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A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

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We consider the motion of the interface separating two domains of the same fluid that moves with different velocity along the tangential direction of the interface. We assume that the fluids occupying the two domains are of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sijue Wu

The initial-boundary value problem of the vorticity equation has been solved numerically by an iterative method. A variety of initial vorticity distributions is specified. All of them can be described by simple mathematical functions: there…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-23 F. Lam

The viscous fingering instability, which forms when a less-viscous fluid invades a more-viscous one within a confined geometry, is an iconic system for studying pattern formation. For both miscible and immiscible fluid pairs the growth…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Savannah D. Gowen , Thomas E. Videbaek , Sidney R. Nagel

In a companion study \cite{patterson2020computing2D}, we present a numerical method for simulating 2D viscous flow through an open compliant closed channel, drive by pressure gradient. We consider the highly viscous regime, where fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sarah E Patterson , Anita T Layton

Microdrop impact and spreading phenomena are explored as an interface formation process using a recently developed computational framework. The accuracy of the results obtained from this framework for the simulation of high deformation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

Two-fluid interfaces in porous media, an example of driven disordered systems, were studied by a real time three-dimensional imaging technique with pore scale resolution for a less viscous fluid displacing a more viscous one. With…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-23 Prerna Sharma , P. Aswathi , Anit Sane , Shankar Ghosh , S. Bhattacharya

We analyze a diffuse interface model for multi-phase flows of $N$ incompressible, viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities. In the case of a bounded and sufficiently smooth domain existence of weak solutions in two and three space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

A decomposition of the energy and helicity fluxes in a turbulent hydrodynamic flow is proposed. The decomposition is based on the projection of the flow to a helical basis that allows to investigate separately the role of interactions among…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandros Alexakis

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 introduce second-gradient models for incompressible viscous fluids, building on the framework introduced by Fried and Gurtin. We propose a new and simple constitutive relation for the hyperpressure to ensure that the models are both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 C. Balitactac , C. Rodriguez

Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ricardo Costa , Stéphane Clain , Gaspar J. Machado , João M. Nóbrega

A spherical hydrodynamical expansion flow can be described as the gradient of a potential. In that case no vorticity should be produced, but several additional mechanisms can drive its production. Here we analyze the effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-14 Fabio Del Sordo , Axel Brandenburg

In this work, we use a moving Voronoi and sharp interface approach for simulating two-phase flows. At every time step, the mesh is generated anew from Voronoi seeds that behave as material points. The paper is a continuation of our previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Walter Boscheri

We present an accurate Lagrangian method based on vortex particles, level-sets, and immersed boundary methods, for animating the interplay between two fluids and rigid solids. We show that a vortex method is a good choice for simulating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Mathieu Coquerelle , Jérémie Allard , Georges-Henri Cottet , Marie-Paule Cani

We consider a coupled system of partial differential equations describing the interactions between a closed free interface and two viscous incompressible fluids. The fluids are assumed to satisfy the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Sebastien Court

The Muskat problem models the filtration of two incompressible immiscible fluids of different characteristics in porous media. In this paper, we consider both the 2D and 3D setting of two fluids of different constant densities and different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Francisco Gancedo , Eduardo Garcia-Juarez , Neel Patel , Robert M. Strain

Governing equations for two-dimensional inviscid free-surface flows with constant vorticity over arbitrary non-uniform bottom profile are presented in exact and compact form using conformal variables. An efficient and very accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-13 V. P. Ruban

In this paper, we show that the spatio-temporal evolution of incompressible flows in a long circular pipe can be described by vorticity dynamics. The principal techniques to obtain solutions are similar to those used for flows in the whole…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-10 F. Lam

Two cylinders rotating next to each other generate a large hydrodynamic force if the intermediate space is filled with a viscous fluid. Herein, we explore the case where the cylinders are separated by two layers of viscous immiscible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-29 Aditya Jha , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez