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In this paper, we investigate the wellposedness of the non-isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system with the heat-conductivity proportional to a positive power of the temperature. This system describes the flow of a two-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Yazhou Chen , Qiaolin He , Bin Huang , Xiaoding Shi

Liquid droplets sliding along solid surfaces are a frequently observed phenomenon in nature, e.g., raindrops on a leaf, and in everyday situations, e.g., drops of water in a drinking glass. To model this situation, we use a phase field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henning Bonart , Christian Kahle , Jens-Uwe Repke

We consider the chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system with generalized fluid dissipation in $\mathbb{R}^3$: \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} \partial_t n+u\cdot \nabla n=\Delta n- \nabla \cdot (\chi(c)n \nabla c),\\ \partial_t c+u \cdot \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Qingyou He , Ling-Yun Shou , Leyun Wu

A basic issue for Navier-Stokes (NS) fluids is their characterization in terms of the so-called NS phase-space classical dynamical system, which provides a mathematical model for the description of the dynamics of infinitesimal (or…

We investigate a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase viscous flows with surfactant. The resulting system of partial differential equations consists of a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

Phase separation in multicomponent fluids is central to understanding the organization of complex materials and biological structures. The Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations offer a robust framework for modeling such systems,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Nadia Bihari Padhan , Axel Voigt

We investigate a hydrodynamic system of Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard type, which describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with unmatched densities coupled with a soluble chemical species. Derived from Onsager's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

The Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using stochastic fluxes. This paper examines explicit Eulerian discretizations of the full LLNS equations. Several CFD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Sarah A. Williams

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

The Exergetic Port-Hamiltonian Systems modeling language combines a graphical syntax inspired by bond graphs with a port-Hamiltonian semantics akin to the GENERIC formalism. The syntax enables the modular and hierarchical specification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Markus Lohmayer , Sigrid Leyendecker

We consider the 3D Cahn-Hilliard equations coupled to, and driven by, the forced, incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes equations. The combination, known as the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations, is used in statistical mechanics to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 John D. Gibbon , Nairita Pal , Anupam Gupta , Rahul Pandit

In this study, we have derived a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for two-phase flows with thermocapillary effects. This model accommodates variations in physical properties such as density, viscosity, heat capacity, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-09 Yanxiao Sun , Jiang Wu , Maosheng Jiang , Steven M. Wise , Zhenlin Guo

Accurately modeling the dynamics of high-density ratio ($\mathcal{O}(10^5)$) two-phase flows is important for many material science and manufacturing applications. This work considers numerical simulations of molten metal oscillations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Rabeh , Makrand A. Khanwale , John J. Lee , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

We consider the two-phase dynamics of two incompressible and immiscible fluids. As a mathematical model we rely on the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system that belongs to the class of diffuse-interface models. Solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Jens Keim , Hasel-Cicek Konan , Christian Rohde

We present an anisotropic mesh adaptation procedure based on Riemannian metrics for the simulation of two-phase incompressible flows with non-matching densities. The system dynamics are governed by the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes (CHNS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Arthur Bawin , Stéphane Étienne , Cédric Béguin

While various phase-field models have recently appeared for two-phase fluids with different densities, only some are known to be thermodynamically consistent, and practical stable schemes for their numerical simulation are lacking. In this…

Gallavotti proposed an equivalence principle in hydrodynamics, which states that forced-damped fluids can be equally well represented by means of the Navier-Stokes equations and by means of time reversible dynamical systems called GNS. In…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Lamberto Rondoni , Enrico Segre

We consider an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system arising in the modeling of fluid-membrane interaction. The fluid dynamics is governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Andrea Signori , Hao Wu

The Boussinesq approximation is a cornerstone of geophysical fluid dynamics, yet its thermodynamic and energetic underpinnings have remained ambiguous. In standard formulations, the links with the fully compressible Navier--Stokes equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-23 R. Tailleux , T. Dubos , B. J. Hatton

In this paper we present a mathematical model to describe the phenomenon of phase separation, which is modelled as space regions where an order parameter changes smoothly. The model proposed, including thermal and mixing effects, is deduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Alessia Berti , Ivana Bochicchio