Diffuse-interface two-phase flow models with different densities: a new quasi-incompressible form and a linear energy-stable method

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DOI10.1142/S0218202518500197zbMATH Open1390.76047arXiv1603.06475OpenAlexW2745212738MaRDI QIDQ4569641FDOQ4569641

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Publication date: 27 June 2018

Published in: M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: While various phase-field models have recently appeared for two-phase fluids with different densities, only some are known to be thermodynamically consistent, and practical stable schemes for their numerical simulation are lacking. In this paper, we derive a new form of thermodynamically-consistent quasi-incompressible diffuse-interface Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard model for a two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities. The derivation is based on mixture theory by invoking the second law of thermodynamics and Coleman-Noll procedure. We also demonstrate that our model and some of the existing models are equivalent and we provide a unification between them. In addition, we develop a linear and energy-stable time-integration scheme for the derived model. Such a linearly-implicit scheme is nontrivial, because it has to suitably deal with all nonlinear terms, in particular those involving the density. Our proposed scheme is the first linear method for quasi-incompressible two-phase flows with nonsolenoidal velocity that satisfies discrete energy dissipation independent of the time-step size, provided that the mixture density remains positive. The scheme also preserves mass. Numerical experiments verify the suitability of the scheme for two-phase flow applications with high density ratios using large time steps by considering the coalescence and break-up dynamics of droplets including pinching due to gravity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06475




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