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In this work, we design and analyze semi/fully-discrete virtual element approximations for the time-dependent Navier--Stokes-Cahn--Hilliard equations, modeling the dynamics of two-phase incompressible fluid flows with diffuse interfaces. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alberth Silgado , Giuseppe Vacca

The application of modern topology optimization techniques to single physics systems has seen great advances in the last three decades. However, the application of these tools to sophisticated multiphysics systems such as fluid-structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Mohamed Abdelhamid , Aleksander Czekanski

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Magdalena Schreter-Fleischhacker , Peter Munch , Nils Much , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier

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 fully Eulerian hybrid immersed-boundary/phase-field model to simulate wetting and contact line motion over any arbitrary geometry. The solid wall is described with a volume-penalisation ghost-cell immersed boundary whereas the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Armin Shahmardi , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

The Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system utilizes a diffusive phase-field for interface tracking of multi-phase fluid flows. Recently structure preserving methods for CHNS have moved into focus to construct numerical schemes that, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Jimmy Kornelije Gunnarsson , Robert Klöfkorn

In this work, we develop a cut-based unfitted finite element formulation for solving nonlinear, nonstationary fluid-structure interaction with contact in Eulerian coordinates. In the Eulerian description fluid flow modeled by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We consider the problem of finding optimal shapes of fluid domains. The fluid obeys the Navier--Stokes equations. Inside a holdall container we use a phase field approach using diffuse interfaces to describe the domain of free flow. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

We study a generalization of the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for an incompressible fluid where the deviatoric part of the Cauchy stress tensor is related to the symmetric part of the velocity gradient via a maximal monotone 2-graph that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Erika Maringová , Josef Žabenský

In this paper we consider a multiscale phase-field model for capillarity-driven flows in porous media. The presented model constitutes a reduction of the conventional Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model, valid in situations where…

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model that describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities and a soluble surfactant in a bounded domain of two or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Bohan Ouyang , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

Liquid droplets sliding along solid surfaces are a frequently observed phenomenon in nature, e.g., raindrops on a leaf, and in everyday situations, e.g., drops of water in a drinking glass. To model this situation, we use a phase field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henning Bonart , Christian Kahle , Jens-Uwe Repke

In this paper, we present a novel approach to model the fluid/solid interaction forces in a direct solver of the Navier-Stokes equations based on the volume of fluid interface tracking method. The key ingredient of the model is the explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kyle Mahady , Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic

We present and analyze a variational front-tracking method for a sharp-interface model of multiphase flow. The fluid interfaces between different phases are represented by curve networks in two space dimensions (2d) or surface clusters in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

A well-established numerical approach to solve the Navier--Stokes equations for incompressible fluids is Chorin's projection method, whereby the fluid velocity is explicitly updated, and then an elliptic problem for the pressure is solved,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-17 Chris H. Rycroft , Yi Sui , Eran Bouchbinder

We investigate a diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase viscous flows with surfactant. The resulting system of partial differential equations consists of a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Andrea Di Primio , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

We study a quasi-incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard coupled system which describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible incompressible viscous fluids with partial mixing in a small interfacial region and long-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Daozhi Han , Yadong Liu

Efficient simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow is a long standing problem in applied mathematics, for which state-of-the-art methods require large compute resources. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jonathan Tompson , Kristofer Schlachter , Pablo Sprechmann , Ken Perlin

We consider a phase-field model for the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids. This model extends widespread models for two fluid phases by including a third, solid phase, which can evolve due to e.g. precipitation and dissolution.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Lars von Wolff , Iuliu Sorin Pop

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li