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In the present study we investigate analytically the process of velocity and energy relaxation in two-phase flows. We begin our exposition by considering the so-called six equations two-phase model [Ishii1975, Rovarch2006]. This model…

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A conforming finite element scheme with mixed explicit-implicit time discretization for quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Maxwell-Stefan systems in a bounded domain with periodic boundary conditions is presented. The system consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Ansgar Jüngel , Maria Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

The level-set method is a popular interface tracking method in two-phase flow simulations. An often-cited reason for using it is that the method naturally handles topological changes in the interface, e.g. merging drops, due to the implicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-29 Åsmund Ervik , Karl Yngve Lervåg , Svend Tollak Munkejord

We present and analyze a variational front-tracking method for a sharp-interface model of multiphase flow. The fluid interfaces between different phases are represented by curve networks in two space dimensions (2d) or surface clusters in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

We propose a nonlinear Discrete Duality Finite Volume scheme to approximate the solutions of drift diffusion equations. The scheme is built to preserve at the discrete level even on severely distorted meshes the energy / energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Clément Cancès , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Stella Krell

A consistent treatment of the coupling of surface energy and elasticity within the multi-phase- field framework is presented. The model accurately reproduces stress distribution in a number of analytically tractable, yet non-trivial, cases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Raphael Schiedung , Ingo Steinbach , Fathollah Varnik

This paper is devoted to the robust approximation with a variational phase field approach of multiphase mean curvature flows with possibly highly contrasted mobilities. The case of harmonically additive mobilities has been addressed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Eric Bonnetier , Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou

The interfacial diffusion associated with finite volume method (FVM) discretizations of multiphase flows creates the need for an interface sharpening mechanism. Such solutions for structured quadrilateral grids are well documented, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. Marziale , J. Sun , D. Salac , J. Chen

We present a linear, second order fully discrete numerical scheme on a staggered grid for a thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field model of binary compressible fluid flow mixtures derived from the generalized Onsager…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

The following paper presents two simulation strategies for compressible two-phase or multicomponent flows. One is a full non-equilibrium model in which the pressure and velocity are driven towards the equilibrium at interfaces by numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Rémi Abgrall , Paola Bacigaluppi , Barbara Re

Many multiphase fluid systems, such as those involving immiscible polymers or liquid-liquid systems with surfactants, have shown a breakdown of the no-slip condition at the material interface. This results in systems where the tangential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-05 Afsoun Rahnama Falavarjani , David Salac

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

A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Modesar Shakoor , Chung Hae Park

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

In this work, a concise and robust computational framework is proposed to simulate compressible multi-phase multi-component flows. To handle both shocks and material interfaces, a positivity-preserving ENO-type scheme is coupled with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-22 Henry Collis , Deniz A. Bezgin , Shahab Mirjalili , Ali Mani

Accurate long-term predictions of large-scale flow features on planets are crucial for understanding global atmospheric and oceanic systems, necessitating the development of numerical methods that can preserve essential physical structures…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-10 Arnout Franken , Erwin Luesink , Sagy Ephrati , Bernard Geurts

We consider here a fully discrete variant of the implicit variational scheme for mean curvature flow [AlmTayWan,LucStu], in a setting where the flow is governed by a crystalline surface tension defined by the limit of pairwise interactions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Antonin Chambolle , Daniele De Gennaro , Massimiliano Morini

Entropy conservation and stability of numerical methods in gas dynamics have received much interest. Entropy conservative numerical fluxes can be used as ingredients in two kinds of schemes: Firstly, as building blocks in the subcell flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Hendrik Ranocha

Phase separation of multicomponent liquid mixtures plays an integral part in many processes ranging from industry to cellular biology. In many cases the morphology of coexisting phases is crucially linked to the function of the separated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Sheng Mao , Milena S. Chakraverti-Wuerthwein , Hunter Gaudio , Andrej Kosmrlj

Within the context of Eulerian approaches, we aim to develop a new interface-capturing solver to predict two-phase flow in 2D/3D Cartesian meshes. To achieve mass conservation and to capture interface topology accurately, a mass-preserving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Hao-Liang Wen , Ching-Hao Yu , Tony Wen-Hann Sheu