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A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…
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The majority of available numerical algorithms for interfacial two-phase flows either treat both fluid phases as incompressible (constant density) or treat both phases as compressible (variable density). This presents a limitation for the…
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This work investigates the vector-valued Allen-Cahn equation with potentials of high-dimensional double-wells under Robin boundary conditions. We establish local-in-time convergence of solutions to mean curvature flow with a fixed contact…
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