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In this paper, we consider numerical approximations of a hydrodynamically coupled phase field diblock copolymer model, in which the free energy contains a kinetic potential, a gradient entropy, a Ginzburg-Landau double well potential, and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Qing Cheng , Xiaofeng Yang , Jie Shen

The Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system governs the diffuse-interface dynamics of two incompressible and immiscible fluids. We consider a relaxation approximation of the NSCH system that is composed by a system of first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jan Giesselmann , Jens Keim , Fabio Leotta , Christian Rohde

We study two-dimensional (2D) binary-fluid turbulence by carrying out an extensive direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the forced, statistically steady turbulence in the coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes equations. In the absence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-06 Prasad Perlekar , Nairita Pal , Rahul Pandit

A well-known diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. In some recent contributions the standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Pavel Krejčí

In this note, we study the optimal control of a nonisothermal phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type that constitutes an extension of the classical Caginalp model for nonisothermal phase transitions with a conserved order parameter. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper we study the optimal control of a parabolic initial-boundary value problem of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type with zero Neumann boundary conditions. Phase field systems of this type govern the evolution of diffusive phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels , Fredi Tröltzsch

We present a new hybrid direct/iterative approach to the solution of a special class of saddle point matrices arising from the discretization of the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on an Arakawa C-grid. The two-level method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-10 Fred Wubs , Jonas Thies

We study a general Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-Boussinesq system that describes the motion of a mixture of two incompressible Newtonian fluids with thermo-induced Marangoni effects. The Cahn-Hilliard dynamics of the binary mixture is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Lingxi Chen

We propose a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for the flow of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density in a bounded domain. We prove the well-posedness of local-in-time strong solutions by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Alice Marveggio , Andrea Poiatti

We discuss the applicability of a unified hyperbolic model for continuum fluid and solid mechanics to modeling non-Newtonian flows and in particular to modeling the stress-driven solid-fluid transformations in flows of viscoplastic fluids,…

We advance the computation of physical modal expansions for unsteady incompressible flows. Point of departure is a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations around its fixed point in a frequency domain formulation. While the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-24 Marek Morzynski , Wojciech Szeliga , Bernd R. Noack

We consider phase-field models with and without lateral flow for the numerical simulation of lateral phase separation and coarsening in lipid membranes. For the numerical solution of these models, we apply an unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Maxim Olshanskii , Yerbol Palzhanov , Annalisa Quaini

In this work, we address parametric non-stationary fluid dynamics problems within a model order reduction setting based on domain decomposition. Starting from the optimisation-based domain decomposition approach, we derive an optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Ivan Prusak , Davide Torlo , Monica Nonino , Gianluigi Rozza

This paper focuses on the analysis of an optimal control problem governed by a nonsmooth quasilinear partial differential equation that models a stationary incompressible shear-thickening fluid. We start by studying the directional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Juan Carlos De los Reyes , Paola Quiloango

Having a finite interfacial thickness, the phase-field models supply a way to model the fluid interfaces, which allows the calculations of the interface movements and deformations on the fixed grids. Such modeling is applied to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

The increasing size and complexity of modern power systems have led to a high-dimensional mathematical model for transient stability studies, rendering full-scale simulations computationally burdensome. While dimensionality reduction is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Farhana Farooq , Danish Rafiq

In this article we study the local controllability of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equation, that is Cahn-Hilliard-Burgers' equation, around a certain steady state using a localized interior control acting only in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Manika Bag , Sheetal Dharmatti , Subrata Majumdar , Debanjana Mitra

In this paper, we investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a convective viscous Cahn-Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions. Such systems govern phase separation processes between two phases taking place in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

In this article, we investigate the stabilizability of the two- and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with memory effects around a non-constant steady state using a localized interior control. The system is first linearized around a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Wasim Akram , Manika Bag , Manil T. Mohan

We consider settings for which one needs to perform multiple flow simulations based on the Navier-Stokes equations, each having different values for the physical parameters and/or different initial condition data, boundary conditions data,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Zhu Wang