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In this paper, we introduce a model describing the dynamic of vesicle membranes within an incompressible viscous fluid in $3D$ domains. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, with an extra stress tensor depending on the…

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We demonstrate the results of the numerical modelling of a plane two-dimensional viscous incompressible flow in a channel with a back-step. As a mathematical model we take equations for a incompressible flow based on the quasi-hydrodynamic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. G. Elizarova , I. S. Kalachinskaya , Yu. V. Sheretov

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

This work presents a stabilized finite element formulation of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) surface theory for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving manifolds developed in Sauer (2025). The formulation is physically frame-invariant,…

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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Bohan Ouyang , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

We present a technique to perform interface-resolved simulations of complex breakup dynamics in two-phase flows using the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. The method dynamically decreases the interface thickness parameter in relevant…

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

In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional diffuse interface model for the phase separation of an incompressible and isothermal binary fluid mixture with matched densities. This model consists of the Navier--Stokes equations, nonlinearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 S. Frigeri , M. Grasselli , J. Sprekels

In this paper, we introduce an interfacial profile-preserving approach for phase field modeling for simulating incompressible two-phase flows. While the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation effectively captures the topological evolution of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Chenglin Jiang , Huanshu Tan

A mathematical model describing the flow of two-phase fluids in a bounded container $\Omega$ is considered under the assumption that the phase transition process is influenced by inertial effects. The model couples a variant of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Gianluca Favre , Giulio Schimperna

This paper presents a study of solution strategies for the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot equations, a complex mathematical model for understanding flow in deformable porous media with changing solid phases. Solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot system poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Erlend Storvik , Cedric Riethmüller , Jakub Wiktor Both , Florin Adrian Radu

In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , John S. Lowengrub

From extensive molecular dynamics simulations on immiscible two-phase flows, we find the relative slipping between the fluids and the solid wall everywhere to follow the generalized Navier boundary condition, in which the amount of slipping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

We study the well-posedness of a modified degenerate Cahn-Hilliard type model for surface diffusion. With degenerate phase-dependent diffusion mobility and additional stabilizing function, this model is able to give the correct sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Xiaohua Niu , Yang Xiang , Xiaodong Yan

A multispecies diffuse interface model is formulated in a fluctuating hydrodynamics framework for the purpose of simulating surfactant interfaces at the nanoscale. The model generalizes previous work to ternary mixtures, employing a…

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In many interfacial flow systems, variations of surface properties lead to novel and interesting behaviors. In this work a three-dimensional model of flow dynamics for multicomponent vesicles is presented. The surface composition is modeled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Prerna Gera , David Salac

Correctly formulated continuum models for lipid-bilayer membranes present a significant challenge to computational mechanics. In particular, the mid-surface behavior is that of a 2-dimensional fluid, while the membrane resists bending much…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Siming Zhao , Timothy Healey , Qingdu Li

A two-phase model and its application to wavefields numerical simulation are discussed in the context of modeling of compressible fluid flows in elastic porous media. The derivation of the model is based on a theory of thermodynamically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-11 Evgeniy Romenski , Galina Reshetova , Ilya Peshkov , Michael Dumbser

We develop and implement a novel lattice Boltzmann scheme to study multicomponent flows on curved surfaces, coupling the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations with the Cahn-Hilliard equation to track the evolution of the binary fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Victor E. Ambruş , Sergiu Busuioc , Alexander J. Wagner , Fabien Paillusson , Halim Kusumaatmaja

A mechanical model and finite element method for the simultaneous solution of Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes flows on multiple curved surfaces over a bulk domain are proposed. The two-dimensional surfaces are defined implicitly by…

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