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In this article, we propose a novel conservative diffuse-interface method for the simulation of immiscible compressible two-phase flows. The proposed method discretely conserves the mass of each phase, momentum and total energy of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Suhas S. Jain , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin

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

We consider a diffuse interface model for an incompressible isothermal mixture of two viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities in a bounded domain in two or three space dimensions. The model is the nonlocal version of the one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Sergio Frigeri

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we study a new model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, Stable Diffusion (SD) has emerged as a state-of-the-art framework for high-fidelity im-age synthesis. However, existing SD models suffer from suboptimal feature aggregation,…

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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…

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We consider sharp interface asymptotics for a phase field model of two phase near spherical biomembranes involving a coupling between the local mean curvature and the local composition proposed by the first and second authors. The model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Charles M. Elliott , Luke Hatcher , Björn Stinner

Pattern formation in soft, active, and biological matter is described by two ostensibly distinct continuum frameworks: phase-field theories driven by chemical-potential gradients, and mass-conserving reaction-diffusion (McRD) dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-15 Daniel Zhou , Erwin Frey

Continuum mathematical models for collective cell motion normally involve reaction-diffusion equations, such as the Fisher-KPP equation, with a linear diffusion term to describe cell motility and a logistic term to describe cell…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Scott W McCue , Wang Jin , Timothy J Moroney , Kai-Yin Lo , Shih-En Chou , Matthew J Simpson

This article studies a dirichlet boundary value problem for singularly perturbed time delay convection diffusion equation with degenerate coefficient. A priori explicit bounds are established on the solution and its derivatives. For…

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This article concerns a systemic manifestation of small scale interfacial heterogeneities in large scale quantities of interest to a variety of diverse applications spanning the earth, biological and ecological sciences. Beginning with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Jorge M. Ramirez , Enrique A. Thomann , Edward C. Waymire

We consider a class of bulk-surface coupled Cahn-Hilliard systems in a smooth, bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, where the trace value of the bulk phase variable is connected to the surface phase variable via a…

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We construct several examples related to the scaling limits of energy minimizers and gradient flows of surface energy functionals in heterogeneous media. These include both sharp and diffuse interface models. The focus is on two separate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-09 William M Feldman , Peter S Morfe

Conventional phase-field models often drive solid-solid interfaces to coalesce when in close proximity. This feature limits their use for processes like diffusion bonding, where the interfaces might need to remain distinct under certain…

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In traditional phase-field modeling of multiphase materials, a significant challenge arises from the non-local nature of fracture energy regularization, where interfacial toughness is inherently coupled with the properties of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ye-Hang Qin , Ye Feng

We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierluigi Colli , Patrik Knopf , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

We consider a diffuse interface model for phase separation of an isothermal incompressible binary fluid in a Brinkman porous medium. The coupled system consists of a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase field $\phi$, i.e., the…

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