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In this paper, we present a novel second order in time mixed finite element scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with matched densities. The scheme combines a standard second order Crank-Nicholson method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Steven M. Wise

This paper is devoted to the numerical study of droplet impact on solid substrates in presence of surfactants. We formulate the problem in an energetically variational framework and introduce an incompressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chenxi Wang , Ming-Chih Lai , Zhen Zhang

In this paper, we present an efficient energy stable scheme to solve a phase field model incorporating contact line condition. Instead of the usually used Cahn-Hilliard type phase equation, we adopt the Allen-Cahn type phase field model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Rui Chen , Xiaofeng Yang , Hui Zhang

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

We construct a divergence-free HDG scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase field model. The scheme is robust in the convection-dominated regime, produce a globally divergence-free velocity approximation, and can be efficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Guosheng Fu

We advance the computation of physical modal expansions for unsteady incompressible flows. Point of departure is a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations around its fixed point in a frequency domain formulation. While the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-24 Marek Morzynski , Wojciech Szeliga , Bernd R. Noack

In this paper we construct new fully decoupled and high-order implicit-explicit (IMEX) schemes for the two-phase incompressible flows based on the new generalized scalar auxiliary variable approach with optimal energy approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Xiaoli Li , Nan Zheng , Jie Shen , Zhengguang Liu

We propose a novel second order in time numerical scheme for Cahn-Hilliard-Navier- Stokes phase field model with matched density. The scheme is based on second order convex-splitting for the Cahn-Hilliard equation and pressure-projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Daozhi Han , Xiaoming Wang

We introduce a class of high order accurate, semi-implicit Runge-Kutta schemes in the general setting of evolution equations that arise as gradient flow for a cost function, possibly with respect to an inner product that depends on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

We investigate multi-physical topology optimization for microfluidic mixers employing the phase-field model. The optimization problem is formulated using a modified Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional. To eliminate fluid blockage in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Zongyuan Liu , Jiajie Li , Shengfeng Zhu

In this work, we design and analyze semi/fully-discrete virtual element approximations for the time-dependent Navier--Stokes-Cahn--Hilliard equations, modeling the dynamics of two-phase incompressible fluid flows with diffuse interfaces. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alberth Silgado , Giuseppe Vacca

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

A multitude of substances exist as mixtures comprising multiple chemical components in the natural world. These substances undergo morphological changes under external influences. the phase field model coupled with fluid flow, the dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Meng Li , Ke Wang , Nan Wang

We study a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids coupling the Navier--Stokes system with a convective nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation in two dimensions of space. We apply recently proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Sergio Frigeri , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

Advancements in computational fluid mechanics have largely relied on Newtonian frameworks, particularly through the direct simulation of Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we propose an alternative computational framework that employs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-10 H. Sababha , A. Elmaradny , H. Taha , M. Daqaq

We propose and analyze a linearly stabilized semi-implicit diffusive Crank--Nicolson scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard gradient flow. In this scheme, the nonlinear bulk force is treated explicitly with two second-order stabilization terms. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We present an energy-stable scheme for numerically approximating the governing equations for incompressible two-phase flows with different densities and dynamic viscosities for the two fluids. The proposed scheme employs a scalar-valued…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Z. Yang , S. Dong

We develop a decoupled, first-order, fully discrete, energy-stable scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. This scheme calculates the Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes equations separately, thus effectively decoupling the entire…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Haijun Gao , Xi Li , Minfu Feng

The Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system utilizes a diffusive phase-field for interface tracking of multi-phase fluid flows. Recently structure preserving methods for CHNS have moved into focus to construct numerical schemes that, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Jimmy Kornelije Gunnarsson , Robert Klöfkorn

We have developed an efficient and unconditionally energy-stable method for simulating droplet formation dynamics. Our approach involves a novel time-marching scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable technique, specifically designed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Jinpeng Zhang , Changjuan Zhang , Xiaoping Wang