Numerical methods to simulate spontaneous imbibition in microscopic pore structures: A review

Y Zhou, W Guan, C Zhao, X Zou, Z He, H Zhao - Capillarity, 2024 - yandy-ager.com
Spontaneous imbibition, as a fundamental flow phenomenon, is widely utilized in fossil
energy production, carbon dioxide and underground hydrogen storage. With the …

Improved hybrid Allen-Cahn phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible two-phase flows

X Liu, Z Chai, B Shi - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
In this work we develop an improved phase-field based lattice Boltzmann (LB) method
where a hybrid Allen-Cahn equation (ACE) with a flexible weight instead of a global weight …

Modified diffuse interface fluid model and its consistent energy-stable computation in arbitrary domains

J Yang, Z Tan, J Wang, J Kim - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Binary fluid flows in irregular domains are common phenomena in natural and industrial
fields. To describe these physical processes, we herein present a novel fluid flow-coupled …

Consistent and conservative lattice Boltzmann method for axisymmetric multiphase electrohydrodynamic flows

X Liu, Z Chai, B Shi, X Yuan - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we first develop a consistent and conservative mathematical model to study
multiphase electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flows, including the reduction-consistent and …

A ternary phase-field model for two-phase flows in complex geometries

C Zhan, Z Chai, B Shi - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a ternary phase-field model for two-phase flows in complex geometries is
proposed. In this model, one of the three components in the classical ternary Cahn–Hilliard …

Directional transport of a droplet on biomimetic ratchet structure

F Shan, Z Chai, B Shi, J Xiao, C Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Directional liquid transport is of importance in some engineering fields, and the problem is
also very complicated since it involves interface moving, deforming, and pinning/depinning …

Sharp-interface limits of Cahn–Hilliard models and mechanics with moving contact lines

L Schmeller, D Peschka - Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 2024 - SIAM
We consider the fluid-structure interaction of viscoelastic solids and Stokesian multiphase
fluid flows with moving capillary interfaces and investigate the impact of moving contact …

Efficient diffusion domain modeling and fast numerical methods for diblock copolymer melt in complex domains

Y Wang, X Xiao, H Zhang, X Qian, S Song - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
The numerical simulation of diblock copolymers under hydrodynamic action in complex
domains is of great significance in academic research and industrial applications. The …

A comparative study of two Allen-Cahn models for immiscible -phase flows by using a consistent and conservative lattice Boltzmann method

C Zhan, X Liu, Z Chai, B Shi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06983, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this work, we conduct a detailed comparison between two second-order conservative
Allen-Cahn (AC) models [\emph {Model A}: Zheng\emph {et al.}, Phys. Rev. E 101, 0433202 …

Macroscopic finite-difference scheme based on the mesoscopic regularized lattice-Boltzmann method

X Liu, Y Chen, Z Chai, B Shi - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
In this paper, we develop a macroscopic finite-difference scheme from the mesoscopic
regularized lattice Boltzmann (RLB) method to solve the Navier-Stokes equations (NSEs) …