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The Cahn-Hilliard equation and extensions, notably the Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy and Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes systems, provide widely used frameworks for coupling interfacial thermodynamics with flow. This review surveys the thermodynamic…

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We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

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Direct numerical simulations of a temporally-developing, low-speed, variable-density, turbulent, plane mixing layer are performed. The Navier-Stokes equations in the low-Mach number approximation are solved using a novel algorithm based on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-04 Antonio Almagro , Manuel Garcia-Villalba , Oscar Flores

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

We present a two-phase field model and a hybrid particle-phase field model to simulate dilute colloidal sedimentation and flotation near a liquid-gas interface (or fluid-fluid interface in general). Both models are coupled to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-01 Alexandra J. Hardy , Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Elsen Tjhung

In this paper, we develop a second-order, fully decoupled, and energy-stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model for two phase flow with variable density and viscosity. We propose a new decoupling Constant Scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Jinpeng Zhang , Li Luo , Xiaoping Wang

Using the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation as a model, we illuminate the role of advection in phase-separating binary liquids. The advecting velocity is either prescribed, or is determined by an evolution equation that accounts for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-12 Lennon O Naraigh

We study a thermodynamically consistent phase field model for binary mixtures of micropolar fluids, i.e., fluids exhibiting internal rotations. Furnishing with classical no-slip, no-spin and no-flux boundary conditions, in a smooth and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Kin Shing Chan , Kei Fong Lam

In this work, a ternary phase-field model for two-phase flows in complex geometries is proposed. In this model, one of the three components in the classical ternary Cahn-Hilliard model is considered as the solid phase, and only one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

We study a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system modeling the evolution of a compressible binary mixture of viscous fluids undergoing phase separation. The novelty of this work is a free energy potential including the physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Danica Basarić , Andrea Giorgini

Modeling transition-continuum hypersonic flows poses significant challenges due to thermodynamic nonequilibrium and the associated breakdown of the continuum assumption. Standard continuum models such as the Navier-Stokes equations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Mikolaj Kryger , Jonathan F. MacArt

We develop an entropy stable two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard discontinuous Galerkin (DG) flow solver method. The model poses the Cahn-Hilliard equation as the phase field method, a skew-symmetric form of the momentum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Juan Manzanero , Gonzalo Rubio , David A. Kopriva , Esteban Ferrer , Eusebio Valero

This paper is concerned with the incompressible limit problem for strong solutions of compressible two-phase flow models under periodic boundary conditions, where the Navier-Stokes equations are nonlinearly coupled with either Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yinghua Li , Manrou Xie

Using thermodynamic and variational principles we examine a basic phase field model for a mixture of two incompressible fluids in strongly perforated domains. With the help of the multiple scale method with drift and our recently introduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Markus Schmuck , Marc Pradas , Gregorios A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis

We present an extensive direct numerical simulation of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two-dimensional, binary-fluid mixtures with air-drag-induced friction by using the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-16 Nairita Pal , Prasad Perlekar , Anupam Gupta , Rahul Pandit

We propose a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable density that provides exact conservation of volume and, accordingly, pure advection of the density variable. The spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-14 Lorenzo Botti , Francesco Carlo Massa

In this work, we detail the GPU-porting of an in-house pseudo-spectral solver tailored towards large-scale simulations of interface-resolved simulation of drop- and bubble-laden turbulent flows. The code relies on direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-04 Alessio Roccon

The subject of this work is the instability mechanism of simple shear flows, like Hagen-Poiseuille pipe flow, which is a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics [1,2]. A possible analogy with phenomenological theory of ideal plasticity in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Ananiev

We study a diffuse-interface model for a binary incompressible mixture in a periodically perforated porous medium, described by a time-dependent Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system posed on the pore domain…

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