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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

We show short-time well-posedness of a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

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We present an adaptive simulation framework for binary-fluid flows, based on the Abels-Garcke-Gr\"un Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (AGG NSCH) diffuse-interface model. The adaptive-refinement procedure is guided by a two-level hierarchical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 T. H. B. Demont , G. J. van Zwieten , C. Diddens , E. H. van Brummelen

We study the singular limit of a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic reaction-diffusion equation. We use a Finsler metric related to the anisotropic diffusion term and work in relative geometry. We prove a weak comparison principle and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Matthieu Alfaro , Harald Garcke , Danielle Hilhorst , Hiroshi Matano , Reiner Schatzle

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

In this work, we first propose a diffuse interface model for simulating N phase flows with solid liquid phase change. In this model, a phase field approach is adopted to capture multiphase fluid interfaces, and an enthalpy based formulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang , Xi Liu

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 the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids in the presence of a solid phase that undergoes changes in time due to precipitation and dissolution effects. Based on a seminal sharp interface model a phase field approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Christian Rohde , Lars von Wolff

We develop a long-wavelength theory for the linear stability of a flat interface between an active nematic and an isotropic fluid. Starting from a diffuse-interface Cahn--Hilliard--Landau--de Gennes description coupled to Brinkman-screened…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Mykola Tasinkevych , Margarida M. Telo da Gama

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we study a new model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

We consider a two-phase flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids which are separated by a sharp interface in the case of a simple phase transition. In this model the interface is no longer material and its evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

The diffuse-interface model (DIM) is a tool for studying interfacial dynamics. In particular, it is used for modeling contact lines, i.e., curves where a liquid, gas, and solid are in simultaneous contact. As well as all other models of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-17 E. S. Benilov

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model that describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities and a soluble surfactant in a bounded domain of two or…

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In this paper, we study surfaces which evolve by anisotropic mean curvature flow with contact angle boundary condition over a strictly convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish a prior gradient estimate for smooth solutions to this…

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In this work, we propose a fully discrete energy stable scheme for the phase-field moving contact line model with variable densities and viscosities. The mathematical model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation, a Navier-Stokes equation and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Guangpu Zhu , Huangxin Chen , Aifen Li , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao

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

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

In this paper, the sharp interface limit for the compressible non-isentropic Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system is derived by the method of matched asymptotic expansion. We show that the leading order problem satisfies the compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Chen Yazhou , He Qiaolin , Shi Xiaoding , Wang Xiaoping

Phase-field models are a popular choice in computational physics to describe complex dynamics of substances with multiple phases and are widely used in various applications. We present nonlocal non-isothermal phase-field models of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Olena Burkovska

We consider a class of nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a nonlocal kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary condition. This diffuse interface model describes phase…

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