Published November 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Well-posedness of an isothermal diffusive model for binary mixtures of incompressible fluids

  • 1. Faculty of Engineering, University e-campus, 22060 Novedrate (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna (Italy)

Description

We consider a model describing the behaviour of a mixture of two incompressible fluids with the same density under isothermal conditions. The model consists of three balance equations: a continuity equation, a Navier–Stokes equation for the mean velocity of the mixture and a diffusion equation (Cahn–Hilliard equation). We assume that the chemical potential depends on the velocity of the mixture in such a way that an increase in the velocity improves the miscibility of the mixture. We examine the thermodynamic consistence of the model which leads to the introduction of an additional constitutive force in the motion equation. Then, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the resulting differential problem

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/24/11/008

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0951-7715/24/11/008;
PII
S0951-7715(11)96572-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nonlinearity (Print)
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 3143-3164
ISSN
0951-7715

INIS