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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…

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This paper presents a robust, adaptive numerical scheme for simulating high density ratio and high shear multiphase flows on locally refined Cartesian grids that adapt to the evolving interfaces and track regions of high vorticity. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Boyce E. Griffith , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

We consider the two-phase dynamics of two incompressible and immiscible fluids. As a mathematical model we rely on the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system that belongs to the class of diffuse-interface models. Solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Jens Keim , Hasel-Cicek Konan , Christian Rohde

We consider two-phase fluid deformable surfaces as model systems for biomembranes. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-like equations with bending forces. We derive this model using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Elena Bachini , Veit Krause , Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt

Fully three-dimensional, time-dependent, direct simulations of the non-ideal Navier-Stokes equations for a two-component fluid, shed light into the mechanism which inhibits droplet breakup in step emulsifiers below a critical threshold of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-18 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Elad Stolovicki , David Weitz , Sauro Succi

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

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving space-time variational discretization method for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system. Uniqueness and stability for the discrete problem is established in the presence of concentration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

We present a fully-coupled, implicit-in-time framework for solving a thermodynamically-consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system that models two-phase flows. In this work, we extend the block iterative method presented in Khanwale et…

Modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions are crucial to the success of aerospace engineering. This work addresses a novel hybrid algorithm that models the close coupling between compressible flows and deformable materials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mingshuo Han , Shiwei Hu , Tianbai Xiao , Yonghao Zhang

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…

This work presents a macroscopic model for the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids within inhomogeneous porous media. At the pore scale, the flow is governed by the full Navier-Stokes equations while the phase interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Chunhua Zhang , Peiyao Liu , Cheng Peng , Lian-Ping Wang , Zhaoli Guo

We present a long-wavelength approximation to the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard equations to describe phase separation in thin films. The equations we derive underscore the coupled behaviour of free-surface variations and phase separation. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We propose first- and second-order time discretization schemes for the coupled Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes model, leveraging the incremental viscosity splitting (IVS) method. The schemes combine the scalar auxiliary variable method and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Baolin Kuang , Hongfei Fu , Xiaoli Li

In this fluid dynamics video, we present a visualization of the primary atomization of a turbulent liquid jet injected into a turbulent gaseous crossflow. It is based on a detailed numerical simulation of the primary atomization region of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sandeep Rana , Marcus Herrmann

We develop the energy budget equation of the coupled Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system. We use the NSCH equations to model the dynamics of liquid droplets in a liquid continuum. Buoyancy effects are accounted for through the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-26 LFR Espath , A Sarmiento , P Vignal , BON Varga , AMA Cortes , L Dalcin , VM Calo

Temporal instabilities of a planar liquid jet are studied using direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with level-set (LS) and volume-of-fluid (VoF) surface tracking methods. $\lambda_2$ contours are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-09 Arash Zandian , William A. Sirignano , Fazle Hussain

We analyze a Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for viscous incompressible two-phase flows where the mechanisms of chemotaxis, active transport and reaction are taken into account. The evolution system couples the Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jingning He , Hao Wu

We investigate a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase viscous flows with surfactant. The resulting system of partial differential equations consists of a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

A well-known diffuse interface model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations nonlinearly coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation. This system describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary-fluids and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Pierluigi Colli , Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

We present the components of a high-order accurate Navier-Stokes solver designed to simulate high-Reynolds-number stratified flows. The proposed numerical model addresses some of the numerical and computational challenges that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 Nidia Reyes-Gil , Greg Thomsen , Kristopher Rowe , Peter Diamessis