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We study a diffuse interface model for the flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain. The fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but a partial mixing in a small interfacial region is assumed in…

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Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

The evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immiscible fluids in a bounded domain is governed by Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations (CHNS System). In this work, we study the well-posedness results for the CHNS system with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Manika Bag , Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti

We consider a model of a two phase flow proposed by Anderson, McFadden and Wheeler taking into account possible thermal fluctuations. The mathematical model consists of the compressible Navier-Stokes system coupled with the Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Eduard Feireisl , Madalina Petcu

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

In this paper we describe two fully mass conservative, energy stable, finite difference methods on a staggered grid for the quasi-incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (q-NSCH) system governing a binary incompressible fluid flow with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , Steven Wise , John Lowengrub

We present a hybrid spectral element-Fourier spectral method for solving the coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Cahn-Hilliard equations to simulate wall-bounded two-phase flows in a three-dimensional domain which is homogeneous in at least…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. H. Challa , S. Dong , L. D. Zhu

Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) systems describes flows with two-phases, e.g., a liquid with bubbles. Obtaining constitutive relations for general dissipative processes for such a systems, which are thermodynamically consistent, can be a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Azeddine Zaidni , Philip J Morrison , Saad Benjelloun

We consider a diffuse interface model which describes the motion of an incompressible isothermal mixture of two immiscible fluids. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Sergio Frigeri , Ciprian G. Gal , Maurizio Grasselli

We consider two-phase fluid deformable surfaces as model systems for biomembranes. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard-like equations with bending forces. We derive this model using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Elena Bachini , Veit Krause , Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt

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 construct first- and second-order time discretization schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system based on the multiple scalar auxiliary variables approach (MSAV) approach for gradient systems and (rotational) pressure-correction…

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We construct a divergence-free HDG scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase field model. The scheme is robust in the convection-dominated regime, produce a globally divergence-free velocity approximation, and can be efficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Guosheng Fu

In this work, we design and analyze semi/fully-discrete virtual element approximations for the time-dependent Navier--Stokes-Cahn--Hilliard equations, modeling the dynamics of two-phase incompressible fluid flows with diffuse interfaces. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alberth Silgado , Giuseppe Vacca

The pinch-off dynamics of a liquid thread has been studied through numerical simulations and theoretical analysis. Occurring at small length scales, the pinch-off dynamics admits similarity solutions that can be classified into the Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-31 Fukeng Huang , Weizhu Bao , Tiezheng Qian

In multiphase flow phenomena, bubbles and droplets are advected, deformed, break up into smaller ones, and coalesce with each other. A primary challenge of classical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for such flows is to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-27 Jahrul M Alam

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

We present a two-phase field model and a hybrid particle-phase field model to simulate dilute colloidal sedimentation and flotation near a liquid-gas interface (or fluid-fluid interface in general). Both models are coupled to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-01 Alexandra J. Hardy , Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Elsen Tjhung

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

We study a diffuse-interface model for a binary incompressible mixture in a periodically perforated porous medium, described by a time-dependent Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) system posed on the pore domain…

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