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We develop a numerical method for solving a free boundary problem which describes shape relaxation, by surface tension, of a long and thin bubble of an inviscid fluid trapped inside a viscous fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. The method of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arkady Vilenkin , Baruch Meerson

A Lagrangian-type numerical scheme called the "comoving mesh method" or CMM is developed for numerically solving certain classes of moving boundary problems which include, for example, the classical Hele-Shaw flow problem and the well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yosuke Sunayama , Masato Kimura , Julius Fergy Rabago

We present a high-order, sharp-interface method for simulation of two-phase flow of real gases using implicit shock tracking. The method is based on a phase-field formulation of two-phase, compressible, inviscid flow with a trivial mixture…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-10 Charles Naudet , Brian Taylor , Matthew J. Zahr

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux

Recently, meshless methods have become popular in numerically solving partial differential equations and have been employed to solve equations governing fluid flows, heat transfer, and species transport. In the present study, a numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-18 Akash Unnikrishnan , Vinod Narayanan , Surya Pratap Vanka

We introduce a numerical method based on an integral equation formulation for simulating drops in viscous fluids in the plane. It builds upon the method introduced by Kropinski in 2001, but improves on it by adding an interpolatory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Rikard Ojala , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of a variant of the mean curvature flow. We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces with normal speed given by $H^k$, $k \ge 1$, where $H$ denotes the mean curvature. We use a level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Axel Kröner , Eva Kröner , Heiko Kröner

In this paper, we establish the convergence of the Ohta-Kawasaki equation to motion by nonlocal Mullins-Sekerka law on any smooth domain in space dimensions $N\leq 3$. These equations arise in modeling microphase separation in diblock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Nam Q. Le

A numerical scheme of relaxation type is proposed to approximate hyperbolic conservation laws in canal networks. Physical conditions at the junction are given and a novel strategy based on [Briani, Natalini, Ribot, 2025] is introduced to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Tommaso Tenna

The present paper deals with the problem of improving the efficiency of large scale turbulent flow simulations. The high-fidelity methods for modelling turbulent flows become available for a wider range of applications thanks to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Boris Krasnopolsky

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

Consider the motion of a thin layer of electrically conducting fluid, between two closely spaced parallel plates, in a classical Hele-Shaw geometry. Furthermore, let the system be immersed in a uniform external magnetic field (normal to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-24 Kyle McKee

Accurate simulations of flows in stellar interiors are crucial to improving our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Because the typically slow flows are merely tiny perturbations on top of a close balance between gravity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 P. V. F. Edelmann , L. Horst , J. P. Berberich , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , G. Leidi , C. Klingenberg , F. K. Roepke

In this paper we present an approach to approximate numerically the solution of coupled hyperbolic conservation laws. The coupling is achieved through a fixed interface, in which interface conditions are linking the traces of both sides.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Nina Aguillon , Raul Borsche

We analyze the convergence of a perturbed circular interface for the two-phase Mullins-Sekerka evolution in flat two-dimensional space. Our method is based on the gradient flow structure of the evolution and captures two distinct regimes of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Saša Lukić

In the last decades, more or less complex physically-based hydrological models, have been developed to solve the shallow water equations or their approximations using various numerical methods. The MacCormack method was developed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Eric Ngondiep , Alqahtani T. Rubayyi , Jean C. Ntonga

This research has found a novel computational efficient method of modelling flow at low Reynolds number through fracture networks. The numerical analysis was performed by connecting Hele-Shaw cells to investigate the effect of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 Pouria Aghajannezhad , Mathieu Sellier , Sid Becker

A fully (pseudo-)spectral solver for direct numerical simulations of large-scale turbulent channel flows is described. The solver utilizes the Chebyshev base functions suggested by J. Shen [SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 16, 1, 1995], that lead to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Mikael Mortensen

We present an improved method for computing incompressible viscous flow around suspended rigid particles using a fixed and uniform computational grid. The main idea is to incorporate Peskin's regularized delta function approach [Acta…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-24 Markus Uhlmann