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A wide variety of interface capturing methods have been introduced for simulating two-phase flows throughout the years. However, there is a noticeable dearth of literature focusing on objective comparisons between these methods, especially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-11 Shahab Mirjalili , Christopher Blake Ivey , Ali Mani

We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

In this article, we propose a novel conservative diffuse-interface method for the simulation of immiscible compressible two-phase flows. The proposed method discretely conserves the mass of each phase, momentum and total energy of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Suhas S. Jain , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin

We present a strongly-coupled immersed-boundary method for flow-structure interaction problems involving thin deforming bodies. The method is stable for arbitrary choices of solid-to-fluid mass ratios and for large body motions. As with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-05 Andres Goza , Tim Colonius

Surfactants reside at the interface of two-phase flows and significantly influence the flow dynamics. Numerical simulations are essential for a comprehensive understanding of such surfactant-laden flows and require a method that can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Shu Yamashita , Shintaro Matsushita , Tetsuya Suekane

Multiphase flows are characterized by sharp moving interfaces, separating different fluids or phases. In many cases the dynamics of the interface determines the behavior of the flow. In a coarse, or reduced order model, it may therefore be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-12 Xianyang Chen , Jiacai Lu , Gretar Tryggvason

A thermodynamic approach to rapid phase transformations within a diffuse interface in a binary system is developed. Assuming an extended set of independent thermodynamic variables formed by the union of the classic set of slow variables and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Galenko , David Jou

We consider the interaction between a free flowing fluid and a porous medium flow, where the free flowing fluid is described using the time dependent Stokes equations, and the porous medium flow is described using Darcy's law in the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Martina Bukač , Boris Muha , Abner J. Salgado

In the above paper the authors treat the boundary layer flow along a stationary, vertical, permeable, flat plate within a vertical free stream. Fluid is sucked or injected through the vertical plate. The fluid species concentration at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-30 Asterios Pantokratoras

In this work, we first propose a diffuse-interface model for the freezing processes of three-phase flows in complex geometries, and the core of the model to intergratge the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flows, a modified phase-field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang

The seven-equation model is a compressible multiphase formulation that allows for phasic velocity and pressure disequilibrium. These equations are solved using a diffused interface method that models resolved multiphase flows. Novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Achyut Panchal , Spencer H. Bryngelson , Suresh Menon

The thin interface limit aims at minimizing the effects arising from a numerical interface thickness, inherent in diffuse interface models of solidification and microstructure evolution such as the phase field model. While the original…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-18 Amol Subhedar , Peter K. Galenko , Fathollah Varnik

This paper proposes a diffuse-interface model for simulating gas-liquid-solid multiphase flows involving solid-liquid phase change, solute transport, and the Marangoni effect. In this model, a phase-field method is employed to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jiangxu Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Xi Liu , Changsheng Huang

This study presents a novel pressure-based methodology for the efficient numerical solution of a four-equation two-phase diffuse interface model. The proposed methodology has the potential to simulate low-Mach flows with mass transfer. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-12 Andreas D. Demou , Nicoló Scapin , Marica Pelanti , Luca Brandt

We present an hybrid VOF/embedded boundary method allowing to model two-phase flows in presence of solids with arbitrary shapes. The method relies on the coupling of existing methods: a geometric Volume of fluid (VOF) method to tackle the…

An existing phase-field model of two immiscible fluids with a single soluble surfactant present is discussed in detail. We analyze the well-posedness of the model and provide strong evidence that it is mathematically ill-posed for a large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Stefan Engblom , Minh Do-Quang , Gustav Amberg , Anna-Karin Tornberg

A solid-liquid-gas moving contact line is considered through a diffuse-interface model with the classical boundary condition of no-slip at the solid surface. Examination of the asymptotic behaviour as the contact line is approached shows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-07 David N. Sibley , Andreas Nold , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

A new diffuse interface model has been proposed in this study for simulating binary alloy solidification under universal cooling conditions, involving both equilibrium and non-equilibrium solute partitioning. Starting from the Gibbs-Thomson…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Chuanqi Zhu , Yusuke Seguchi , Masayuki Okugawa , Yuichiro Koizumi

The dynamics of compressible liquid-vapor flow depends sensitively on the microscale behavior at the phase boundary. We consider a sharp-interface approach, and propose a multiscale model to describe liquid-vapor flow accurately, without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

Central finite difference schemes have long been avoided in the context of two-phase flows for the advection of the phase indicator function due to numerical overshoots and undershoots associated with their dispersion errors. We will show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-23 Shahab Mirjalili , Christopher B. Ivey , Ali Mani