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Multiphase, compressible and viscous flows are of crucial importance in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. Despite the large effort paid in the last decades to develop accurate and efficient numerical techniques to address…

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Surface-tension-dominant droplet evaporation is ubiquitous and of importance to many applications. We present an improved Coupled Level Set and Volume of Fluid (i-CLSVoF) framework without explicit interface reconstruction for modelling…

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In this work, we propose a novel transport model for soluble surfactants in two-phase flows. In a two-phase flow, the soluble surfactants can adsorb/desorb from/into the bulk of any of the phases to the interface and can modify the…

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This paper is concerned with a diffuse interface model for the gas-liquid phase transition. The model consists the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with van der Waals equation of state and a modified Allen-Cahn equation. The global…

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We propose a decoupled divergence-free neural networks basis (Decoupled-DFNN) method for solving incompressible flow problems, including the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations. To ensure the divergence free property exactly, the velocity…

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The aim of this article is to justify mathematically, in the two-dimensional periodic setting, a generalization of a two-phase model with pressure dependent viscosity first proposed by A. Lefebvre-Lepot and B. Maury to describe a system in…

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Binary-fluid flows can be modeled using the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which represent the boundary between the fluid constituents by a diffuse interface. The diffuse-interface model allows for complex geometries and topological…

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