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In this work, physics-informed neural networks are applied to incompressible two-phase flow problems. We investigate the forward problem, where the governing equations are solved from initial and boundary conditions, as well as the inverse…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-26 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Stefan Adami , Nikolaus A. Adams

This paper enhances the Diffuse Interface Method (DIM) for simulating compressible multiphase flows across all Mach numbers by addressing the accuracy challenges posed at low Mach regimes. A correction to the Riemann solver is introduced,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Ghanshyam Bharate , J. C. Mandal

The general problem of two-phase transport in phase-field models is analyzed: the flux of a conserved quantity is driven by the gradient of a potential through a medium that consists of domains of two distinct phases which are separated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Matteo Nicoli , Mathis Plapp , Hervé Henry

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 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

We develop two adaptive finite difference methods for the numerical simulation of the Willmore flow, employing the kth-order backward differentiation formula (BDFk) for time discretization, together with monitor functions for dynamic mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Zhenghua Duan , Meng Li

Diffusion-driven flow is a boundary layer flow arising from the interplay of gravity and diffusion in density-stratified fluids when a gravitational field is non-parallel to an impermeable solid boundary. This study investigates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-23 Lingyun Ding

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

In this article, we propose a novel scalar-transport model for the simulation of scalar quantities in two-phase flows with a phase-field method (diffuse-interface method). In a two-phase flow, the scalar quantities typically have disparate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-24 Suhas S. Jain , Ali Mani

The unsigned p-Willmore functional introduced in \cite{mondino2011} generalizes important geometric functionals which measure the area and Willmore energy of immersed surfaces. Presently, techniques from \cite{dziuk2008} are adapted to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Anthony Gruber , Eugenio Aulisa

This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Yadong Liu , Dennis Trautwein

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We formulate a general shape and topology optimization problem in structural optimization by using a phase field approach. This problem is considered in view of well-posedness and we derive optimality conditions. We relate the diffuse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Luise Blank , Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Christoph Rupprecht

In this paper, we propose an improved phase field model for interface capturing in simulating two-phase incompressible flows. The model incorporates a second-order diffusion term, which utilizes a nonlinear coefficient to assess the degree…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-20 Jing-Wei Chen , Chun-Yu Zhang , Hao-Ran Liu , Hang Ding

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

We develop a model describing the behavior of two-phase ferrofluid flows using phase field-techniques and present an energy-stable numerical scheme for it. For a simplified, yet physically realistic, version of this model and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Abner J. Salgado , Ignacio Tomas

We propose a two-point flux approximation finite-volume scheme for the approximation of two cross-diffusion systems coupled by a free interface to account for vapor deposition. The moving interface is addressed with a cut-cell approach,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Clément Cancès , Jean Cauvin-Vila , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Virginie Ehrlacher

We apply a phase field approach for a general shape optimization problem of a stationary Navier-Stokes flow. To be precise we add a multiple of the Ginzburg--Landau energy as a regularization to the objective functional and relax the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht

We investigate the shallow flow of viscous fluid into and out of a channel whose gap width increases as a power-law ($x^n$), where $x$ is the downstream axis. The fluid flows slowly, while injected at a rate in the form of $t^\alpha$, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-13 M-S. Liu , H. E. Huppert

We use a diffuse interface method for solving Poisson's equation with a Dirichlet condition on an embedded curved interface. The resulting diffuse interface problem is identified as a standard Dirichlet problem on approximating regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Matthias Schlottbom