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The well-known Cahn-Hilliard equation entails mass conservation if a suitable boundary condition is prescribed. In the case when the equation is also coupled with a dynamic boundary condition, including the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

A main challenge in numerical simulations of moving contact line problems is that the adherence, or no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at the contact line. In this report we perform the first steps in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-23 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

In this paper we consider second-order field theories in a variational setting. From the variational principle the Euler-Lagrange equations follow in an unambiguous way, but it is well known that this is not true for the Cartan form. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Markus Schöberl , Kurt Schlacher

We propose two different Lagrange multiplier methods for contact problems derived from the augmented Lagrangian variational formulation. Both the obstacle problem, where a constraint on the solution is imposed in the bulk domain and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats Larson

A general derivation is proposed for several boundary conditions arisen in the lattice Boltzmann simulations of various physical problems. Pair-wise moment conservations are proposed to enforce the boundary conditions with given macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Jun Li , Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Zhe Feng , Chenglei Wang

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

This paper proposes a new strategy to implement the free-energy based wetting boundary condition within the phase-field lattice Boltzmann method. The greatest advantage of the proposed method is that the implementation of contact line…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Long Ju , Zhaoli Guo , Bicheng Yan , Shuyu Sun

According to the dynamic van der Waals theory, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for non-isothermal compressible two-phase flows with contact line motion. In this model, fluid temperature is treated as a primary variable,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-11 Junkai Wang , Qiaolin He

We propose an efficient numerical method for the simulation of multi-phase flows with moving contact lines in three dimensions. The mathematical model consists of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the two immiscible fluids with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-08 Quan Zhao , Shixin Xu , Weiqing Ren

We solve the linear advection-diffusion equation with a variable speed on a semi-infinite line. The variable speed is determined by an additional condition at the boundary, which models the dynamics of a contact line of a hydrodynamic flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Dmitry Pelinovsky

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 paper, we propose an improved phase field model for interface capturing in simulating two-phase incompressible flows. The model incorporates a second-order diffusion term, which utilizes a nonlinear coefficient to assess the degree…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-20 Jing-Wei Chen , Chun-Yu Zhang , Hao-Ran Liu , Hang Ding

In contact mechanics computation, the constraint conditions on the contact surfaces are typically enforced by the Lagrange multiplier method, resulting in a saddle point system. Given that the saddle point matrix is indefinite, solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Xiaoyu Duan , Hengbin An

A time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation with volume constraint is first proposed by introducing a nonlocal time-dependent Lagrange multiplier. Adaptive linear second-order energy stable schemes are developed for the proposed model by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Bingquan Ji , Hong-lin Liao , Yuezheng Gong , Luming Zhang

This paper is concerned with the sharp interface limit for the Allen-Cahn equation with a nonlinear Robin boundary condition in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. We assume that a diffuse interface already has developed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

Second-order phase field models have emerged as an attractive option for capturing the advection of interfaces in two-phase flows. Prior to these, state-of-the-art models based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which is a fourth-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shahab Mirjalili , Makrand A Khanwale , Ali Mani

Using as a starting point conservation of momentum, a multiphase mechanical energy balance equation is derived that accounts for multiple material phases and interfaces present within a moving control volume. This balance is applied to a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-26 Dalton J. E. Harvie

We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann formulation for linear elastodynamics that is stable for arbitrary combinations of material parameters under a CFL-like condition. The construction of the numerical scheme uses an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Oliver Boolakee , Martin Geier , Laura De Lorenzis

A conservation-consistent boundary condition is proposed for nonlinear models of soluble-surfactant-laden falling films, ensuring exact conservation of total surfactant mass. The formulation resolves an inconsistency in widely used reduced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay , Séverine Millet , Bastien Di Pierro , Asim Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we study the contact line problem in a channel. Precisely, we consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system with eneralized Navier boundary condition and relaxation boundary condition in a channel, which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Shijin Ding , Yinghua Li , Zhilin Lin , Yuanxiang Yan