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A new time discretization scheme for the numerical simulation of two-phase flow governed by a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is presented. The scheme is consistent in the sense that it allows for a discrete in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

We consider a class of optimization problems on the space of probability measures motivated by the mean-field approach to studying neural networks. Such problems can be solved by constructing continuous-time gradient flows that converge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Petra Lazić , Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka

We investigate numerically the influence of an homogeneous shear flow on the spinodal decomposition of a binary mixture by solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation in a two-dimensional geometry. Several aspects of this much studied problem are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ludovic Berthier

High-fidelity flow simulations are indispensable when analyzing systems exhibiting multiphase flow phenomena. The accuracy of multiphase flow simulations is strongly contingent upon the finest mesh resolution used to represent the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Kumar Saurabh , Masado Ishii , Makrand A. Khanwale , Hari Sundar , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

In this paper, we consider a stochastic version of the Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman model in a smooth two- or three-dimensional domain with dynamical boundary conditions. The system describes creeping two-phase flows and is basically a coupling…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Z. Brzeźniak , A. Ndongmo Ngana , T. Tachim Medjo

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

The paper is devoted to the simulation of maritime two-phase flows of air and water. Emphasis is put on an extension of the classical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method by a diffusive contribution derived from a Cahn-Hilliard (CH) model and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Niklas Kühl , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

We present a fast, high-order accurate and adaptive boundary integral scheme for solving the Stokes equations in complex---possibly nonsmooth---geometries in two dimensions. The key ingredient is a set of panel quadrature rules capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Bowei Wu , Hai Zhu , Alex Barnett , Shravan Veerapaneni

In this work, we develop an $\mathcal{O}(N)$ implicit real space method in 1D and 2D for the Cahn Hilliard (CH) and vector Cahn Hilliard (VCH) equations, based on the Method Of Lines Transpose (MOL$^\text{T}$) formulation. This formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Matthew Causley , Hana Cho , Andrew Christlieb

We investigate a new phase field model for representing non-oriented interfaces, approximating their area and simulating their area-minimizing flow. Our contribution is related to the approach proposed in arXiv:2105.09627 that involves ad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Elie Bretin , Antonin Chambolle , Simon Masnou

Motivated by the very low diffusivity recently found in ab initio simulations of liquid water, we have studied its dependence with temperature, system size, and duration of the simulations. We use ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fernandez-Serra , Emilio Artacho

Using the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation as a model, we illuminate the role of advection in phase-separating binary liquids. The advecting velocity is either prescribed, or is determined by an evolution equation that accounts for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-12 Lennon O Naraigh

A finite difference numerical scheme is proposed and analyzed for the Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes system with Flory-Huggins energy functional. A convex splitting is applied to the chemical potential, which in turns leads to the implicit treatment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Yunzhuo Guo , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , Zhengru Zhang

We propose a novel class of temporal high-order parametric finite element methods for solving a wide range of geometric flows of curves and surfaces. By incorporating the backward differentiation formulae (BDF) for time discretization into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

We address the discretization of two-phase Darcy flows in a fractured and deformable porous medium, including frictional contact between the matrix-fracture interfaces. Fractures are described as a network of planar surfaces leading to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Francesco Bonaldi , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson , Antoine Pasteau

This paper studies the characteristics and applicability of the CutFEM approach as the core of a robust topology optimization framework for 3D laminar incompressible flow and species transport problems at low Reynolds number (Re < 200).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Hernan Villanueva , Kurt Maute

Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Meng Li , Yihang Guo , Jingjiang Bi

We analyze a fully discrete finite element numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes-Darcy system that models two-phase flows in coupled free flow and porous media. To avoid a well-known difficulty associated with the coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Wenbin Chen , Daozhi Han , Cheng Wang , Shufen Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Yichao Zhang

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method combined with ab initio calculations has been widely used to study charge transport in molecular junctions. However, the significant computational demands of high-resolution calculations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xuan Ji , Qiang Qi , Yueqi Chen , Chen Zhou , Xi Yu

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…