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We present a fully-coupled, implicit-in-time framework for solving a thermodynamically-consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system that models two-phase flows. In this work, we extend the block iterative method presented in Khanwale et…

Accurately modeling the dynamics of high-density ratio ($\mathcal{O}(10^5)$) two-phase flows is important for many material science and manufacturing applications. This work considers numerical simulations of molten metal oscillations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Rabeh , Makrand A. Khanwale , John J. Lee , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

While various phase-field models have recently appeared for two-phase fluids with different densities, only some are known to be thermodynamically consistent, and practical stable schemes for their numerical simulation are lacking. In this…

A novel numerical scheme including time and spatial discretization is offered for coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes governing equation sys-tem in this paper. Variable densities and viscosities are considered in the nu-merical scheme.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Xiaoyu Feng , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

The two-phase Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) mixture model is a key framework for simulating multiphase flows with non-matching densities. Developing fully discrete, energy-stable schemes for this model remains challenging, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Marco F. P. ten Eikelder

We introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Cedric Riethmüller , Lars von Wolff , Dominik Göddeke , Christian Rohde

We present an anisotropic mesh adaptation procedure based on Riemannian metrics for the simulation of two-phase incompressible flows with non-matching densities. The system dynamics are governed by the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes (CHNS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Arthur Bawin , Stéphane Étienne , Cédric Béguin

We present a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for simulating fluid transport across semi-permeable membranes, with a particular focus on osmotic pressure effects. The model extends the classical Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ruihan Guo , Jie Shen , Shixin Xu , Xianmin Xu

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

We propose a novel second order in time numerical scheme for Cahn-Hilliard-Navier- Stokes phase field model with matched density. The scheme is based on second order convex-splitting for the Cahn-Hilliard equation and pressure-projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Daozhi Han , Xiaoming Wang

We show existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system on a given two-dimensional evolving surface in the case of different densities and a singular (logarithmic) potential. The system describes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , John S. Lowengrub

The Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system provides a computationally tractable model that can be used to effectively capture interfacial dynamics in two-phase fluid flows. In this work, we present a semi-implicit, projection-based…

In this article we consider the numerical modeling and simulation via the phase field approach of two-phase flows of different densities and viscosities in superposed fluid and porous layers. The model consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Xiaoming He , Ulrich Rüde

In this paper, we develop a second-order, fully decoupled, and energy-stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model for two phase flow with variable density and viscosity. We propose a new decoupling Constant Scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Jinpeng Zhang , Li Luo , Xiaoping Wang

In this paper, we present a novel second order in time mixed finite element scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with matched densities. The scheme combines a standard second order Crank-Nicholson method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Steven M. Wise

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

The Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system utilizes a diffusive phase-field for interface tracking of multi-phase fluid flows. Recently structure preserving methods for CHNS have moved into focus to construct numerical schemes that, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Jimmy Kornelije Gunnarsson , Robert Klöfkorn

We construct first- and second-order time discretization schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system based on the multiple scalar auxiliary variables approach (MSAV) approach for gradient systems and (rotational) pressure-correction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Xiaoli Li , Jie Shen

This paper presents a robust, adaptive numerical scheme for simulating high density ratio and high shear multiphase flows on locally refined Cartesian grids that adapt to the evolving interfaces and track regions of high vorticity. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Boyce E. Griffith , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla
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