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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

In this paper we investigate the compressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations (the so-called NSCH model) derived by Lowengrub and Truskinowsky. This model describes the flow of a binary compressible mixture; the fluids are supposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Matthias Kotschote , Rico Zacher

We present a sharp collocated projection method for solving the immiscible, two-phase Navier-Stokes equations in two- and three-dimensions. Our method is built using non-graded adaptive quadtree and octree grids, where all of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Adam L. Binswanger , Matthew Blomquist , Scott R. West , Shilpa Khatri , Maxime Theillard

We propose and analyze unfitted finite element approximations for the two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes flow in an axisymmetric setting. The discretized schemes are based on an Eulerian weak formulation for the Navier--Stokes equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

We consider a model for the evolution of a mixture of two incompressible and partially immiscible Newtonian fluids in two dimensional bounded domain. More precisely, we address the well-known model H consisting of the Navier-Stokes equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Stefano Bosia , Stefania Gatti

Although effective non-reciprocal interactions have been investigated in a variety of fields, their consequences have not been explored in hydrodynamical turbulence. We initiate such an exploration by introducing non-reciprocal binary-fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-26 Biswajit Maji , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Axel Voigt , Rahul Pandit

We propose to model physical effects at the sharp density interface between atmosphere and ocean with the help of diffuse interface approaches for multiphase flows with variable densities. We use the variable-density model proposed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierluigi Colli , Patrik Knopf , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

The Cahn-Hilliard (C-H) equation, as a classical diffusion-interface method of phase-field, has been extensively employed for simulating two-phase fluid dynamics. However, it suffers from a key challenge in the simulation process,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Fang Xiong , Lei Wang , Xinyue Liu

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

Multicomponent vesicles suspended in viscoelastic fluids are crucial for understanding a variety of physiological processes. In this work, we develop a continuum surface force (CSF) phase-field model to investigate the hydrodynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Zuowei Wen , Navid Valizadeh , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

We propose first- and second-order time discretization schemes for the coupled Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes model, leveraging the incremental viscosity splitting (IVS) method. The schemes combine the scalar auxiliary variable method and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Baolin Kuang , Hongfei Fu , Xiaoli Li

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

In this study, we have derived a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for two-phase flows with thermocapillary effects. This model accommodates variations in physical properties such as density, viscosity, heat capacity, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-09 Yanxiao Sun , Jiang Wu , Maosheng Jiang , Steven M. Wise , Zhenlin Guo

The paper considers a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model of a two-phase flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The model allows for a non-linear dependence of fluid density on the phase-field order parameter. Driven by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Yerbol Palzhanov , Alexander Zhiliakov , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

In this paper, we present a new computational framework to approximate a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model with variable density and degenerate mobility that preserves the mass of the mixture, the pointwise bounds of the density and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Daniel Acosta-Soba , Francisco Guillén-González , J. Rafael Rodríguez-Galván , Jin Wang

Recently, Garcke et al.[Garcke, Hinze, Kahle, A stable and linear time discretization for a thermodynamically consistent model for two-phase incompressible flow, Applied Numerical Mathematics 99, pp. 151-171, 2016] developed a consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Jessica Bosch , Christian Kahle , Martin Stoll

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

A mathematical model describing the flow of two-phase fluids in a bounded container $\Omega$ is considered under the assumption that the phase transition process is influenced by inertial effects. The model couples a variant of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Gianluca Favre , Giulio Schimperna