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In this paper, two approaches for modeling three-component fluid flows using diffusive interface method are discussed. Thermodynamic consistency of the proposed models is preserved when using an energetic variational framework to derive the…
We introduce a phenomenological continuum model for mode III dynamic fracture that is based on the phase-field methodology used extensively to model interfacial pattern formation. We couple a scalar field, which distinguishes between…
We present a novel phase-field model development capability in the open source MOOSE finite element framework. This facility is based on the 'modular free energy' approach in which the phase-field equations are implemented in a general form…
This study presents a novel pressure-based methodology for the efficient numerical solution of a four-equation two-phase diffuse interface model. The proposed methodology has the potential to simulate low-Mach flows with mass transfer. In…
In this paper we report on 2D numerical simulations concerning linear and nonlinear evolution of surface-tension-driven instability in two-fluid systems heated from below using classical and phase-field models. In the phase-field formalism,…
We characterize both analytically and numerically short-range forces between spatially diffuse interfaces in multi-phase-field models of polycrystalline materials. During late-stage solidification, crystal-melt interfaces may attract or…
The present contribution proposes a thermodynamically consistent model for the simulation of the ductile damage. The model couples the phase field method of fracture to the Armstrong-Frederick plasticity model with kinematic hardening. The…
In this paper, we investigate numerical methods for solving Nickel-based phase field system related to free energy, including the elastic energy and logarithmic type functionals. To address the challenge posed by the particular free energy…
Phase field models have been applied in recent years to grain boundaries in single-component systems. The models are based on the minimization of a free energy functional, which is constructed phenomenologically rather than being derived…
We describe a general phase-field model for hyperelastic multiphase materials. The model features an elastic energy functional that depends on the phase-field variable and a surface energy term that depends in turn on the elastic…
In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…
In this contribution, a novel framework for simulating mixed-mode failure in rock is presented. Based on a hybrid phase-field model for mixed-mode fracture, separate phase-field variables are introduced for tensile (mode I) and shear (mode…
In this work, we propose a novel phase-field model for the simulation of two-phase flows that is accurate, conservative, bounded, and robust. The proposed model conserves the mass of each of the phases, and results in bounded transport of…
This work deals with numerical simulation of water freezing and thawing in a complex three-dimensional geometry of a porous medium. The porous structure is represented by a virtual container filled with glass beads. Phase transition…
Using a fixed Eulerian mesh, the phase-field method has been successfully utilized for a broad range of moving boundary problems involving multiphase fluids and single-phase fluid-structure interaction. Nevertheless, multiphase fluids…
Most of the lattice Boltzmann methods simulate an approximation of the sharp interface problem of dissolution and precipitation. In such studies the curvature-driven motion of interface is neglected in the Gibbs-Thomson condition. In order…
Phase field modelling offers an extremely general framework to predict microstructural evolutions in complex systems. However, its computational implementation requires a discretisation scheme with a grid spacing small enough to preserve…
We present a non-diagonal phase field model for phase transformations with unequal but finite diffusivities in the two phases. This model allows to recover the desired boundary conditions at the interface, and especially the elimination of…
We recently described a general solution to the phase matching problem that arises when one wishes to perform an arbitrary number of nonlinear optical processes in a single medium [PRL 95 (2005) 133901]. Here we outline in detail the…
This article presents a multi-phase-field poromechanics model that simulates the growth and thaw of ice lenses and the resultant frozen heave and thaw settlement in multi-constituent frozen soils. In this model, the growth of segregated ice…