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We propose a framework for describing the dynamics associated with the adsorption of small molecules to liquid-vapor interfaces, using an intermediate resolution between traditional continuum theories that are bereft of molecular detail and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Kritanjan Polley , Kevin R. Wilson , David T. Limmer

The majority of available numerical algorithms for interfacial two-phase flows either treat both fluid phases as incompressible (constant density) or treat both phases as compressible (variable density). This presents a limitation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Fabian Denner , Berend van Wachem

This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

Vertical equilibrium models have proven to be well suited for simulating fluid flow in subsurface porous media such as saline aquifers with caprocks. However, in most cases the dimensionally reduced model lacks the accuracy to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-29 Ivan Buntic , Martin Schneider , Bernd Flemisch , Rainer Helmig

Our work is motivated by the analysis of ash plume dynamics, arising in the study of volcanic eruptions. Such phenomena are characterized by large Reynolds number (exceeding $10^7$) and a large number of polydispersed particles~[1]. Thus,…

A multi-scale framework was recently proposed for more realistic molecular dynamics simulations in continuum solvent models by coupling a molecular mechanics treatment of solute with a fluid mechanics treatment of solvent, where we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Li Xiao , Ray Luo

Thanks to an expansion with respect to densities of energy, mass and entropy, we discuss the concept of thermocapillary fluid for inhomogeneous fluids. The non-convex state law valid for homogeneous fluids is modified by adding terms taking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Henri Gouin , Pierre Seppecher

We reconcile two scaling laws that have been proposed in the literature for the slip length associated with a moving contact line in diffuse interface models, by demonstrating each to apply in a different regime of the ratio of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Halim Kusumaatmaja , Ewan J. Hemingway , Suzanne M. Fielding

This paper presents a method for modelling interfacial mass transfer in Interface Capturing simulations of two-phase flow with phase change. The model enables mechanistic prediction of the local rate of phase change at the vapour-liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 G. Giustini , R. I. Issa , M. J. Bluck

In this paper, we present the results of a numerical study of air-water turbulent bubbly flow in a periodic vertical square duct. The study is conducted using a novel numerical technique which leverages Volume of Fluid method for interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-27 Purushotam Kumar , Surya Pratap Vanka

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

In this contribution, we derive a gas-liquid two-scale multi-fluid model with capillarity effects to enable a novelinterface regularization approach for multi-fluid models. As this unified modelling is capable of switching from theinterface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Arthur Loison , Samuel Kokh , Teddy Pichard , Marc Massot

We investigate the liquid-vapor interface of the restricted primitive model (RPM) for an ionic fluid using a density-functional approximation based on correlation functions of the homogeneous fluid as obtained from the mean-spherical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Groh , R. Evans , S. Dietrich

We consider a kinetic model of two species of particles interacting with a reservoir at fixed temperature, described by two coupled Vlasov-Fokker-Plank equations. We prove that in the diffusive limit the evolution is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guido Manzi , Rossana Marra

We study both diffuse and sharp liquid-vapor interfaces. The equilibrium equation of fluids is derived by using the principle of virtual work in a domain including the interfaces. For diffuse interfaces, the surface tension coefficient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sergey L. Gavrilyuk , Henri Gouin

Interfacial flows close to a moving contact line are inherently multi-scale. The shape of the interface and the flow at meso- and macroscopic scales inherit an apparent interface slope and a regularization length, both called after Voinov,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Janecek , B. Andreotti , D. Prazak , T. Barta , V. S. Nikolayev

We investigate interfacial fluid dynamics and heat transfer at nanoscales using an improved diffuse interface approach for liquid-vapor interfaces in non-equilibrium. Conventional Navier-Stokes-Korteweg (NSK) formulations often fail to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Rahul Bhattacharjee , Henning Struchtrup , Anirudh Singh Rana

In this work, a thermodynamically consistent and conservative diffuse-interface model for gas-liquid-solid multiphase flows is proposed. In this model, a novel free energy for the gas-liquid-solid multiphase flows is established according…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Chengjie Zhan , Xi Liu , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

We map molecular dynamics simulations of fluid-fluid interfaces onto mesoscale continuum theories for partially miscible fluids. Unlike most previous work, we examine not only the interface order parameter and density profiles, but also the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Colin Denniston , Mark O. Robbins

We discuss the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two partly miscible viscous Newtonian fluids of different densities, when a certain parameter \epsilon>0 related to the interface thickness tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Helmut Abels , Daniel Lengeler