A Hele-Shaw-Cahn-Hilliard model for incompressible two-phase flows with different densities

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DOI10.1007/S00021-017-0334-5zbMATH Open1394.35353arXiv1701.05070OpenAlexW3099502594MaRDI QIDQ721401FDOQ721401


Authors: Luca Dedé, Harald Garcke, Kei Fong Lam Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 July 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model introduced by Abels, Garcke and Gr"{u}n (Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 2012), which uses a volume averaged velocity, we derive a diffuse interface model in a Hele-Shaw geometry, which in the case of non-matched densities, simplifies an earlier model of Lee, Lowengrub and Goodman (Phys. Fluids 2002). We recover the classical Hele-Shaw model as a sharp interface limit of the diffuse interface model. Furthermore, we show the existence of weak solutions and present several numerical computations including situations with rising bubbles and fingering instabilities.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05070




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