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We investigate the limiting behavior of the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for binary-fluid flows as the diffuse-interface thickness passes to zero, in the presence of fluid-fluid-solid contact lines. Allowing for motion of such contact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 T. H. B. Demont , S. K. F. Stoter , C. Diddens , E. H. van Brummelen

We analyze a Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for viscous incompressible two-phase flows where the mechanisms of chemotaxis, active transport and reaction are taken into account. The evolution system couples the Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jingning He , Hao Wu

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 prove existence of weak solutions to a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Jonas Haselböck

This paper is devoted to the global well-posedness of two Diffuse Interface systems modeling the motion of an incompressible two-phase fluid mixture in presence of capillarity effects in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Andrea Giorgini , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Wolfgang Dreyer , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Kraus

We derive a class of Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard systems that models two-phase flows with mass transfer coupled to the process of chemotaxis. These thermodynamically consistent models can be seen as the natural Navier--Stokes analogues…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Kei Fong Lam , Hao Wu

In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , John S. Lowengrub

We investigate the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface system that couples the Allen--Cahn equation with the instationary Navier--Stokes system in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \in \{2,3\}$. This model is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sebastian Hensel , Yuning Liu

We consider a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model describing two-phase flows of incompressible fluids in a non-isothermal setting. This model was recently introduced in a previous paper of ours, where we proved existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

Over the past few decades, numerous N-phase incompressible diffuse-interface flow models with non-matching densities have been proposed. Despite aiming to describe the same physics, these models are generally distinct, and an overarching…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-01 M. F. P. ten Eikelder

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

A diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of nonhomogeneous incompressible two-phase viscous flows is investigated in a bounded smooth domain in ${\mathbb R}^3.$ The dynamics of the state variables is described by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Nie Rui , Fang Li , Guo Zhenhua

We study a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows with chemotaxis effects. This model also takes into account some significant mechanisms such as active transport and nonlocal interactions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Jingning He , Hao Wu

This work presents a macroscopic model for the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids within inhomogeneous porous media. At the pore scale, the flow is governed by the full Navier-Stokes equations while the phase interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Chunhua Zhang , Peiyao Liu , Cheng Peng , Lian-Ping Wang , Zhaoli Guo

We study an initial-boundary value problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system with non-constant density proposed by Abels, Garcke and Gr\"{u}n in 2012. This model arises in the diffuse interface theory for binary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Giorgini

This paper deals with the derivation of compressible two-phase flow models. We use a thin domain approximation of a two-layer configuration governed by the Navier-Stokes equations, following the works [H. B. Stewart and B. Wendroff, J.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Nicolas Seguin , Khaled Saleh , Pierrick Le Vourc'H

We study the well-posedness of a coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes-Darcy system which is a diffuse-interface model for essentially immiscible two phase incompressible flows with matched density in a karstic geometry. Existence of finite energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Daozhi Han , Xiaoming Wang , Hao WU

We study a diffuse interface model describing the motion of two viscous fluids driven by the surface tension in a Hele-Shaw cell. The full system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with the Darcy's law. We address the physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Andrea Giorgini

This article is devoted to the derivation and analysis of a system of partial differential equations modeling a diffuse interface flow of two Newtonian incompressible magnetic fluids. The system consists of the incompressible Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Martin Kalousek , Sourav Mitra , Anja Schlömerkemper