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In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

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This work investigates variational frameworks for modeling stochastic dynamics in incompressible fluids, focusing on large-scale fluid behavior alongside small-scale stochastic processes. The authors aim to develop a coupled system of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Arnaud Debussche , Etienne Mémin

Multi-phase phenomena remain at the heart of many challenging fluid dynamics problems. Molecular fluxes at the interface determine the fate of neighboring phases, yet their closure far from the continuum needs to be modeled. Along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-11 Mohsen Sadr , Marcel Pfeiffer , M. Hossein Gorji

Fundamental properties of the multicomponent diffuse-interface model (DIM), such as the maximum entropy principle and conservation laws, are used to explore the basic interfacial dynamics and phase transitions in fluids. Flat interfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-02 E. S. Benilov

For the water-air system, the bulk density ratio is as high as about 1000; no model can fully tackle such a high density ratio system. In the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations, the density $\rho$ within the water-air interface is assumed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Fei Wang

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

We study an interface-capturing two-phase fluid model in which the interfacial tension is modelled as a volumetric stress. Since these stresses are obtainable from a Van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard free energy, the model is, to a certain…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 B. T. Nadiga , S. Zaleski

In this paper, we are interested in the dynamics of charged particles interacting with the incompressible viscous flow. More precisely, we consider the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck equation coupled with the incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung

In two-dimensional decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence, kinetic energy and enstrophy are respectively transferred to larger and smaller scales. In such spatiotemporally complex dynamics, it is challenging to identify the important…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-08 Aditya G. Nair , James Hanna , Matteo Aureli

Non-stationary Euler flows of gases are studied. The system of differential equations describing such flows can be represented by means of 2-forms on zero-jet space and we get some exact solutions by means of such a representation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Valentin Lychagin , Mikhail Roop

A diffuse interface model for surfactants in multi-phase flow with three or more fluids is derived. A system of Cahn-Hilliard equations is coupled with a Navier-Stokes system and an advection-diffusion equation for the surfactant ensuring…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Kei Fong Lam , Bjorn Stinner

Solute mixing plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of chemical and biological processes across natural and engineered porous media. However, current understanding of mixing dynamics remains largely constrained to steady flows in fully…

To describe complex flow systems accurately, it is in many cases important to account for the properties of fluid flows on a microscopic scale. In this work, we focus on the description of liquid-vapor flow with a sharp interface between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

The development of microfluidic devices has recently revived the interest in "old" problems associated with transport at, or across, interfaces. As the characteristic sizes are decreased, the use of pressure gradients to transport fluids…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Lydéric Bocquet , J. -L. Barrat

In this paper, we first construct a model for free surface flows that takes into account the air entrainment by a system of four partial differential equations. We derive it by taking averaged values of gas and fluid velocities on the cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-04 Christian Bourdarias , Mehmet Ersoy , Stéphane Gerbi

We present a new multiphase-field theory for describing pattern formation in multi-domain and/or multi-component systems. The construction of the free energy functional and the dynamic equations is based on criteria that ensure mathematical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-09 Gyula I. Toth , Tamas Pusztai , Laszlo Granasy

In the present work, we propose a consistent and conservative model for multiphase and multicomponent incompressible flows, where there can be arbitrary numbers of phases and components. Each phase has a background fluid called the pure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

A wide range of techniques exist for extracting the dominant flow dynamics and features about steady, or periodic base flows. However, there have been limited efforts in extracting the dominant dynamics about unsteady, aperiodic base flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-05 Alec J. Linot , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Yonghong Zhong , Kunihiko Taira

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

We study the mixing in the presence of convective flow in a porous medium. Convection is characterized by the formation of vortices and stagnation points, where the fluid interface is stretched and compressed enhancing mixing. We analyze…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 Juan J. Hidalgo , Marco Dentz