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The evolution of two partially miscible, nonhomogeneous, incompressible viscous fluids of non-Newtonian type, can be governed by the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system. In the present work, we prove the global existence of weak solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Fang Li , Duan Xingyu , Guo Zhenhua

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain in two and three space dimensions. In contrast to previous works, we study a new model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

We prove existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain by allowing for a degenerate mobility. The model has been developed by Abels, Garcke and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Helmut Abels , Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model that describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities and a soluble surfactant in a bounded domain of two or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Bohan Ouyang , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

We consider a diffuse interface model for an incompressible isothermal mixture of two viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities in a bounded domain in two or three space dimensions. The model is the nonlocal version of the one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Sergio Frigeri

A well-known diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. In some recent contributions the standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Pavel Krejčí

We introduce a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density. The main novelty of the present contribution consists in the fact that the effects of temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We analyze a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows with chemotaxis effect. The PDE system couples a Navier-Stokes equation for the fluid velocity, a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Jingning He

We prove convergence of suitable subsequences of weak solutions of a diffuse interface model for the two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities with a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

A well-known diffuse interface model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations nonlinearly coupled with a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation. This system describes the evolution of an incompressible isothermal mixture of binary-fluids and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Pierluigi Colli , Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli

We consider a two-phase flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids which are separated by a sharp interface in the case of a simple phase transition. In this model the interface is no longer material and its evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

The motion of two contiguous incompressible and viscous fluids is described within the diffuse interface theory by the so-called Model H. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, which are coupled with the Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Andrea Giorgini , Alain Miranville , Roger Temam

We study a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of two-phase incompressible flows driven by the thermo-induced Marangoni effect. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lingxi Chen , Hao Wu

A diffused interface model describing the evolution of two conterminous incompressible fluids in a porous medium is discussed. The system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins logarithmic potential, coupled via surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

We consider the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids in the presence of a solid phase that undergoes changes in time due to precipitation and dissolution effects. Based on a seminal sharp interface model a phase field approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Christian Rohde , Lars von Wolff

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

We report on simulations of two-phase flows with deforming interfaces at various density contrasts by solving thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. An (essentially) unconditionally energy-stable…