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Simulating the flow of two fluid phases in porous media is a challenging task, especially when fractures are included in the simulation. Fractures may have highly heterogeneous properties compared to the surrounding rock matrix,…

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The wetting dynamics of liquid particles, from coated droplets to soft capsules, holds significant technological interest. Motivated by the need to simulate liquid metal droplet with an oxidize surface layer, in this work we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-14 Francesca Pelusi , Fabio Guglietta , Marcello Sega , Othmane Aouane , Jens Harting

The use of continuum phase-field models to describe the motion of well-defined interfaces is discussed for a class of phenomena, that includes order/disorder transitions, spinodal decomposition and Ostwald ripening, dendritic growth, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. R. Elder , Martin Grant , Nikolas Provatas , J. M. Kosterlitz

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

We study the initial-boundary value problem for a class of diffusion equations with nonmonotone diffusion flux functions, including forward-backward parabolic equations and the gradient flows of nonconvex energy functionals, under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Baisheng Yan

We study the motion of phase interfaces in a diffusive lattice equation with bistable nonlinearity and derive a free boundary problem with hysteresis to describe the macroscopic evolution in the parabolic scaling limit. The first part of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Michael Helmers , Michael Herrmann

Physically consistent coupling conditions at the fluid-porous interface with correctly determined effective parameters are necessary for accurate modeling and simulation of various applications. To describe single-fluid-phase flows in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-25 Paula Strohbeck , Elissa Eggenweiler , Iryna Rybak

The propagation of cracks driven by a pressurized fluid emerges in several areas of engineering, including structural, geotechnical, and petroleum engineering. We present a robust numerical framework to simulate fluid-driven fracture…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Bianca Giovanardi , Santiago Serebrinsky , Raul Radovitzky

Theoretical studies on linear shear instabilities often use simple velocity and density profiles (e.g. constant, piecewise) for obtaining good qualitative and quantitative predictions of the initial disturbances. Furthermore, such simple…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Divyanshu Bhardwaj , Anirban Guha

We consider a family of initial boundary value problems governed by a fractional diffusion equation with Caputo derivative in time, where the parameter is the Newton heat transfer coefficient linked to the Robin condition on the boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Isolda Cardoso , Sabrina D. Roscani , Domingo A. Tarzia

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

The present work is devoted to approximation of the statistical moments of the unknown solution of a class of elliptic transmission problems in $\mathbb R^3$ with randomly perturbed interfaces. Within this model, the diffusion coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Alexey Chernov , Duong Pham , Thanh Tran

Numerical simulations of flow and transport in porous media usually rely on hybrid-dimensional models, i.e., the fracture is considered as objects of a lower dimension compared to the embedding matrix. Such models are usually combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola , Marco Favino

In this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting fluid dynamics. It uses a denoising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yannick Gachnang , Vismay Churiwala

The distribution of fracture network is crucial to characterize the behaviors of flow field and solute transport, especially for enhanced geothermal systems, as fractures provide preferential flow paths. However, estimating the parameters…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Guodong Chen , Xin Luo , Jiu Jimmy Jiao , Chuanyin Jiang

We propose a new model to account for the main structural characteristics of rock fracture networks (RFNs). The model is based on a generalization of the random neighborhood graphs to consider fractures embedded into rectangular spaces. We…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Ernesto Estrada , Matthew Sheerin

We show that propagation speeds in invasion processes modeled by reaction-diffusion systems are determined by marginal spectral stability conditions, as predicted by the marginal stability conjecture. This conjecture was recently settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Montie Avery

Dynamic Mode III interfacial fracture in a dissimilar square-cell lattice, composed of two contrasting mass-spring lattice half-planes joined at an interface, is considered. The fracture, driven by a remotely applied load, is assumed to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 A. Piccolroaz , N. Gorbushin , G. S. Mishuris , M. J. Nieves

Many physical systems of interest involve the close interaction of a flow in a domain with complex, time-varying boundaries. Treatment of boundaries of this nature is cumbersome due to the difficulty in explicitly tracking boundaries that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Emma M. Boyd , Eric Sandall , Maycon Meier , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

In traditional phase-field modeling of multiphase materials, a significant challenge arises from the non-local nature of fracture energy regularization, where interfacial toughness is inherently coupled with the properties of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ye-Hang Qin , Ye Feng