Approximation of Classical Two-Phase Flows of Viscous Incompressible Fluids by a Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn System

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Main Authors: Abels, Helmut, Fischer, Julian, Moser, Maximilian
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author Abels, Helmut
Fischer, Julian
Moser, Maximilian
author_facet Abels, Helmut
Fischer, Julian
Moser, Maximilian
contents We show convergence of the Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system to a classical sharp interface model for the two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with same viscosities in a smooth bounded domain in two and three space dimensions as long as a smooth solution of the limit system exists. Moreover, we obtain error estimates with the aid of a relative entropy method. Our results hold provided that the mobility $m_\varepsilon>0$ in the Allen-Cahn equation tends to zero in a subcritical way, i.e., $m_\varepsilon= m_0 \varepsilon^β$ for some $β\in (0,2)$ and $m_0>0$. The proof proceeds by showing via a relative entropy argument that the solution to the Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system remains close to the solution of a perturbed version of the two-phase flow problem, augmented by an extra mean curvature flow term $m_\varepsilon H_{Γ_t}$ in the interface motion. In a second step, it is easy to see that the solution to the perturbed problem is close to the original two-phase flow.
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spellingShingle Approximation of Classical Two-Phase Flows of Viscous Incompressible Fluids by a Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn System
Abels, Helmut
Fischer, Julian
Moser, Maximilian
Analysis of PDEs
76T06, 35Q30, 35Q35, 35R35, 76D05, 76D45
We show convergence of the Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system to a classical sharp interface model for the two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with same viscosities in a smooth bounded domain in two and three space dimensions as long as a smooth solution of the limit system exists. Moreover, we obtain error estimates with the aid of a relative entropy method. Our results hold provided that the mobility $m_\varepsilon>0$ in the Allen-Cahn equation tends to zero in a subcritical way, i.e., $m_\varepsilon= m_0 \varepsilon^β$ for some $β\in (0,2)$ and $m_0>0$. The proof proceeds by showing via a relative entropy argument that the solution to the Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system remains close to the solution of a perturbed version of the two-phase flow problem, augmented by an extra mean curvature flow term $m_\varepsilon H_{Γ_t}$ in the interface motion. In a second step, it is easy to see that the solution to the perturbed problem is close to the original two-phase flow.
title Approximation of Classical Two-Phase Flows of Viscous Incompressible Fluids by a Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn System
topic Analysis of PDEs
76T06, 35Q30, 35Q35, 35R35, 76D05, 76D45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02997