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On sharp interface limits for diffuse interface models for two-phase flows. (English) Zbl 1319.76058

Summary: We discuss the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two partly miscible viscous Newtonian fluids of different densities, when a certain parameter \(\varepsilon > 0\) related to the interface thickness tends to zero. In the case that the mobility stays positive or tends to zero slower than linearly in \(\varepsilon\) we will prove that weak solutions tend to varifold solutions of a corresponding sharp interface model. But, if the mobility tends to zero faster than \(\varepsilon^3\) we will show that certain radially symmetric solutions tend to functions, which will not satisfy the Young-Laplace law at the interface in the limit.

MSC:

76T99 Multiphase and multicomponent flows
35R35 Free boundary problems for PDEs
35Q30 Navier-Stokes equations
35Q35 PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics
76D05 Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids
76D45 Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids