Isogeometric analysis of the Cahn–Hilliard phase-field model

H Gómez, VM Calo, Y Bazilevs, TJR Hughes - Computer methods in …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Cahn–Hilliard equation involves fourth-order spatial derivatives. Finite element
solutions are not common because primal variational formulations of fourth-order operators …

A novel fully-decoupled, second-order and energy stable numerical scheme of the conserved Allen–Cahn type flow-coupled binary surfactant model

X Yang - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we establish a binary fluid surfactant model by coupling two mass-conserved
Allen–Cahn equations and the Navier–Stokes equations and consider numerical …

Provably unconditionally stable, second-order time-accurate, mixed variational methods for phase-field models

H Gomez, TJR Hughes - Journal of Computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
We introduce provably unconditionally stable mixed variational methods for phase-field
models. Our formulation is based on a mixed finite element method for space discretization …

A phase-field moving contact line model with soluble surfactants

G Zhu, J Kou, J Yao, A Li, S Sun - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A phase-field moving contact line model is presented for a two-phase system with soluble
surfactants. With the introduction of some scalar auxiliary variables, the original free energy …

Linear and unconditionally energy stable schemes for the binary fluid–surfactant phase field model

X Yang, L Ju - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of a binary fluid–surfactant phase field
model, in which the free energy contains a nonlinear coupling entropy, a Ginzburg–Landau …

Isogeometric analysis of the isothermal Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations

H Gomez, TJR Hughes, X Nogueira, VM Calo - Computer Methods in …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper is devoted to the numerical simulation of the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg
equations, a phase-field model for water/water-vapor two-phase flows. We develop a …

On the convexity of phase-field fracture formulations: Analytical study and comparison of various degradation functions

L Svolos, JYN Plohr, G Manzini, HM Mourad - International Journal of Non …, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficient and accurate fracture modeling is of great importance in applications where
catastrophic outcomes under extreme scenarios are possible. The phase-field (PF) …

On a novel fully decoupled, second-order accurate energy stable numerical scheme for a binary fluid-surfactant phase-field model

X Yang - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2021 - SIAM
The binary fluid surfactant phase-field model, coupled with two Cahn--Hilliard equations and
Navier--Stokes equations, is a very complex nonlinear system, which poses many …

Linear and fully decoupled scheme for a hydrodynamics coupled phase-field surfactant system based on a multiple auxiliary variables approach

J Yang, Z Tan, J Kim - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a linear, fully decoupled, and energy stable finite difference scheme for solving
a phase-field surfactant fluid system. Inspired by the idea of multiple scalar auxiliary …

Numerical approximations for the Cahn–Hilliard phase field model of the binary fluid-surfactant system

X Yang - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2018 - Springer
In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the commonly used binary fluid-
surfactant phase field model that consists two nonlinearly coupled Cahn–Hilliard equations …