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With the aim to characterize the formation and propagation of bulges in cylindrical rubber balloons, we carry out an expansion of the non-linear axisymmetric membrane model assuming slow axial variations. We obtain a diffuse interface model…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Claire Lestringant , Basile Audoly

We revisit the sharp-interface continuum thermodynamics of two-phase multicomponent fluid systems with interfacial mass. Since the published work is not fully consistent, we provide a rigorous derivation of the local balance equations and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-15 Dieter Bothe

We revisit the sharp-interface continuum thermodynamics of two-phase multicomponent fluid systems, accounting for partial mass and partial momentum balances both in the bulk phases and on the interface. This allows to describe the transfer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-21 Dieter Bothe

This paper proposes a diffuse-interface model for simulating gas-liquid-solid multiphase flows involving solid-liquid phase change, solute transport, and the Marangoni effect. In this model, a phase-field method is employed to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jiangxu Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Xi Liu , Changsheng Huang

In this work, we first propose a diffuse interface model for simulating N phase flows with solid liquid phase change. In this model, a phase field approach is adopted to capture multiphase fluid interfaces, and an enthalpy based formulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang , Xi Liu

A method of simulating the drying process of a soft matter solution with an implicit solvent model by moving the liquid-vapor interface is applied to various solution films and droplets. For a solution of a polymer and nanoparticles, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-27 Yanfei Tang , John E. McLaughlan , Gary S. Grest , Shengfeng Cheng

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

We study the mass-conserved reaction-diffusion system known as the wave-pinning model, which serves as a minimal framework for describing cell polarity. In this model, the interplay between reaction kinetics and slow diffusion forms a sharp…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shunsuke Kobayashi , Koya Sakakibara , Taikei Uechi

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…

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a system of nonlinear reaction--diffusion--advection equations in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via microscopic channels distributed within a thin membrane. Both the width of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lucas M. Fix , Gianna Götzmann , Malte A. Peter , Jan-F. Pietschmann

We develop a sharp-interface model for solid-state dewetting of double-bubble thin films using an energy variational approach based on a newly proposed interfacial energy. This model characterizes the dynamic evolution of interfaces in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Meng Li , Nan Wang , Ruofan Zhao , Chunjie Zhou

A combination of reaction-diffusion models with moving-boundary problems yields a system in which the diffusion (spreading and penetration) and reaction (transformation) evolve the system's state and geometry over time. These systems can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mojtaba Barzegari , Liesbet Geris

This study presents a novel pressure-based methodology for the efficient numerical solution of a four-equation two-phase diffuse interface model. The proposed methodology has the potential to simulate low-Mach flows with mass transfer. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-12 Andreas D. Demou , Nicoló Scapin , Marica Pelanti , Luca Brandt

We derive a novel thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions. This model describes the motion of viscous incompressible binary fluids with different densities. In contrast to previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Andrea Giorgini , Patrik Knopf

A dynamical model is proposed to describe the coupled decomposition and profile evolution of a free surface film of a binary mixture. An example is a thin film of a polymer blend on a solid substrate undergoing simultaneous phase separation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-25 Uwe Thiele , Santiago Madruga , Lubor Frastia

The global-in-time existence of bounded weak solutions to the Maxwell-Stefan-Fourier equations in Fick-Onsager form is proved. The model consists of the mass balance equations for the partial mass densities and and the energy balance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Christoph Helmer , Ansgar Jüngel

The behaviour of a solid-liquid-gas system near the three-phase contact line is considered using a diffuse-interface model with no-slip at the solid and where the fluid phase is specified by a continuous density field. Relaxation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-02 David N. Sibley , Andreas Nold , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

The transport of single-phase fluid mixtures in porous media is described by cross-diffusion equations for the mass densities. The equations are obtained in a thermodynamic consistent way from mass balance, Darcy's law, and the van der…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Ansgar Jüngel , Jiří Mikyška , Nicola Zamponi

Stochastic models of diffusion with excluded-volume effects are used to model many biological and physical systems at a discrete level. The average properties of the population may be described by a continuum model based on partial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman

We consider a kinetic model of two species of particles interacting with a reservoir at fixed temperature, described by two coupled Vlasov-Fokker-Plank equations. We prove that in the diffusive limit the evolution is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guido Manzi , Rossana Marra