow of two immiscible viscous liquids which co-flow into a shallow rectangular container at one side, and flow out into a holding container at the opposite side. Assumptions based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-02 Shahriar Afkhami , Yuriko Renardy

Thermally excited capillary waves at fluid interfaces in binary liquid mixtures exhibit simultaneously both density and composition fluctuations. Based on a density functional theory for inhomogeneous binary liquid mixtures we derive an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Hiester , S. Dietrich , Klaus Mecke

Boundary conditions at the interface between the free-flow region and the adjacent porous medium is a key issue for physically consistent modeling and accurate numerical simulation of flow and transport processes in coupled systems due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Elissa Eggenweiler , Iryna Rybak

The relationship between the spatiotemporal distribution of oxygen transport and blood flow dynamics, accounting for the motion and deformation of individual red blood cells (RBCs), is of fundamental importance for understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 Naoki Takeishi , Junya Kobayashi , Shigeo Wada , Satoshi Ii

This work investigates the capillary rise dynamics of highly wetting liquids in a divergent U-tube in the microgravity conditions provided by 78th European Space Agency (ESA) parabolic flight. This configuration produces a capillary-driven…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-26 Domenico Fiorini , Alessia Simonini , Johan Steelant , David Seveno , Miguel A. Mendez

We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

Imbibition phenomena have been widely used experimentally and theoretically to study the kinetic roughening of interfaces. We critically discuss the existing experiments and some associated theoretical approaches on the scaling properties…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dube , M. Rost , M. Alava

We formally derive interface conditions for modeling fractures in Darcy flow problems and, more generally, thin inclusions in heterogeneous diffusion problems expressed as the divergence of a flux. Through a formal integration of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Marco Favino

Flood front is the jump interface where fluids distribute discontinuously, whose interface condition is the theoretical basis of a mathematical model of the multiphase flow in porous medium. The conventional interface condition at the jump…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-18 Xiaolong Peng , Fei Mo , Zhimin Du

A multispecies diffuse interface model is formulated in a fluctuating hydrodynamics framework for the purpose of simulating surfactant interfaces at the nanoscale. The model generalizes previous work to ternary mixtures, employing a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 John B. Bell , Andrew Nonaka , Alejandro L. Garcia

This work demonstrates a computational framework for simulating vaporizing, liquid-gas flows. It is developed for the general vaporization problem which solves the vaporization rate based as from the local thermodynamic equilibrium of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 John Palmore , Olivier Desjardins

The main aim of this study is to find the best, most rapid, and the most accurate numerical method to find the liquid-gas interface of capillary driven flow during the time in circular Microchannels by using COMSOL Multiphysics software.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Arshya Bamshad , Alireza Nikfarjam , Mohammad Hossein Sabour , Hassan Raji