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We rigorously prove the convergence of weak solutions to a model for lipid raft formation in cell membranes which was recently proposed by Garcke et al. to weak (varifold) solutions of the corresponding sharp-interface problem for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Helmut Abels , Johannes Kampmann

In this paper, we investigate a system coupled by nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Allen-Cahn equations describing a diffuse interface for two-phase flow of viscous fluids with different densities in a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yinghua Li , Wenlin Ye

In this work, we develop and analyse a novel Hybrid High-Order discretisation of the Brinkman problem. The method hinges on hybrid discrete velocity unknowns at faces and elements and on discontinuous pressures. Based on the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Lorenzo Botti , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou

In this paper, a phase-field based model under the framework of discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) for incompressible multiphase fluid flows is proposed. Two kinetic models are constructed to solve the conservative Allen-Cahn (A-C)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Zeren Yang , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

This paper deals with an initial and boundary value problem for a system coupling equation and boundary condition both of Cahn-Hilliard type; an additional convective term with a forced velocity field, which could act as a control on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The Cahn-Hilliard equation and extensions, notably the Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy and Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes systems, provide widely used frameworks for coupling interfacial thermodynamics with flow. This review surveys the thermodynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Aaron Brunk , Marco F. P. ten Eikelder , Marvin Fritz , Dennis Höhn , Dennis Trautwein

Over the last decades, many diffuse-interface Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard models with non-matching densities have appeared in the literature. These models claim to describe the same physical phenomena, yet they are distinct from one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-13 M. ten Eikelder , K. van der Zee , I. Akkerman , D. Schillinger

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation that characterizes phase separation phenomena of binary mixtures in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ $(d\in \{2,3\})$ with non-permeable boundary. The equations in the bulk are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

The global-in-time existence of weak solutions to a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard cross-diffusion system with singular potential in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proved. The model consists of two coupled parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Ansgar Jüngel , Yue Li

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

We study two-phase flow for Darcy and Brinkman regimes. To reduce the computational complexity for flow in vertical equilibrium various simplified models have been suggested. Examples are dimensional reduction by vertical integration, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Alaa Armiti-Juber , Christian Rohde

This paper presents a mathematical analysis of the evolution of a mixture of two incompressible, isothermal fluids flowing through a porous medium in a three dimensional bounded domain. The model is governed by a coupled system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Manika Bag , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional diffuse interface model for the phase separation of an incompressible and isothermal binary fluid mixture with matched densities. This model consists of the Navier--Stokes equations, nonlinearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 S. Frigeri , M. Grasselli , J. Sprekels

In this work, the sharp interface limit of the degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation (in two space dimensions) with a polynomial double well free energy and a quadratic mobility is derived via a matched asymptotic analysis involving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Alpha Albert Lee , Andreas Münch , Endre Süli

We study an evolutionary system of Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy type including mass source and transport effects. The system may arise in a number of physical situations related to phase separation phenomena with convection, with the main and most…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Giulio Schimperna

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

The Saffman-Taylor viscous fingering problem is investigated for the displacement of a non-Newtonian fluid by a Newtonian one in a radial Hele-Shaw cell. We execute a mode-coupling approach to the problem and examine the morphology of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Magdalena Constantin , Michael Widom , Jose A. Miranda

A novel numerical scheme including time and spatial discretization is offered for coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes governing equation sys-tem in this paper. Variable densities and viscosities are considered in the nu-merical scheme.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Xiaoyu Feng , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

We propose and analyze a mixed formulation for the Brinkman-Forchheimer equations for unsteady flows. Our approach is based on the introduction of a pseudostress tensor related to the velocity gradient, leading to a mixed formulation where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Sergio Caucao , Ivan Yotov