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We propose a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for the flow of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density in a bounded domain. We prove the well-posedness of local-in-time strong solutions by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Alice Marveggio , Andrea Poiatti

We consider a model describing the behavior of a mixture of two incompressible fluids with the same density in isothermal conditions. The model consists of three balance equations: continuity equation, Navier-Stokes equation for the mean…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Berti , V. Berti , D. Grandi

The clearing up of a wave nature of the energy and mass transfer phenomena in classical expressions of the molecular-kinetic theory has allowed to find a quantitative measure of intensity of processes of a thermal conductivity, viscosity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Arsenjev , I. B. Lozovitski , Y. P. Sirik

The Richards' equation is a model for flow of water in unsaturated soils. The coefficients of this (nonlinear) partial differential equation describe the permeability of the medium. Insufficient or uncertain measurements are commonly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Andrea Barth , Andreas Stein

Predicting the flow of non-Newtonian fluids in porous structure is still a challenging issue due to the interplay betwen the microscopic disorder and the non-linear rheology. In this letter, we study the case of an yield stress fluid in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 Chen Liu , Andrea De Luca , Alberto Rosso , Laurent Talon

The paper deals with homogenization of a model problem describing an immiscible compressible two-phase flow in random statistically homogeneous porous media. We derive the effective (macroscopic) problem and prove the convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Brahim Amaziane , Leonid Pankratov , Andrey Piatnitski

Capillary energy barriers have important consequences for immiscible fluid flow in porous media. We derive time-and-space averaging theory to account for non-equilibrium behavior and understand the role of athermal capillary fluctuations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 James E. McClure , Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong

The convective transport in a multicomponent isothermal compressible fluid subject to the mass continuity equations is considered. The velocity is proportional to the negative pressure gradient, according to Darcy's law, and the pressure is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Pierre-Etienne Druet , Ansgar Jüngel

We study the long-time behaviour of the temperature-driven compressible flows. We show that numerical solutions of a structure-preserving finite volume method generate a discrete attractor that consists of entire discrete trajectories.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Eduard Feireisl , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Bangwei She , Yuhuan Yuan

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

A Type-I model of a multicomponent system of fluids with non-constant temperature is derived as the high-friction limit of a Type-II model via a Chapman-Enskog expansion. The asymptotic model is shown to fit into the general theory of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Stefanos Georgiadis , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We investigate the thermal instability of a smooth equilibrium state, in which the density function satisfies Schwarzschild's (instability) condition, to a compressible heat-conducting viscous flow without heat conductivity in the presence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Fei Jiang

We discuss heat conductivity from the point of view of a variational multi-fluid model, treating entropy as a dynamical entity. We demonstrate that a two-fluid model with a massive fluid component and a massless entropy can reproduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-07 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

We consider a system of partial differential equations which describes steady flow of a compressible heat conducting chemically reacting gaseous mixture. We extend the result from Giovangigli, Pokorn\'y, Zatorska (2015) in the sense that we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Tomasz Piasecki , Milan Pokorny

Smooth solutions of the forced incompressible Euler equations satisfy an energy balance, where the rate-of-change in time of the kinetic energy equals the work done by the force per unit time. Interesting phenomena such as turbulence are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Fabian Jin , Samuel Lanthaler , Milton C. Lopes Filho , Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes

The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero-range…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Benjamin Gess , Daniel Heydecker

The work investigates a model that combines a convection-diffusion-reaction equation for solute concentration with an unsteady Darcy-Brinkman equation for the flow field, including the Kortweg stress. Additionally, the flow field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Sahil Kundu , Surya Narayan Maharana , Manoranjan Mishra

The paper concerns the construction of a compressible liquid-vapor relaxation model which is able to capture the metastable states of the non isothermal van der Waals model as well as saturation states. Starting from the Gibbs formalism, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Hala Ghazi , Francois James , Hélène Mathis

In this article, a finite element model is implemented to analyze hydro-thermal convective flow in a porous medium. The mathematical model encompasses Darcy's law for incompressible fluid behavior, which is coupled with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah , Dambaru Bhatta

We study a one dimensional model for two-phase flows in heterogeneous media, in which the capillary pressure functions can be discontinuous with respect to space. We first give a model, leading to a system of degenerated non-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Clément Cancès