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Porous media containing cracks, fractures, or internal discontinuities arise throughout subsurface geomechanics, biomechanics, and materials science. Numerical simulation of the coupled hydromechanical response is inherently challenging…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-20 David Michael Riley , Guglielmo Scovazzi , Ioannis Stefanou

It is demonstrated that the description of surface-diffusion controlled dynamics via the phase-field method is less trivial than it appears at first sight. A seemingly straightforward approach previously used in the literature is shown to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Kassner

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack propagation compared with numerical methods based on discrete crack…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shuwei Zhou , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

A continuum model of crystalline solid equilibrium is presented in which the underlying periodic lattice structure is taken explicitly into account. This model also allows for both point and line defects in the bulk of the lattice and at…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Cermelli , Shaun Sellers

By analytically solving some simple models of phase-ordering kinetics, we suggest a mechanism for the onset of non-equilibrium behaviour in colloid-polymer mixtures. These mixtures can function as models of atomic systems; their physics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 R. M. L. Evans , W. C. K. Poon

In this work, we extend a phase-field approach for pressurized fractures to non-isothermal settings. Specifically, the pressure and the temperature are given quantities and the emphasis is on the correct modeling of the interface laws…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Nima Noii , Thomas Wick

In this paper we present a balanced phase field model for active surfaces. This work is devoted to the generalization of the Balanced Phase Field Model for Active Contours devised to eliminate the often undesirable curvature-dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Jozsef Molnar , Peter Horvath

In hydrodynamic problems involving wave impact on structures, air compressibility is crucial for accurate pressure prediction when an air bubble is entrapped. In this work, the consistent $\delta^{+}$-SPH model, originally developed for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 Xiao-Ting Huang , Peng-Nan Sun , Hong-Guan Lyu , Andrea Colagrossi , A-Man Zhang

Gravitational and electrostatic interactions are fundamental examples of systems with long-range interactions. Equilibrium properties of simple models with long-range interactions are well understood and exhibit exotic behaviors : negative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-05 Pierre de Buyl

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

We analyse the influence of pre-stress on the propagation of interfacial waves along the boundary of an incompressible hyperelastic half-space that is in contact with a viscous fluid extending to infinity in the adjoining half-space. One…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-11-29 Mélanie Otténio , Michel Destrade , Raymond W. Ogden

Voids develop in crystalline materials under energetic particle irradiation, as in nuclear reactors. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of void nucleation and growth is of utmost importance as it leads to dimensional instability of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-24 Sreekar Rayaprolu , Kyle Starkey , Anter El-Azab

The overarching goal of this work is to develop an accurate, robust, and stable methodology for finite deformation modeling using strong-form peridynamics (PD) and the correspondence modeling framework. We adopt recently developed methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Masoud Behzadinasab , John T. Foster , Yuri Bazilevs

A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method, including both the model and scheme, is developed for multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible and incompressible fluid phases. The consistency of mass conservation and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

Boundary-layer instability and transition control have drawn extensive attention from the hypersonic community. The acoustic metasurface has become a promising passive control method. Currently, the effects of the acoustic metasurface on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yifeng Chen , Peixu Guo , Chihyung Wen

Modeling dislocations is an inherently multiscale problem as one needs to simultaneously describe the high stress fields near the dislocation cores, which depend on atomistic length scales, and a surface boundary value problem which depends…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-12 Jonas Ritter , Michael Zaiser

Frictional sliding contact in hydrodynamic environments can be found in a range of engineering applications. Accurate modeling requires an integrated numerical framework capable of resolving large relative motions, multiphase interactions,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Biswajeet Rath , Rajeev K. Jaiman

Existing smart composite piezoelectric beam models in the literature mostly ignore the electro-magnetic interactions and adopt the linear elasticity theory. However, these interactions substantially change the controllability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Ahmet Ozkan Ozer

The classical phase-field modeling approaches for multiphase problems represent each phase using a regularized characteristic function, which necessarily introduces a simplex constraint for the phase-field variables. Additionally, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Lun Zhang , Chenxi Wang , Nan Lu , Zhen Zhang

In this paper we report on 2D numerical simulations concerning linear and nonlinear evolution of surface-tension-driven instability in two-fluid systems heated from below using classical and phase-field models. In the phase-field formalism,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Rodica Borcia , Domnic Merkt , Michael Bestehorn