On a diffuse interface model for incompressible viscoelastic two-phase flows

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Yadong, Trautwein, Dennis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916479574736896
author Liu, Yadong
Trautwein, Dennis
author_facet Liu, Yadong
Trautwein, Dennis
contents This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where the two components are partially mixed. Considering the elasticity of both components, one ends up with a coupled Oldroyd-B/Cahn--Hilliard type system, which describes the behavior of two-phase viscoelastic fluids. We prove the existence of weak solutions to the system in two dimensions for general (unmatched) mass densities, variable viscosities, different shear moduli, and a class of physically relevant and singular free energy densities that guarantee that the order parameter stays in the physically reasonable interval. The proof relies on a combination of a regularization of the original system and a new hybrid implicit time discretization for the regularized system together with the analysis of an Oldroyd-B type equation.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2212_13507
institution arXiv
publishDate 2022
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle On a diffuse interface model for incompressible viscoelastic two-phase flows
Liu, Yadong
Trautwein, Dennis
Analysis of PDEs
This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where the two components are partially mixed. Considering the elasticity of both components, one ends up with a coupled Oldroyd-B/Cahn--Hilliard type system, which describes the behavior of two-phase viscoelastic fluids. We prove the existence of weak solutions to the system in two dimensions for general (unmatched) mass densities, variable viscosities, different shear moduli, and a class of physically relevant and singular free energy densities that guarantee that the order parameter stays in the physically reasonable interval. The proof relies on a combination of a regularization of the original system and a new hybrid implicit time discretization for the regularized system together with the analysis of an Oldroyd-B type equation.
title On a diffuse interface model for incompressible viscoelastic two-phase flows
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13507