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Phase field models have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for simulating complex interface-driven phenomena across a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. In fracture mechanics, the phase field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Md Mamun Miah , Ryuhei Wakida , Masato Kimura

In this paper we present a balanced phase field model for active surfaces. This work is devoted to the generalization of the Balanced Phase Field Model for Active Contours devised to eliminate the often undesirable curvature-dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Jozsef Molnar , Peter Horvath

A model of multicellular systems with several types of cells is developed from the phase field model. The model is presented as a set of partial differential equations of the field variables, each of which expresses the shape of one cell.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Makiko Nonomura

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations of a hydrodynamically coupled phase field diblock copolymer model, in which the free energy contains a kinetic potential, a gradient entropy, a Ginzburg-Landau double well potential, and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Qing Cheng , Xiaofeng Yang , Jie Shen

This article presents a new phase-field formulation for non-equilibrium interface conditions in rapid phase transformations. With a particular way of defining concentration fields, the classical sharp and diffuse (thick) interface theories…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-03 Yue Li , Lei Wang , Junjie Li , Jincheng Wang , Zhijun Wang

The phase transition kinetics in three phase systems was investigated using the numerically efficient cell dynamics method. A phasefield model with a simple analytical free energy and single order parameter was used to study the kinetics…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-23 Masao Iwamatsu

We introduce a phase-field method for continuous modeling of cracks with frictional contacts. Compared with standard discrete methods for frictional contacts, the phase-field method has two attractive features: (1) it can represent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Fan Fei , Jinhyun Choo

A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method, including both the model and scheme, is developed for multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible and incompressible fluid phases. The consistency of mass conservation and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

Phase field models for two-phase flow with a surfactant soluble in possibly both fluids are derived from balance equations and an energy inequality so that thermodynamic consistency is guaranteed. Via a formal asymptotic analysis, they are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

A mean-field density-functional model for three-phase equilibria in fluids (or other soft condensed matter) with two spatially varying densities is analyzed analytically and numerically. The interfacial tension between any two out of three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 Kenichiro Koga , Joseph O. Indekeu

A phase-field model that allows for quantitative simulations of low-speed eutectic and peritectic solidification under typical experimental conditions is developed. Its cornerstone is a smooth free-energy functional, designed so that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Folch , M. Plapp

A general diffuse interface model with a realistic equation of state (e.g. Peng-Robinson equation of state) is proposed to describe the multi-component two-phase fluid flow based on the principles of the NVT-based framework which is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

We present an overview of phase field modeling of active matter systems as a tool for capturing various aspects of complex and active interfaces. We first describe how interfaces between different phases are characterized in phase field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-26 Romain Mueller , Amin Doostmohammadi

In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of a binary fluid-surfactant phase field model, in which the free energy contains a nonlinear coupling entropy, a Ginzburg-Landau double well potential, and a logarithmic Flory-Huggins…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Xiaofeng Yang , Lili Ju

The phase-field crystal equation, a parabolic, sixth-order and nonlinear partial differential equation, has generated considerable interest as a possible solution to problems arising in molecular dynamics. This is because the phase-field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Philippe Vignal , Lisandro Dalcin , Donald L. Brown , Nathan Collier , Victor M. Calo

We present a new phase-field model for binary fluids exhibiting typical signatures of self-glassiness, such as long-time relaxation, ageing and long-term dynamical arrest. The present model allows the cost of building an interface to become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Benzi , M. Sbragaglia , M. Bernaschi , S. Succi

In the present work, we propose a consistent and conservative model for multiphase and multicomponent incompressible flows, where there can be arbitrary numbers of phases and components. Each phase has a background fluid called the pure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

In traditional phase-field modeling of multiphase materials, a significant challenge arises from the non-local nature of fracture energy regularization, where interfacial toughness is inherently coupled with the properties of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ye-Hang Qin , Ye Feng

In this paper, we introduce an interfacial profile-preserving approach for phase field modeling for simulating incompressible two-phase flows. While the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation effectively captures the topological evolution of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Haohao Hao , Xiangwei Li , Chenglin Jiang , Huanshu Tan

Using thermodynamic and variational principles we examine a basic phase field model for a mixture of two incompressible fluids in strongly perforated domains. With the help of the multiple scale method with drift and our recently introduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Markus Schmuck , Marc Pradas , Gregorios A. Pavliotis , Serafim Kalliadasis