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A phase-field approach to the dynamics of liquid-solid interfaces that evolve due to precipitation and/or dissolution is presented. For the purpose of illustration and comparison with other methods, phase field simulations were carried out…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin

In this article, we propose a novel conservative diffuse-interface method for the simulation of immiscible compressible two-phase flows. The proposed method discretely conserves the mass of each phase, momentum and total energy of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Suhas S. Jain , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin

In this work, we first propose a diffuse-interface model for the freezing processes of three-phase flows in complex geometries, and the core of the model to intergratge the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flows, a modified phase-field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang

In this study, we have derived a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for two-phase flows with thermocapillary effects. This model accommodates variations in physical properties such as density, viscosity, heat capacity, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-09 Yanxiao Sun , Jiang Wu , Maosheng Jiang , Steven M. Wise , Zhenlin Guo

In this work, a ternary phase-field model for two-phase flows in complex geometries is proposed. In this model, one of the three components in the classical ternary Cahn-Hilliard model is considered as the solid phase, and only one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

In this work, we consider a general consistent and conservative phase-field model for the incompressible two-phase flows. In this model, not only the Cahn-Hilliard or Allen-Cahn equation can be adopted, but also the mass and the momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-14 Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

Directional solidification of water-based solutions has emerged as a versatile technique for templating hierarchical porous materials. However, the underlying mechanisms of pattern formation remain incompletely understood. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Kaihua Ji , Alain Karma

In this paper, we consider a diffuse-interface gas-liquid two-phase flow model with inhomogeneous temperatures, in which we employ the Peng-Robinson equation of state and the temperature-dependent influence parameter instead of the van der…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

A phase-field model for three-phase flows is established by combining the Navier-Stokes (NS) and the energy equations, with the Allen-Cahn (AC) and Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equations and is demonstrated analytically to satisfy the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , Wenqiang Zhang , Xiaorong Wang , Shuguang Li , Xuerui Mao

We describe in detail a recently proposed lattice-Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components. In particular, the focus is on the modeling of one-component fluid systems which obey non-ideal gas equations of…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiaowen Shan , Hudong Chen

We present a finite element based variational interface-preserving and conservative phase-field formulation for the modeling of incompressible two-phase flows with surface tension dynamics. The preservation of the hyperbolic tangent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiaoyu Mao , Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev Jaiman

A streamwise-constant model is presented to investigate the basic mechanisms responsible for the change in mean flow occuring during pipe flow transition. Using a single forced momentum balance equation, we show that the shape of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jean-Loup Bourguignon , Beverley J. McKeon

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Huangxin Chen , Yuxiang Chen , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

This paper presents a model for the simulation of liquid-gas-solid flows by means of the lattice Boltzmann method. The approach is built upon previous works for the simulation of liquid-solid particle suspensions on the one hand, and on a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Simon Bogner , Ulrich Rüde

A new lattice Boltzmann method for simulating multiphase flows is developed theoretically. The method is adjusted such that its continuum limit is the Navier-Stokes equation, with a driving force derived from the Cahn-Hilliard free energy.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-25 Jasna Zelko , Burkhard Duenweg

A general formulation is presented to derive the equation of motion and to demonstrate thermodynamic consistency for several classes of phase field models at once. It applies to models with a conserved phase field, describing either uniform…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-06 Mowei Cheng , Stefaan Cottenier , Heike Emmerich

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

A phase-field method for unstructured grids that is accurate, conservative, and robust is proposed in this work. The proposed method also results in bounded transport of volume fraction, and the interface thickness adapts automatically to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-18 Hanul Hwang , Suhas S. Jain

We present a new phase-field model for binary fluids exhibiting typical signatures of self-glassiness, such as long-time relaxation, ageing and long-term dynamical arrest. The present model allows the cost of building an interface to become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Benzi , M. Sbragaglia , M. Bernaschi , S. Succi

In this work, we propose and test the validity of a modified Phase Field Method (PFM), which was specifically developed for large scale simulations of turbulent flows with large and deformable surfactant-laden droplets. The time evolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Giovanni Soligo , Alessio Roccon , Alfredo Soldati