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The paper considers a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model of a two-phase flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The model allows for a non-linear dependence of fluid density on the phase-field order parameter. Driven by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Yerbol Palzhanov , Alexander Zhiliakov , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

In this paper, we develop a phase-field model for binary incompressible (quasi-incompressible) fluid with thermocapillary effects, which allows for the different properties (densities, viscosities and heat conductivities) of each component…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin

The Phase-Field Method (PFM) is employed to simulate two-phase flows with the fully-coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations governing the temporal evolution. The methodology minimizes the total energy functional, accounting for…

Realistic two-phase flow problems of interest often involve high $Re$ flows with high density ratios. Accurate and robust simulation of such problems requires special treatments. In this work, we present a consistent, energy-conserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-24 Shahab Mirjalili , Ali Mani

We consider a variational model for heterogeneous phase separation, based on a diffuse interface energy with moving wells. Our main result identifies the asymptotic behavior of the first variation of the phase field energies as the width of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Likhit Ganedi , Alice Marveggio , Kerrek Stinson

A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Modesar Shakoor , Chung Hae Park

We investigate the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface system that couples the Allen--Cahn equation with the instationary Navier--Stokes system in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \in \{2,3\}$. This model is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sebastian Hensel , Yuning Liu

We show convergence of the Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system to a classical sharp interface model for the two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with same viscosities in a smooth bounded domain in two and three space dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Helmut Abels , Julian Fischer , Maximilian Moser

This paper is devoted to the global well-posedness of two Diffuse Interface systems modeling the motion of an incompressible two-phase fluid mixture in presence of capillarity effects in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Andrea Giorgini , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

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

In the present study, a consistent and conservative Phase-Field model is developed to study thermo-gas-liquid-solid flows with liquid-solid phase change. The proposed model is derived with the help of the consistency conditions and exactly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

This paper is concerned with the motion of a time dependent hypersurface that evolves by mean curvature flow with a a volume constraint. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the well known nonlocal Allen--Cahn equation. Here we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Elie Bretin , Morgan Brassel

In this paper, a fractional step lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to model two-phase flows with large density differences by solving Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.In order to maintain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Chunhua Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Yibao Li

Using a regularized delta function to distribute surfactant interfacial concentration can simplify the computation of the surface gradient operator $\nabla_s$, enabling the phase-field model to effectively simulate Marangoni flows involving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Tian Liu , Huanshu Tan

Insoluble surfactants adsorbed at liquid-liquid or gas-liquid interfaces alter interfacial tension, leading to variations in the normal stress jump and generating tangential Marangoni stresses that can dramatically affect the flow dynamics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zhong-Han Xue , Jacques Magnaudet , Jie Zhang

We present a non-diagonal phase field model for phase transformations with unequal but finite diffusivities in the two phases. This model allows to recover the desired boundary conditions at the interface, and especially the elimination of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-28 G. Boussinot , Efim A. Brener , C. Hueter , R. Spatschek

The Cahn-Hilliard (C-H) equation, as a classical diffusion-interface method of phase-field, has been extensively employed for simulating two-phase fluid dynamics. However, it suffers from a key challenge in the simulation process,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Fang Xiong , Lei Wang , Xinyue Liu

A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split Volume-of-Fluid method generalized for a non-divergence-free liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jordi Poblador-Ibanez , William A. Sirignano

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

In multiphase flow phenomena, bubbles and droplets are advected, deformed, break up into smaller ones, and coalesce with each other. A primary challenge of classical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for such flows is to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-27 Jahrul M Alam