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We show that long-wavelength interfacial fluctuations are strongly suppressed in non-equilibrium phase coexistence between bulk hyperuniform systems. Using simulations of three distinct microscopic models, we demonstrate that hyperuniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Raphaël Maire , Leonardo Galliano , Andrea Plati , Ludovic Berthier

We study the sharp interface limit and well-posedness of a phase field model for self-climb of prismatic dislocation loops in periodic settings. The model is set up in a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn framework featured with degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Xiaohua Niu , Xiaodong Yan

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension with scaling a small parameter \epsilon and a non-convex potential W. In the limit \espilon \to 0, under the assumption that the initial data are energetically well-prepared, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-09 Giovanni Bellettini , Lorenzo Bertini , Mauro Mariani , Matteo Novaga

In this paper we consider a multiscale phase-field model for capillarity-driven flows in porous media. The presented model constitutes a reduction of the conventional Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model, valid in situations where…

Phase-field model is a powerful mathematical tool to study the dynamics of interface and morphology changes in fluid mechanics and material sciences. However, numerically solving a phase field model for a real problem is a challenge task…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We study topology optimization governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows using a phase field model. Novel stabilized semi-implicit schemes for the gradient flows of Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard types are proposed for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Jiajie Li , Shengfeng Zhu

In this work, we study a phase-field model for curvature-driven pattern formation in biomembranes. The model is derived as a gradient flow of an energy functional that approximates the two-phase Canham--Helfrich energy. This leads to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Patrik Knopf , Anastasija Pešić , Dennis Trautwein

We present a finite element based variational interface-preserving and conservative phase-field formulation for the modeling of incompressible two-phase flows with surface tension dynamics. The preservation of the hyperbolic tangent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiaoyu Mao , Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev Jaiman

In this paper we propose an efficient second order well balanced finite volume method for modeling complex free surface flows at the aid of a simple diffuse interface method. The employed physical model is a two-phase model derived from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Elena Gaburro , Manuel J. Castro , Michael Dumbser

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

We present a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for simulating fluid transport across semi-permeable membranes, with a particular focus on osmotic pressure effects. The model extends the classical Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ruihan Guo , Jie Shen , Shixin Xu , Xianmin Xu

In this paper, a fractional step lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to model two-phase flows with large density differences by solving Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.In order to maintain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Chunhua Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Yibao Li

Phase field models have been applied in recent years to grain boundaries in single-component systems. The models are based on the minimization of a free energy functional, which is constructed phenomenologically rather than being derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Gunnar Pruessner , A. P. Sutton

A novel numerical strategy is introduced for computing approximations of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard model with degenerate mobilities. This model has recently been introduced as a second-order phase-field approximation for surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Elie Bretin , Luca Calatroni , Simon Masnou

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 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

This work deals with numerical simulation of water freezing and thawing in a complex three-dimensional geometry of a porous medium. The porous structure is represented by a virtual container filled with glass beads. Phase transition…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Pavel Strachota

A new diffuse interface model has been proposed in this study for simulating binary alloy solidification under universal cooling conditions, involving both equilibrium and non-equilibrium solute partitioning. Starting from the Gibbs-Thomson…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Chuanqi Zhu , Yusuke Seguchi , Masayuki Okugawa , Yuichiro Koizumi

A system of partial differential equations for a diffusion interface model is considered for the stationary motion of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous Newtonian fluids in a three-dimensional bounded domain. The governing equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Zhilei Liang , Dehua Wang

In this work, physics-informed neural networks are applied to incompressible two-phase flow problems. We investigate the forward problem, where the governing equations are solved from initial and boundary conditions, as well as the inverse…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-26 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Stefan Adami , Nikolaus A. Adams