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The 2D Euler system, which governs inviscid incompressible fluid flow, can admit infinitely many steady solutions in a given domain with slip boundary conditions. To select physical classical solutions, we investigate the vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Changfeng Gui , Chunjing Xie , Huan Xu

We analyze the evolution of thin liquid droplets in the lubrication approximation with different slip conditions at the liquid-solid interface. Motivated by the classical no-slip paradox which states that the Navier-Stokes equations with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Hans Knuepfer , Juan Velazquez

We are concerned with the simulation and control of a two phase flow model governed by a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system involving a nonsmooth energy potential. We establish the existence of optimal solutions and present two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Carmen Gräßle , Michael Hintermüller , Michael Hinze , Tobias Keil

Accurately modeling the dynamics of high-density ratio ($\mathcal{O}(10^5)$) two-phase flows is important for many material science and manufacturing applications. This work considers numerical simulations of molten metal oscillations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Rabeh , Makrand A. Khanwale , John J. Lee , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

We develop a combined field formulation for the fluid structure (FS) interaction problem. The unknowns are (u;p;v), being the fluid velocity, fluid pressure and solid velocity. This combined field formulation uses Arbitrary Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Jie Liu

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 analyze from a far field the evolution of an interface that separates ideal incompressible fluids of different densities and has an interfacial mass flux. We develop and apply the general matrix method to rigorously solve the boundary…

We consider the dynamics of two-phase fluids, in particular the moving contact line, on a solid substrate. The dynamics are governed by the sharp-interface model consisting of the incompressible Navier-Stokes\slash Stokes equations with the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Quan Zhao , Weiqing Ren

For more than 150 years the Navier-Stokes equations for thermodynamically quasi-equilibrium flows have been the cornerstone of modern computational fluid dynamics that underpins new fluid technologies. However, the applicable regime of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-11 Jianping Meng , Nishanth Dongari , Jason M. Reese , Yonghao Zhang

In this paper, we propose a Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hillard (PNP-NS-CH)model for an electrically charged droplet suspended in a viscous fluid subjected to an external electric field. Our model incorporates spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-18 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Zilong Song , Shixin Xu

We propose a method to stabilise a solution to equations describing the interface of thin liquid films falling under gravity with a finite number of actuators and restricted observations. As for many complex systems, full observation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Oscar A. Holroyd , Radu Cimpeanu , Susana N. Gomes

A phase-field model for three-phase flows is established by combining the Navier-Stokes (NS) and the energy equations, with the Allen-Cahn (AC) and Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equations and is demonstrated analytically to satisfy the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , Wenqiang Zhang , Xiaorong Wang , Shuguang Li , Xuerui Mao

We study two-dimensional (2D) binary-fluid turbulence by carrying out an extensive direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the forced, statistically steady turbulence in the coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes equations. In the absence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-06 Prasad Perlekar , Nairita Pal , Rahul Pandit

We consider phase-field models with and without lateral flow for the numerical simulation of lateral phase separation and coarsening in lipid membranes. For the numerical solution of these models, we apply an unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Maxim Olshanskii , Yerbol Palzhanov , Annalisa Quaini

The Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system models electrodiffusion of ions in a fluid. We prove global existence of solutions in bounded domains in three dimensions with either blocking (no-flux) or uniform selective (special Dirichlet)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Peter Constantin , Mihaela Ignatova , Fizay-Noah Lee

The stationary Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard equations are considered, governing the motion of a compressible, two-phase fluid mixture with a diffuse interface. The free energy density in this paper has a singular logarithmic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zhilei Liang , Sen Liu , Jiangyu Shuai , Dehua Wang

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

In this paper, we study the global Cauchy problem for a two-phase fluid model consisting of the pressureless Euler equations and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations where the coupling of two equations is through the drag force. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung

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

The description of a stellar system as a continuous fluid represents a convenient first approximation to stellar dynamics, and its derivation from the kinetic theory is standard. The challenge lies in providing adequate closure…

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