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The numerical approximation of solutions to the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations is a crucial but challenging task with relevance in various fields of science and engineering. Recently, methods from deep learning have been…

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

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In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical solver is developed for suspensions of rigid and soft particles and droplets in viscoelastic and elastoviscoplastic (EVP) fluids. The presented algorithm is designed to allow for the first time…

Fluid-structure systems occur in a range of scientific and engineering applications. The immersed boundary(IB) method is a widely recognized and effective modeling paradigm for simulating fluid-structure interaction(FSI) in such systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Brent A. Craven , Boyce E. Griffith

We present in detail a set of algorithms to carry out fluid displacements in a dynamic pore-network model of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. The algorithms are general and applicable to regular and irregular pore networks in two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-31 Santanu Sinha , Magnus Aa. Gjennestad , Morten Vassvik , Alex Hansen

Over the past 30 years, the cell-centred finite volume method has developed to become a viable alternative to the finite element method in the field of computational solid mechanics. The current article presents an open-source toolbox for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 P. Cardiff , A. Karač , P. De Jaeger , H. Jasak , J. Nagy , A. Ivanković , Ž. Tuković

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

Suspension of particles in a fluid solvent are ubiquitous in nature, for example, water mixed with sugar or bacteria self-propelling through mucus. Particles create local flow perturbations that can modify drastically the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 S. Dang , C. Blanch-Mercader , L. Berlyand

Two-fluid interfaces in porous media, an example of driven disordered systems, were studied by a real time three-dimensional imaging technique with pore scale resolution for a less viscous fluid displacing a more viscous one. With…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-23 Prerna Sharma , P. Aswathi , Anit Sane , Shankar Ghosh , S. Bhattacharya

A proven methodology to solve multiphase flows is based on the one-fluid formulation of the governing equations, which treats the phase transition across the interface as a single fluid with varying properties and adds additional source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jordi Poblador-Ibanez , Nicolas Valle , Bendiks Jan Boersma

A well-known issue associated with the use of fully conservative schemes in multicomponent-flow simulations is the generation of spurious pressure oscillations at contact interfaces. These oscillations can rapidly lead to solver divergence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-30 Eric J. Ching , Ryan F. Johnson , Andrew D. Kercher

Vocal fold (VF) motion is a fundamental process in voice production, and is also a challenging problem for direct numerical computation because the VF dynamics depend on nonlinear coupling of air flow with the response of elastic channels…

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In this study, the OpenFOAM platform, based on the finite volume method, is applied to investigate the two-dimensional viscoelastic flow past a circular cylinder. The FENE-P model, which considers the bounded elongation of polymer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-11 Sai Peng , Peng Yu

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

This work presents the face-centred finite volume (FCFV) paradigm for the simulation of compressible flows. The FCFV method defines the unknowns at the face barycentre and uses a hybridisation procedure to eliminate all the degrees of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-07 Jordi Vila-Pérez , Matteo Giacomini , Ruben Sevilla , Antonio Huerta

The pseudopotential model within the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) framework has emerged as a prominent approach in computational fluid dynamics due to its dual strengths in physical intuitiveness and computational tractability. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yizhong Chen , Zhibin Wang

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

Soft lubricated contacts exhibit complex interfacial behaviours governed by the coupled effects of multiscale surface roughness and non-linear fluid-solid interactions. Accurately capturing this interplay across thin-film flows is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-12 Qian Wang , Suhaib Ardah , Tom Reddyhoff , Daniele Dini

Transport of material across liquid interfaces is ubiquitous for living cells and is also a crucial step in drug delivery and in many industrial processes. The fluids that are present on either side of the interfaces will usually have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Chao Feng , John J. Molina , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto

This is the second part to our companion paper [18]. Herein, we generalize to two space dimensions the C-method developed in [20,18] for adding localized, space-time smooth artificial viscosity to nonlinear systems of conservation laws that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Raaghav Ramani , Jon Reisner , Steve Shkoller