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The dynamics of dry active matter have implications for a diverse collection of biological phenomena spanning a range of length and time scales, such as animal flocking, cell tissue dynamics, and swarming of inserts and bacteria. Uniting…

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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…

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The wetting dynamics of liquid particles, from coated droplets to soft capsules, holds significant technological interest. Motivated by the need to simulate liquid metal droplet with an oxidize surface layer, in this work we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-14 Francesca Pelusi , Fabio Guglietta , Marcello Sega , Othmane Aouane , Jens Harting

We construct a phase field model including hydrodynamics and elasticity in one-component systems. It can be used to investigate solid-liquid and liquid-liquid phase transitions. Upon first-order phase transition, a velocity field is induced…

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We present accurate and mathematically consistent formulations of a diffuse-interface model for two-phase flow problems involving rapid evaporation. The model addresses challenges including discontinuities in the density field by several…

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In this work, we aim to develop a phase-field based lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for simulating two-phase electrohydrodynamics (EHD) flows, which allows for different properties (densities, viscosities, conductivity and permittivity) of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Fang Xiong , Lei Wang , Jiangxu Huang , Kang Luo

The transport of a passive scalar restricted on interfaces, which is advected by the fluid motions have numerous applications in multiphase transport phenomena. A prototypical example is the advection-diffusion of the concentration field of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 William Schupbach , Kannan Premnath

We propose a lattice Boltzmann color-gradient model for immiscible ternary fluid flows, which is applicable to the fluids with a full range of interfacial tensions, especially in near-critical and critical states. An interfacial force for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Yuan Yu , Haihu Liu , Dong Liang , Yonghao Zhang

A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Wolfgang Dreyer , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Kraus

Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

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This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tim Wallis , Philip Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

In this paper, a novel lattice Boltzmann (LB) model based on the Allen-Cahn phase-field theory is proposed for simulating axisymmetric multiphase flows. The most striking feature of the model is that it enables to handle multiphase flows…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Hong Liang , Yang Li , Jiangxing Chen , Jiangrong Xu

With the rapid development of studies involving droplet microfluidics, drug delivery, cell detection, and microparticle synthesis, among others, many scientists have invested significant efforts to model the flow of these fluid-filled…

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

The phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann (LB) model has been developed to perform high fidelity multiphase flow simulations. Its ability to accurately handle high density ratio and surface tension effects is expected to be beneficial for…

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A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

In this paper, a multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (LB) approach is developed for the simulation of three-dimensional (3D) liquid-vapor phase change based on the pseudopotential model. In contrast to some existing 3D thermal LB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Jiangxu Huang , Lei Wang , Kun He , Changsheng Huang

Water-ice systems undergoing melting develop complex spatio-temporal interface dynamics and a non-trivial temperature field. In this contribution, we present computational aspects of a recently conducted validation study that aims at…

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