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In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional diffuse interface model for the phase separation of an incompressible and isothermal binary fluid mixture with matched densities. This model consists of the Navier--Stokes equations, nonlinearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 S. Frigeri , M. Grasselli , J. Sprekels

We study a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard model for a multicomponent mixture with cross-diffusion effects and degenerate mobility. The nonlocality is described by means of a symmetric singular kernel. We define a notion of weak solution adapted to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Elisa Davoli , Greta Marino , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

We study a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain. The fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but a partial mixing in a small interfacial region is assumed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-01 Helmut Abels

We discuss the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two partly miscible viscous Newtonian fluids of different densities, when a certain parameter \epsilon>0 related to the interface thickness tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Helmut Abels , Daniel Lengeler

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

In modeling phase transitions, it is useful to be able to connect diffuse interface descriptions of the dynamics with corresponding limiting sharp interface motions. In the case of the deep quench obstacle problem (DQOP) and surface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Eric A. Carlen , Amy Novick-Cohen , Lydia Peres Hari

We introduce a diffuse interface model for the phenomenon of electrowetting on dielectric and present an analysis of the arising system of equations. Moreover, we study discretization techniques for the problem. The model takes into account…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Abner J. Salgado , Shawn W. Walker

There are three fundamental physical processes that gives rise to the morphology of a surface: deposition, surface diffusion and desorption. The characteristics of the interfaces generated by the combination of deposition and surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan R. Sanchez

We investigate the sharp material interface limit of the Darcy-Boussinesq model for convection in layered porous media with diffused material interfaces, which allow a gradual transition of material parameters between different layers. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Hongjie Dong , Xiaoming Wang

In this letter, we derive the sharp-interface limit of the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot equations using formal matched asymptotic expansions. We find that in each sub-domain, the quasi-static Biot equations are obtained with domain-specific material…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Erlend Storvik , Carina Bringedal

The hydrodynamic phase field model is applied to the problem of film spreading on a solid surface. The disjoining potential, responsible for modification of the fluid properties near a three-phase contact line, is computed from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 Len M. Pismen , Yves Pomeau

We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flow structure in Wasserstein space to derive a notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Inwon Kim , Alpár R. Mészáros

We propose to model physical effects at the sharp density interface between atmosphere and ocean with the help of diffuse interface approaches for multiphase flows with variable densities. We use the variable-density model proposed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

We propose and study a one-dimensional model which consists of two cross-diffusion systems coupled via a moving interface. The motivation stems from the modelling of complex diffusion processes in the context of the vapor deposition of thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Clément Cancès , Jean Cauvin-Vila , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Virginie Ehrlacher

We consider a diffusion process on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ an energetic variational approach with both surface divergence and transport theorems to derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Hajime Koba

The global existence of bounded weak solutions to a diffusion system modeling biofilm growth is proven. The equations consist of a reaction-diffusion equation for the substrate concentration and a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard-type equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Christoph Helmer , Ansgar Jüngel

The diffuse interface model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals is often used to study various aspects of multi-phase flows such as droplets coalescence and contact line dynamics. The original model of Cahn-Hilliard-van der Waals uses an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-29 Lionel Hirschberg , Avraham Hirschberg

Phase field models for two-phase flow with a surfactant soluble in possibly both fluids are derived from balance equations and an energy inequality so that thermodynamic consistency is guaranteed. Via a formal asymptotic analysis, they are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

We study the sharp interface limit of a non-mass-conserving Cahn--Hilliard--Darcy system with the weak compactness method developed in Chen (J. Differential Geometry, 1996). The source term present in the Cahn--Hilliard component is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Kei Fong Lam