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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 consider an energy-based boundary condition to impose an equilibrium wetting angle for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase-field model on voxel-set-type computational domains. These domains typically stem from the micro-CT imaging of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-17 Florian Frank , Chen Liu , Alessio Scanziani , Faruk O. Alpak , Beatrice Riviere

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

In this work, we propose a novel phase-field model for the simulation of two-phase flows that is accurate, conservative, bounded, and robust. The proposed model conserves the mass of each of the phases, and results in bounded transport of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Suhas S. Jain

In this paper, we focus on modeling and simulation of two-phase flow with moving contact lines and variable density. A thermodynamically consistent phase-field model with General Navier Boundary Condition is developed based on the concept…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Lingyue Shen , Huaxiong Huang , Ping Lin , Zilong Song , Shixin Xu

The Cahn-Hilliard (C-H) equation, as a classical diffusion-interface method of phase-field, has been extensively employed for simulating two-phase fluid dynamics. However, it suffers from a key challenge in the simulation process,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Fang Xiong , Lei Wang , Xinyue Liu

We study properties of the solutions of a family of second order integro-differential equations, which describe the large scale dynamics of a class of microscopic phase segregation models with particle conserving dynamics. We first…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Giacomin , J. L. Lebowitz

The ``no-slip'' boundary condition, i.e., zero fluid velocity relative to the solid at the fluid-solid interface, has been very successful in describing many macroscopic flows. A problem of principle arises when the no-slip boundary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

We study the numerical algorithm and error analysis for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions. A second-order in time, linear and energy stable scheme is proposed, which is an extension of the first-order stabilized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Xiangjun Meng , Xuelian Bao , Zhengru Zhang

We present a mesoscopic model, based on the Boltzmann Equation, for the interaction between a solid wall and a non-ideal fluid. We present an analytic derivation of the contact angle in terms of the surface tension between the liquid-gas,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia , S. Succi , F. Toschi

In this study, a phase-field lattice Boltzmann model based on the Allen-Cahn equation with a filtered collision operator and high-order corrections in the equilibrium distribution functions is presented. Here we show that in addition to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hiroshi Otomo , Raoyang Zhang , Hudong Chen

We present a novel partitioned iterative formulation for modeling of fluid-structure interaction in two-phase flows. The variational formulation consists of a stable and robust integration of three blocks of differential equations, viz.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev K. Jaiman

Unresolved thin-film dynamics often causes spurious coalescence in diffuse-interface simulations of multiphase flows. We address this issue by introducing a fully local repulsive near-contact flux in a conservative Allen--Cahn phase-field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-19 Andrea Montessori , Maria Rosa Lisboa , Marco Lauricella , Sauro Succi

We present a set of effective outflow/open boundary conditions and an associated algorithm for simulating the dynamics of multiphase flows consisting of $N$ ($N\geqslant 2$) immiscible incompressible fluids in domains involving outflows or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-09 Zhiguo Yang , Suchuan Dong

We consider the sharp interface limit of the Allen-Cahn equation with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary conditions and give a varifold characterization of its limit which is formally a mean curvature flow with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Yoshikazu Giga , Fumihiko Onoue , Keisuke Takasao

Incorporating molecular-scale effects in the description of contact line motion is essential for accurately capturing all sources of energy dissipation in wetting dynamics. This holds particularly true in the cases where contact line…

We consider a distributed Lagrange multiplier formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. This is an unfitted method, which does not require the construction of meshes conforming to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

The implementation of boundary conditions is among the most challenging parts of modeling fluid flow through channels and complex media. Here, we show that the existing methods to deal with liquid-wall interactions using multicomponent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Catarina B. Moura , Margarida M. Telo da Gama , Nuno A. M. Araújo

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a contact line. This is a main challenge in numerical simulations of two-phase flows with moving contact lines. We derive a two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-23 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss