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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Michal Bathory , Miroslav Bulíček , Josef Málek

We show well-posedness of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with different densities locally in time. The model leads to an inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard system with a solenoidal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Helmut Abels , Josef Weber

We report on simulations of two-phase flows with deforming interfaces at various density contrasts by solving thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. An (essentially) unconditionally energy-stable…

Biomembranes and vesicles consisting of multiple phases can attain a multitude of shapes, undergoing complex shape transitions. We study a Cahn--Hilliard model on an evolving hypersurface coupled to Navier--Stokes equations on the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We study an interface-capturing two-phase fluid model in which the interfacial tension is modelled as a volumetric stress. Since these stresses are obtainable from a Van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard free energy, the model is, to a certain…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 B. T. Nadiga , S. Zaleski

In this article we consider the numerical modeling and simulation via the phase field approach of two-phase flows of different densities and viscosities in superposed fluid and porous layers. The model consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Xiaoming He , Ulrich Rüde

We analyze a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible viscous two-phase flows, incorporating mechanisms such as chemotaxis, active transport, and long-range interactions of Oono's type. The evolution system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jingning He , Hao Wu

We consider coarsening dynamics associated with a Burgers--Cahn--Hilliard system modeling a two-phase flow in one space dimension. Our emphasis is on the effect that coupling between the phase and fluid dynamics has on coarsening rates, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

A Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system for two-phase flow on an evolving surface with non-matched densities is derived using methods from rational thermodynamics. For a Cahn-Hilliard energy with a singular (logarithmic) potential short time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

In this work, we propose a new model for flow through deformable porous media, where the solid material has two phases with distinct material properties. The two phases of the porous material follow a Cahn-Hilliard type evolution, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

In this paper, we study the longtime asymptotic behavior of a phase separation process occurring in a three-dimensional domain containing a fluid flow of given velocity. This process is modeled by a viscous convective Cahn-Hilliard system,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

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 introduce a new phase field model for binary mixtures of incompressible micropolar fluids, which are among the simplest categories of fluids exhibiting internal rotations. The model fulfils local and global dissipation inequalities so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Kin Shing Chan , Baoli Hao , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

A phase-field model for two-phase immiscible, incompressible porous media flow with surface tension effects is considered. The pore-scale model consists of a strongly coupled system of Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations. The fluids are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

A new model for viscoelastic phase separation is proposed, based on a systematically derived conservative two-fluid model. Dissipative effects are included by phenomenological viscoelastic terms. By construction, the model is consistent…

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability of two immiscible fluids in the limit of small Atwood numbers is studied by means of a phase-field description. In this method the sharp fluid interface is replaced by a thin, yet finite, transition layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Celani , Andrea Mazzino , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Lara Vozella

We report on two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in immiscible fluids. A diffuse-interface model that combines the Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the volume fraction of one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Raphael Zanella , György Tegze , Romain LeTellier , Hervé Henry

We introduce a new concept of dissipative varifold solution to models of two phase compressible viscous fluids. In contrast with the existing approach based on the Young measure description, the new formulation is variational combining the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Eduard Feireisl , Antonin Novotny

This paper is concerned with a diffusion model of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, interpreted as balances of microforces and microenergy, for two unknowns: the problem's order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu