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arXiv:1608.05361v2 [physics.flu-dyn] 17 Dec 2016
A regularity criterion for solutions of the three-dimensional
Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations and associated computations
John D. Gibbon1, Nairita Pal2, Anupam Gupta3, and Rahul Pandit2
1Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
2Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India.
3Department of Physics, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, 00133 Roma, Italy.
(Dated: August 27, 2021)
We consider the 3D Cahn-Hilliard equations coupled to, and driven by, the forced, incompressible
3D Navier-Stokes equations. The combination, known as the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS)
equations, is used in statistical mechanics to model the motion of a binary fluid. The potential
development of singularities (blow-up) in the contours of the order parameter φis an open problem.
To address this we have proved a theorem that closely mimics the Beale-Kato-Majda theorem for
the 3D incompressible Euler equations [Beale et al. Commun. Math. Phys., 94 6166 (1984)]. By
taking an L∞norm of the energy of the full binary system, designated as E∞, we have shown that
Rt
0E∞(τ)dτ governs the regularity of solutions of the full 3D system. Our direct numerical simula-
tions (DNSs), of the 3D CHNS equations, for (a) a gravity-driven Rayleigh Taylor instability and
(b) a constant-energy-injection forcing, with 1283to 5123collocation points and over the duration
of our DNSs, confirm that E∞remains bounded as far as our computations allow.
PACS numbers: 47.10.A-,47.27.E-,47.27.ek,Navier-Stokes equations, Integro-partial differential equations,
Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory, Two-phase and multiphase flows
I. INTRODUCTION
The Navier-Stokes (NS) equations [1–6], the funda-
mental partial differential equations (PDEs) that govern
viscous fluid dynamics, date back to 1822. Since its in-
troduction in 1958 the Cahn-Hilliard (CH) PDE [7], the
fundamental equation for the statistical mechanics of bi-
nary mixtures, has been used extensively in studies of
critical phenomena, phase transitions [8–12, 15], nucle-
ation [16], spinodal decomposition [17–21], and the late
stages of phase separation [21, 22]. If the two compo-
nents of the binary mixture are fluids, the CH and NS
equations must be coupled, where the resulting system of
PDEs is usually referred to as Model H [9] or the Cahn-
Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations.
The increasing growth of interest in the CHNS equa-
tions arises from the elegant way in which they allow
us to follow the spatio-temporal evolution of the two
fluids in the mixture and the interfaces between them.
These interfaces are diffuse, so we do not have to im-
pose boundary conditions on the moving boundaries be-
tween two different fluids, as in other methods for the
simulation of multi-phase flows [12–14]. However, in
addition to a velocity field u, we must also follow the
scalar, order-parameter field φ, which distinguishes the
two phases in a binary-fluid mixture. Here, interfacial
regions are characterized by large gradients in φ. The
CHNS equations have been used to model many binary-
fluid systems that are of great current interest : exam-
ples include studies of (a) the Rayleigh-Taylor instabil-
ity [23, 24] ; (b) turbulence-induced suppression of the
phase separation of the two components of the binary
fluid [19] ; (c) multifractal droplet dynamics in a tur-
bulent, binary-fluid mixture [25] ; (d) the coalescence of
droplets [26] ; and (e) lattice-Boltzmann treatments of
multi-phase flows [19, 27].
The system of Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS)
equations are written as follows [24, 28–30] :
(∂t+u· ∇)u=−∇p/ρ +ν∇2u−αu−(φ∇µ)
−Ag+f,(1)
(∂t+u· ∇)φ=γ∇2µ , (2)
where pis the pressure, and ρ(= 1) is the constant
density, together with the incompressibility condition
∇·u= 0. In Eq. (1), u≡(ux, uy, uz) is the fluid velocity
and νis the kinematic viscosity. In the 2D case uz= 0
and α, the air-drag-induced friction, should be included,
but in 3D we set α= 0. φ(x, t) is the order-parameter
field at the point xand time t[with φ(x, t)>0 in the
lighter phase and φ(x, t)<0 in the heavier phase]. The
third term on the right-hand side of Eq. (1) couples u
to φvia the chemical potential µ(x, t), which is related
to the the free energy Fof the Cahn-Hilliard system as
follows :
µ=δF[φ]/δφ(x, t),(3)
F[φ] = Λ ZV1
2|∇φ|2+ (φ2−1)2/(4ξ2)dV , (4)
where Λ is the energy density with which the two phases
mix in the interfacial regime [24], ξsets the scale of the
interface width, σ= 2(2 1
2)Λ/3ξis the surface tension,
γis the mobility [29] of the binary-fluid mixture, A=
(ρ2−ρ1)/(ρ2+ρ1) is the Atwood number, and gis the
acceleration due to gravity.
While solutions of the CHNS equations have been
shown to be regular in the 2D-case [31, 32], with an equiv-
alent body of literature associated with the CH equations