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We present a mesoscale kinetic model for multicomponent flows, augmented with a short range forcing term, aimed at describing the combined effect of surface tension and near-contact interactions operating at the fluid interface level. Such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-25 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Nicola Tirelli , Sauro Succi

We introduce a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density. The main novelty of the present contribution consists in the fact that the effects of temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

Based on a rigorous thermodynamic framework, this work develops a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic model grounded in the Helmholtz free energy formalism. The model maintains full thermodynamic consistency by simultaneously satisfying energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ting Xiao , Qiaolin He

This work extends the results of the recently developed theory of a rather complete thermodynamic formalism for discrete-state, continuous-time Markov processes with and without detailed balance. We aim at investigating the question that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-30 Moises Santillan , Hong Qian

We introduce a new and general continuum thermodynamic framework for the mathematical analysis and computation of adsorption on dynamic interfaces. To the best of our knowledge, there is no formulation available that accounts for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-31 Markus Schmuck , Serafim Kalliadasis

We present an extension of the multiparticle collision dynamics method for flows with complex interfaces, including supramolecular near-contact interactions mimicking the effect of surfactants. The new method is demonstrated for the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Adriano Tiribocchi , Fabio Bonaccorso , Sauro Succi

These lecture notes present an overview of equilibrium statistical mechanics of classical fluids, with special applications to the structural and thermodynamic properties of systems made of particles interacting via the hard-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-24 Andrés Santos

We present a new method for studying equilibrium properties of interacting fluids in an arbitrary external field. The fluid is composed of monodisperse spherical particles with hard-core repulsion and additional interactions of arbitrary…

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We report the observation of a premelting transition at chemically sharp solid-liquid interfaces using molecular-dynamics simulations. The transition is observed in the solid-Al/liquid-Pb system and involves the formation of a liquid…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Yang , Mark Asta , Brian B. Laird

This paper studies a model of two-phase flow with an immersed material viscous interface and a finite element method for numerical solution of the resulting system of PDEs. The interaction between the bulk and surface media is characterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

Multiphase flow phenomena have been widely observed in the industrial applications, yet it remains a challenging unsolved problem. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approaches resolve of the flow fields on finer spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-11 Han Bao , Jinyong Feng , Nam Dinh , Hongbin Zhang

This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

Frictional properties of interfaces with dynamic chemical bonds have been the subject of intensive experimental investigation and modeling, as it provides important insights into the molecular origin of the empirical rate and state laws,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Wengen Ouyang , Yao Cheng , Ming Ma , Michael Urbakh

An overview of some analytical approaches to the computation of the structural and thermodynamic properties of single component and multicomponent hard-sphere fluids is provided. For the structural properties, they yield a thermodynamically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-18 M. Lopez de Haro , S. B. Yuste , A. Santos

We propose a sharp-interface model for solid-state dewetting of thin films with wetting potential, where the wetting effect is incorporated through a thickness-dependent surface energy. The model is governed by surface diffusion together…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Weijie Huang , Xinran Ruan

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee

We derive the entropy production for transport of multi-phase fluids in a non-deformable, porous medium exposed to differences in pressure, temperature, and chemical potentials. Thermodynamic extensive variables on the macro-scale are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-03 Signe Kjelstrup , Dick Bedeaux , Alex Hansen , Bjørn Hafskjold , Olav Galteland

Although it has been shown experimentally that a temperature discontinuity exists at the liquid-vapor interface during evaporation and condensation, quantitatively modeling this temperature jump has been difficult. The classical Schrage…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Gang Chen

A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel M. Kroll

We consider a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model describing two-phase flows of incompressible fluids in a non-isothermal setting. This model was recently introduced in a previous paper of ours, where we proved existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna