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Phase interfaces in melting and solidification processes are strongly affected by the presence of convection in the liquid. One way of modeling their transient evolution is to couple an incompressible flow model to an energy balance in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-11 Alexander G. Zimmerman , Julia Kowalski

Computational modeling of faulting processes is an essential tool for understanding earthquake mechanics but remains challenging due to the structural and material complexities of fault zones. The phase-field method has recently enabled…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Fan Fei , Md Shumon Mia , Ahmed E. Elbanna , Jinhyun Choo

With the aim of efficiently simulating three-dimensional multiphase turbulent flows with a phase-field method, we propose a new discretization scheme for the biharmonic term (the 4th-order derivative term) of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Ran Liu , Chong Shen Ng , Kai Leong Chong , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

Phase-field methods offer a versatile computational framework for simulating large-scale morphological evolution. However, the applicability and predictability of phase-field models are inherently limited by their ad hoc nature, and there…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-30 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman

The morphogenesis of cells and tissues involves an interplay between chemical signals and active forces on their surrounding surface layers. The complex interaction of hydrodynamics and material flows on such active surfaces leads to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-30 Sebastian Aland , Claudia Wohlgemuth

A modified phase field crystal model in which the free energy may be minimised by an order parameter profile having isolated bumps is investigated. The phase diagram is calculated in one and two dimensions and we locate the regions where…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-31 Mark J. Robbins , Andrew J. Archer , Uwe Thiele , Edgar Knobloch

This contribution presents a diffuse framework for modeling cracks in heterogeneous media. Interfaces are depicted by static phase-fields. This concept allows the use of non-conforming meshes. Another phase-field is used to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Franz Dammaß , René de Borst , Markus Kästner

The diffuse-interface model for two-phase flows with soluble surfactants has garnered considerable attention due to its ability to circumvent the need for Robin boundary condition in the bulk surfactant transport equation. However, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-29 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Luyun Xu , Tian Liu , Huanshu Tan

A phase-field approach describing the dynamics of a strained solid in contact with its melt is developed. By rigorous asymptotic analysis we show that the sharp-interface limit of this model recovers the continuum model equations for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Kassner , Chaouqi Misbah , Judith Mueller , Jens Kappey , Peter Kohlert

A coupled phase-field and hydrodynamic model is introduced to describe a two-phase, weakly compressible smectic (layered phase) in contact with an isotropic fluid of different density. A non-conserved smectic order parameter is coupled to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-02 Eduardo Vitral , Perry H. Leo , Jorge Viñals

This is the second paper of a three-part work the main aim of which is to provide a unified consistent framework for the phase-field modelling of cohesive fracture. Building on the theoretical foundations of the first paper, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Roberto Alessi , Francesco Colasanto , Matteo Focardi

A phase-field formulation is introduced to simulate quantitatively microstructural pattern formation in alloys. The thin-interface limit of this formulation yields a much less stringent restriction on the choice of interface thickness than…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Alain Karma

We consider a two-phase Darcy flow in a fractured and deformable porous medium for which the fractures are described as a network of planar surfaces leading to so-called hybrid-dimensional models. The fractures are assumed open and filled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Francesco Bonaldi , Konstantin Brenner , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson , Antoine Pasteau , Laurent Trenty

We consider a two-phase Darcy flow in a fractured porous medium consisting in a matrix flow coupled with a tangential flow in the fractures, described as a network of planar surfaces. This flow model is also coupled with the mechanical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Francesco Bonaldi , Konstantin Brenner , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson

One of the prevailing challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics is accurate simulation of two-phase flows involving heat and mass transfer across the fluid interface. This is currently an active field of research, which is to some extend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-02 Henning Scheufler , Johan Roenby

A phase-field model that allows for quantitative simulations of low-speed eutectic and peritectic solidification under typical experimental conditions is developed. Its cornerstone is a smooth free-energy functional, designed so that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Folch , M. Plapp

Understanding the microstuctural evolution during the sintering process is of high relevance as it is a key part in many industrial manufacturing processes. Simulations are one avenue to achieve this understanding, especially field-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-17 Marco Seiz , Henrik Hierl , Britta Nestler

In this work, we first propose a diffuse interface model for simulating N phase flows with solid liquid phase change. In this model, a phase field approach is adopted to capture multiphase fluid interfaces, and an enthalpy based formulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang , Xi Liu

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) provides a principled approach to extract physically interpretable spatial modes from time-resolved flow field data, along with a linear model for how the amplitudes of these modes evolve in time. Recently,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-29 Aditya G. Nair , Benjamin Strom , Bingni W. Brunton , Steven L. Brunton

Purpose - This paper presents a first step toward developing a comprehensive methodology for fully resolved numerical simulations of fusion deposition modeling. Design/methodology/approach - A front-tracking/finite volume method previously…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-03 Huanxiong Xia , Jiacai Lu , Sadegh Dabiri , Gretar Tryggvason