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As popular approximations to sharp-interface models, the Cahn-Hilliard type phase-field models are usually used to simulate interface dynamics with volume conservation. However, the convergence rate of the volume enclosed by the interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Zeyu Zhou , Wei Jiang , Tiezheng Qian , Zhen Zhang

We study a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system modeling the evolution of a compressible binary mixture of viscous fluids undergoing phase separation. The novelty of this work is a free energy potential including the physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Danica Basarić , Andrea Giorgini

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

In this research, we introduce and investigate an approximation method that preserves the structural integrity of the non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system. Our approach extends a previously proposed technique [1], which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Aaron Brunk , Dennis Schumann

We consider the problem of finding optimal shapes of fluid domains. The fluid obeys the Navier--Stokes equations. Inside a holdall container we use a phase field approach using diffuse interfaces to describe the domain of free flow. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

We are concerned with the simulation and control of a two phase flow model governed by a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system involving a nonsmooth energy potential. We establish the existence of optimal solutions and present two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Carmen Gräßle , Michael Hintermüller , Michael Hinze , Tobias Keil

We study a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids coupling the Navier--Stokes system with a convective nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation in two dimensions of space. We apply recently proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Sergio Frigeri , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

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

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of two-phase flows or binary mixtures. In recent years, the dynamic boundary conditions for the Cahn-Hilliard equation have been proposed and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Shuting Gu , Ming Xiao , Rui Chen

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

We introduce a collection of benchmark problems in 2D and 3D (geometry description and boundary conditions), including simple cases with known analytic solution, classical experimental setups, and complex geometries with fabricated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Zizhou Huang , Teseo Schneider , Minchen Li , Chenfanfu Jiang , Denis Zorin , Daniele Panozzo

Supersonic shear layers experience instabilities that generate significant adverse effects; in complex configurations, these instabilities have global impacts as they foster compounding complications with other independent flow features. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-19 Melissa Yeung , Datta V. Gaitonde , Yiyang Sun

Varieties of energy-stable numerical methods have been developed for incompressible two-phase flows based on the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) model in the Eulerian framework, while few investigations have been made in the Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Xiaoyu Feng , Zhonghua Qiao , Shuyu Sun , Xiuping Wang

The two-phase free boundary problem for the Navier-Stokes system is considered in a situation where the initial interface is close to a halfplane. By means of $L_p$-maximal regularity of the underlying linear problem we show local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett

We develop a high-fidelity numerical solver for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, with the main aim of highlighting the predictive capabilities of low-diffusive numerics for flows in complex geometries. The space discretization of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-16 Davide Modesti , Sergio Pirozzoli

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

We propose in this paper a new multiphase Cahn-Hilliard model with doubly degenerate mobilities. We prove by a formal asymptotic analysis that it approximates with second order accuracy the multiphase surface diffusion flow with mobility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Elie Bretin , Roland Denis , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

In this paper, we study a diffuse interface model for two-phase immiscible flows coupled by Navier-Stokes equations and mass-conserving Allen-Cahn equations. The contact line (the intersection of the fluid-fluid interface with the solid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yinghua Li , Yuanxiang Yan , Xijun Yin

In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Igor Voulis , Arnold Reusken