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We develop a decoupled, first-order, fully discrete, energy-stable scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. This scheme calculates the Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes equations separately, thus effectively decoupling the entire…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Haijun Gao , Xi Li , Minfu Feng

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

In this paper we construct new fully decoupled and high-order implicit-explicit (IMEX) schemes for the two-phase incompressible flows based on the new generalized scalar auxiliary variable approach with optimal energy approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Xiaoli Li , Nan Zheng , Jie Shen , Zhengguang Liu

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

The two-phase Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) mixture model is a key framework for simulating multiphase flows with non-matching densities. Developing fully discrete, energy-stable schemes for this model remains challenging, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Marco F. P. ten Eikelder

We study some optimal control problems associated to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immisible fluids in a two-dimensional bounded domain. The Cahn- Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model consists of a Navier-Stokes equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

We construct a decoupled, first-order, fully discrete, and unconditionally energy stable scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. The scheme is divided into two main parts. The first part involves the calculation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Haijun Gao , Xi Li , Minfu Feng

We construct a numerical scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach in time and the MAC discretization in space for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase field model, and carry out stability and error analysis. The scheme…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Xiaoli Li , Jie Shen

A coupled system of self-organized hydrodynamics and Navier-Stokes equations (SOH-NS), which models self-propelled particles in a viscous fluid, was recently derived by Degond et al. \cite{DMVY-2017-arXiv}, starting from a micro-macro…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Teng-Fei Zhang

This paper investigates the local exponential stabilization of the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations to a given reference trajectory by means of receding horizon control (RHC). The control is realized as a linear combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Behzad Azmi , Stefan Frei , Felix Sauer

In this work, we address some optimal control problems related to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immisible fluids in a two dimensional bounded domain. A distributed optimal control problem is formulated as the minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

The stationary Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard equations are considered, governing the motion of a compressible, two-phase fluid mixture with a diffuse interface. The free energy density in this paper has a singular logarithmic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhilei Liang , Sen Liu , Jiangyu Shuai , Dehua Wang

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

In this article, we analyze a two-level finite element method for the two dimensional time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with non-smooth initial data. It involves solving the non-linear Navier-Stokes problem on a coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Deepjyoti Goswami , Pedro D. Damázio

We present a hybrid spectral element-Fourier spectral method for solving the coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Cahn-Hilliard equations to simulate wall-bounded two-phase flows in a three-dimensional domain which is homogeneous in at least…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. H. Challa , S. Dong , L. D. Zhu

This work presents a macroscopic model for the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids within inhomogeneous porous media. At the pore scale, the flow is governed by the full Navier-Stokes equations while the phase interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Chunhua Zhang , Peiyao Liu , Cheng Peng , Lian-Ping Wang , Zhaoli Guo

Varieties of energy-stable numerical methods have been developed for incompressible two-phase flows based on the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) model in the Eulerian framework, while few investigations have been made in the Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Xiaoyu Feng , Zhonghua Qiao , Shuyu Sun , Xiuping Wang

We introduce a new phase field model for binary mixtures of incompressible micropolar fluids, which are among the simplest categories of fluids exhibiting internal rotations. The model fulfils local and global dissipation inequalities so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Kin Shing Chan , Baoli Hao , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

In this paper, we present a novel second order in time mixed finite element scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with matched densities. The scheme combines a standard second order Crank-Nicholson method for the…

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