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In materials science the phase field crystal approach has become popular to model crystallization processes. Phase field crystal models are in essence Landau-Ginzburg-type models, which should be derivable from the underlying microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Oettel , S. Dorosz , M. Berghoff , B. Nestler , T. Schilling

We investigate a new phase field model for representing non-oriented interfaces, approximating their area and simulating their area-minimizing flow. Our contribution is related to the approach proposed in arXiv:2105.09627 that involves ad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Elie Bretin , Antonin Chambolle , Simon Masnou

Imbibition is a commonly encountered multiphase problem in various fields, and exact prediction of imbibition processes is a key issue for better understanding capillary flow in heterogeneous porous media. In this work, a numerical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-22 Si Suo , Mingchao Liu , Yixiang Gan

This paper concludes a three-part effort aimed at developing a consistent and unified framework for the phase-field modeling of cohesive fracture. Building on the theoretical foundations established in the first two parts, which included a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Roberto Alessi , Francesco Colasanto , Matteo Focardi

Hybrid particle-field methods are computationally efficient approaches for modelling soft matter systems. So far applications of these methodologies have been limited to constant volume conditions. Here, we reformulate particle-field…

A simple theoretical approach is used to investigate active colloids at the free interface and near repulsive substrates. We employ dynamical density functional theory to determine the steady-state density profiles in an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-03 René Wittmann , Joseph M. Brader

The theory of interfacial properties in liquid-liquid or liquid-vapour systems is nearly 200 years old. The advent of computational tools has greatly advanced the field, mainly through the use of Molecular Dynamics simulations. Despite the…

Phase-field modeling -- a continuous approach to discontinuities -- is gaining popularity for simulating rock fractures due to its ability to handle complex, discontinuous geometry without an explicit surface tracking algorithm. None of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Fan Fei , Jinhyun Choo , Chong Liu , Joshua A. White

Phase-field simulations are a practical but also expensive tool to calculate microstructural evolution. This work aims to compare explicit time integrators for a broad class of phase-field models involving coupling between the phase-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Marco Seiz , Tomohiro Takaki

In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann model is proposed to simulate solid-liquid phase change phenomena in multiphase systems. The model couples the thermal properties of the solidification front with the dynamics of the liquid droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-04 Jiangxu Huang , Lei Wang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

A coupled phase-field and hydrodynamic model is introduced to describe a two-phase, weakly compressible smectic (layered phase) in contact with an isotropic fluid of different density. A non-conserved smectic order parameter is coupled to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-02 Eduardo Vitral , Perry H. Leo , Jorge Viñals

Phase interfaces in melting and solidification processes are strongly affected by the presence of convection in the liquid. One way of modeling their transient evolution is to couple an incompressible flow model to an energy balance in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-11 Alexander G. Zimmerman , Julia Kowalski

The properties of the interface between solid and melt are key to solidification and melting, as the interfacial free energy introduces a kinetic barrier to phase transitions. This makes solidification happen below the melting temperature,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-02 Bingqing Cheng , Gareth A. Tribello , Michele Ceriotti

From a simple bulk model for the one-dimensional steady-state solidification of a dilute binary alloy we derive an interface description, allowing arbitrary values of the growth velocity. Our derivation leads to exact expressions for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Alexander L. Korzhenevskii , Richard Bausch , Rudi Schmitz

We propose a new phenomenological approach for describing the dynamics of wetting front propagation in porous media. Unlike traditional models, the proposed approach is based on dynamic nature of the relation between capillary pressure and…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Mitkov , Daniel M. Tartakovsky , C. Larrabee Winter

Advanced phase-field techniques have been applied to address various aspects of polycrystalline solidification including different modes of crystal nucleation. The height of the nucleation barrier has been determined by solving the…

Coherency misfit stresses and their related anisotropies are known to influence the equilibrium shapes of precipitates. Additionally, mechanical properties of the alloys are also dependent on the shapes of the precipitates. Therefore, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Bhalchandra Bhadak , R. Sankarasubramanian , Abhik Choudhury

In this paper, a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model is proposed to describe the mass transport and reaction processes of multiple species in a fluid. A key feature of this model is that reactions between different species occur…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Zhaoyang Wang , Huaxiong Huang , Ping Lin , Shixin Xu

Over the past few decades, the phase-field method for fracture has seen widespread appeal due to the many benefits associated with its ability to regularize a sharp crack geometry. Along the way, several different models for including the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Andre Costa , Tianchen Hu , John Dolbow

This paper presents a modeling framework to describe the driving mechanisms of cyclic failure in brittle and ductile materials, including cyclic plasticity and fatigue crack growth. A variational model is devised using the energetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Jacinto Ulloa , Jef Wambacq , Roberto Alessi , Geert Degrande , Stijn François