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

In this contribution we present the first formulation of a heterogeneous multiscale method for an incompressible immiscible two-phase flow system with degenerate permeabilities. The method is in a general formulation which includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Patrick Henning , Mario Ohlberger , Ben Schweizer

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

In this work, we first propose a diffuse interface model for simulating N phase flows with solid liquid phase change. In this model, a phase field approach is adopted to capture multiphase fluid interfaces, and an enthalpy based formulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang , Xi Liu

A modified HLLC-type contact preserving Riemann solver for incompressible two-phase flows using the artificial compressibility formulation is presented. Here, the density is omitted from the pressure evolution equation. Also, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Sourabh P. Bhat , J. C. Mandal

We develop a method for modeling and simulating a class of two-phase flows consisting of two immiscible incompressible dielectric fluids and their interactions with imposed external electric fields in two and three dimensions. We first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Jielin Yang , Ivan C. Christov , Suchuan Dong

In this work, we propose a novel transport model for soluble surfactants in two-phase flows. In a two-phase flow, the soluble surfactants can adsorb/desorb from/into the bulk of any of the phases to the interface and can modify the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-14 Suhas S. Jain

Two-phase outflows refer to situations where the interface formed between two immiscible incompressible fluids passes through open portions of the domain boundary. We present in this paper several new forms of open boundary conditions for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-31 S. Dong , X. Wang

To describe complex flow systems accurately, it is in many cases important to account for the properties of fluid flows on a microscopic scale. In this work, we focus on the description of liquid-vapor flow with a sharp interface between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

Multiphase flows are commonly found in chemical engineering processes such as distillation columns, bubble columns, fluidized beds and heat exchangers. The physical boundaries of domains in numerical simulations of multiphase flows are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-21 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

A hybrid method is developed to simulate two-phase flows with soluble surfactants. In this method, the interface and bulk surfactant concentration equations of diffuse-interface form, which include source terms to consider surfactant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yan Ba , Haihu Liu , Wenqiang Li , Wenjing Yang

We adapt and extend a formulation for soluble surfactant transport in multiphase flows recently presented by Muradoglu & Tryggvason (JCP 274 (2014) 737-757) to the context of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (Shin et al. IJNMF 60…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Seungwon Shin , Jalel Chergui , Damir Juric , Lyes Kahouadji , Omar K. Matar , Richard V. Craster

In this paper, a methodology for modelling two-phase flows based on a conservative level set method in the framework of finite volume method is presented. The novelty of the interface capturing method used here lies on the advection of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Panagiotis Lyras , Antoine Hubert , Konstantinos G. Lyras

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Suhas S. Jain , Michael C. Adler , Jacob R. West , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin , Sanjiva K. Lele

The paper addresses a two-temperature model for simulating compressible two-phase flow taking into account diffusion processes related to the heat conduction and viscosity of the phases. This model is reduced from the two-phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Chao Zhang , Igor Menshov , Lifeng Wang , Zhijun Shen

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

We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

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

We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

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