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We consider the dynamics of two-phase fluids, in particular the moving contact line, on a solid substrate. The dynamics are governed by the sharp-interface model consisting of the incompressible Navier-Stokes\slash Stokes equations with the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Quan Zhao , Weiqing Ren

We propose a variant of the $\theta$-scheme for diffuse interface models for two-phase flow, together with three new linearization techniques for the surface tension. These involve either additional stabilizing force terms, or a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Sebastian Aland

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

The prototypical diffuse-interface model that describes multi-component flows is the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard model (NSCH). Over the last decades many NSCH models have appeared that claim to describe the same physical phenomena, yet are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-17 M. ten Eikelder , D. Schillinger

We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem in the Eulerian, phase-field formulation. The problem is described using the Navier--Stokes equations for a viscous, incompressible fluid, coupled with the incompressible hyperelasticity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Francis R. A. Aznaran , Martina Bukač , Boris Muha

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

In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

We consider the numerical approximations of a two-phase hydrodynamics coupled phase-field model that incorporates the variable densities, viscosities and moving contact line boundary conditions. The model is a nonlinear, coupled system that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Haijun Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

This report presents a low computational and cognitive complexity, stable, time accurate and adaptive method for the Navier-Stokes equations. The improved method requires a minimally intrusive modification to an existing program based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Victor DeCaria , William Layton , Haiyun Zhao

The paper is devoted to the simulation of maritime two-phase flows of air and water. Emphasis is put on an extension of the classical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method by a diffusive contribution derived from a Cahn-Hilliard (CH) model and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Niklas Kühl , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

With the aim of efficiently simulating three-dimensional multiphase turbulent flows with a phase-field method, we propose a new discretization scheme for the biharmonic term (the 4th-order derivative term) of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Ran Liu , Chong Shen Ng , Kai Leong Chong , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

We investigate a hydrodynamic system of Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard type, which describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with unmatched densities coupled with a soluble chemical species. Derived from Onsager's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrea Giorgini , Jingning He , Hao Wu

A Cahn-Hilliard-Allen-Cahn phase-field model coupled with a heat transfer equation, particularly with full non-diagonal mobility matrices, is studied. After reformulating the problem w.r.t. the inverse of temperature, we proposed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Aaron Brunk , Oliver Habrich , Timileyin David Oyedeji , Yangyiwei Yang , Bai-Xiang Xu

Transport of electrolytic solutions under influence of electric fields occurs in phenomena ranging from biology to geophysics. Here, we present a continuum model for single-phase electrohydrodynamic flow, which can be derived from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 Gaute Linga , Asger Bolet , Joachim Mathiesen

We present a linear, second order fully discrete numerical scheme on a staggered grid for a thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field model of binary compressible fluid flow mixtures derived from the generalized Onsager…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

In the present study, a consistent and conservative Phase-Field model is developed to study thermo-gas-liquid-solid flows with liquid-solid phase change. The proposed model is derived with the help of the consistency conditions and exactly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

In this work we introduce the development of a three--phase incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard numerical method to simulate three--phase flows, present in many industrial operations. The numerical method is then applied to…

We derive a continuum sharp-interface model for moving contact lines with soluble surfactants in a thermodynamically consistent framework. The model consists of the isothermal two-phase incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Quan Zhao , Weiqing Ren , Zhen Zhang

We present a two-phase field model and a hybrid particle-phase field model to simulate dilute colloidal sedimentation and flotation near a liquid-gas interface (or fluid-fluid interface in general). Both models are coupled to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-01 Alexandra J. Hardy , Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Elsen Tjhung