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A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split Volume-of-Fluid method generalized for a non-divergence-free liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jordi Poblador-Ibanez , William A. Sirignano

This paper implements topology optimization on two-dimensional manifolds. In this paper, the material interpolation is implemented on a material parameter in the partial differential equation used to describe a physical field, when this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yongbo Deng , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

In this paper, we develop an efficient lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for simulating immiscible incompressible $N$-phase flows $(N \geq 2)$ based on the Cahn-Hilliard phase field theory. In order to facilitate the design of LB model and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiaolei Yuan , Hong Liang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

We propose a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for the flow of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density in a bounded domain. We prove the well-posedness of local-in-time strong solutions by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Alice Marveggio , Andrea Poiatti

A computationally efficient, low order finite element formulation is developed for modelling the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations, which have been established as a promising phase field modelling approach for simulation of immiscible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Aleksander Lovrić , Wulf G. Dettmer , Djordje Perić

We develop a method for modeling and simulating a class of two-phase flows consisting of two immiscible incompressible dielectric fluids and their interactions with imposed external electric fields in two and three dimensions. We first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Jielin Yang , Ivan C. Christov , Suchuan Dong

We consider the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids in the presence of a solid phase that undergoes changes in time due to precipitation and dissolution effects. Based on a seminal sharp interface model a phase field approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Christian Rohde , Lars von Wolff

Active traffic management (ATM) is frequently hindered by traditional macroscopic models and rigid empirical thresholds that fail to capture metastable phase precursors, resulting in delayed, reactive interventions. To address this, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-25 Haopeng Deng , Fucheng Zheng , Xinhai Xia

Several deterministic and stochastic multi-variable global optimization algorithms (Conjugate Gradient, Nelder-Mead, Quasi-Newton, and Global) are investigated in conjunction with energy minimization principle to resolve the pressure and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-08 Taha Sochi

In this work, a new discretization approach for coupled free and porous-medium flows is introduced, which uses a finite volume staggered-grid method for the discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations in the free-flow subdomain, while a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Martin Schneider , Dennis Gläser , Kilian Weishaupt , Edward Coltman , Bernd Flemisch , Rainer Helmig

In this paper we consider the topology optimization for a bipolar plate of a hydrogen electrolysis cell. We use the Borvall-Petersson model to describe the fluid flow and derive a criterion for a uniform flow distribution in the bipolar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Leon Baeck , Sebastian Blauth , Christian Leithäuser , René Pinnau , Kevin Sturm

Phase-field model is a powerful mathematical tool to study the dynamics of interface and morphology changes in fluid mechanics and material sciences. However, numerically solving a phase field model for a real problem is a challenge task…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

An efficient gradient-based method to solve the volume constrained topology optimization problems is presented. Each iterate of this algorithm is obtained by the projection of a Barzilai-Borwein step onto the feasible set consisting of box…

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This paper proposes a hardware-software co-design approach to efficiently optimize beamforming and port selection in fluid antenna systems (FASs). To begin with, a fluid-antenna (FA)-enabled downlink multi-cell multiple-input…

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We present a novel computational modeling framework to numerically investigate fluid-structure interaction in viscous fluids using the phase field embedding method. Each rigid body or elastic structure immersed in the incompressible viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-16 Qi Hong , Qi Wang

In this work we propose a method to perform optimization on manifolds. We assume to have an objective function $f$ defined on a manifold and think of it as the potential energy of a mechanical system. By adding a momentum-dependent kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Marta Ghirardelli

Mixing of binary fluids by moving stirrers is a commonplace process in many industrial applications, where even modest improvements in mixing efficiency could translate into considerable power savings or enhanced product quality. We propose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-27 Maximilian F. Eggl , Peter J. Schmid

The microscopic approach to the description of the phase behaviour and critical phenomena in binary fluid mixtures is proposed. It is based on the method of collective variables with a reference system. The physical nature of the order…

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Mode-based model-reduction is used to reduce the degrees of freedom of high dimensional systems, often by describing the system state by a linear combination of spatial modes. Transport dominated phenomena, ubiquitous in technical and…

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