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We investigate a hydrodynamic system of Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard type, which describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with unmatched densities coupled with a soluble chemical species. Derived from Onsager's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

The evolution of the interface separating a conduit of light, viscous fluid rising buoyantly through a heavy, more viscous, exterior fluid at small Reynolds numbers is governed by the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion. Previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We investigate the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface system that couples the Allen--Cahn equation with the instationary Navier--Stokes system in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \in \{2,3\}$. This model is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sebastian Hensel , Yuning Liu

A novel numerical scheme including time and spatial discretization is offered for coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes governing equation sys-tem in this paper. Variable densities and viscosities are considered in the nu-merical scheme.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Xiaoyu Feng , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

We study a diffuse-interface model for a binary incompressible mixture in a periodically perforated porous medium, described by a time-dependent Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system posed on the pore domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Amartya Chakrabortty , Haradhan Dutta , Hari Shankar Mahato

We introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Cedric Riethmüller , Lars von Wolff , Dominik Göddeke , Christian Rohde

We propose a new generalized compressible diphasic Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard model that we name G-NSCH. This new G-NSCH model takes into account important properties of diphasic compressible fluids such as possible non-matching densities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Charles Elbar , Alexandre Poulain

We report on two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in immiscible fluids. A diffuse-interface model that combines the Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the volume fraction of one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Raphael Zanella , György Tegze , Romain LeTellier , Hervé Henry

We introduce a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density. The main novelty of the present contribution consists in the fact that the effects of temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We consider a diffuse interface model which describes the motion of an incompressible isothermal mixture of two immiscible fluids. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Sergio Frigeri , Ciprian G. Gal , Maurizio Grasselli

The Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system governs the diffuse-interface dynamics of two incompressible and immiscible fluids. We consider a relaxation approximation of the NSCH system that is composed by a system of first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jan Giesselmann , Jens Keim , Fabio Leotta , Christian Rohde

For an accurate description of nanofluidic systems, it is crucial to account for the transport properties of liquids at surfaces on sub-nanometer scales, where classical hydrodynamics fails due to the finite range of surface-liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Shane R. Carlson , Roland R. Netz

We consider a computational model for complex-fluid-solid interaction based on a diffuse-interface model for the complex fluid and a hyperelastic-material model for the solid. The diffuse-interface complex-fluid model is described by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-09 E. H. van Brummelen , M. Shokrpour-Roudbari , G. J. van Zwieten

Accurately modeling the dynamics of high-density ratio ($\mathcal{O}(10^5)$) two-phase flows is important for many material science and manufacturing applications. This work considers numerical simulations of molten metal oscillations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Rabeh , Makrand A. Khanwale , John J. Lee , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

It was recently established that dogs share the same lapping technique as cats by flicking their tongue against the water surface and then yanking it back, dragging up a column of water. This liquid column appears frequently in daily life…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Chung-Hao Chen , Zong-Rou Jiang , Tzay-Ming Hong

We study the breakup of a liquid thread inside another liquid at different surface tensions. In general, the pinch-off of a liquid thread is governed by the dynamics of fluid flow. However, when the interfacial tension is ultralow (2 to 3…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-29 Jack Hau Yung Lo , Yuan Liu , Sze Yi Mak , Zhuo Xu , Youchuang Chao , Kaye Jiale Li , Ho Cheung Shum , Lei Xu

The prototypical diffuse-interface model that describes multi-component flows is the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard model (NSCH). Over the last decades many NSCH models have appeared that claim to describe the same physical phenomena, yet are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-17 M. ten Eikelder , D. Schillinger

We consider an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system arising in the modeling of fluid-membrane interaction. The fluid dynamics is governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Andrea Signori , Hao Wu

We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem in the Eulerian, phase-field formulation. The problem is described using the Navier--Stokes equations for a viscous, incompressible fluid, coupled with the incompressible hyperelasticity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Francis R. A. Aznaran , Martina Bukač , Boris Muha