Preprint

Inserted: 24 nov 2025
Last Updated: 24 nov 2025

Year: 2025

Abstract:

We propose a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for the flow of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density in a bounded domain. We prove the well-posedness of local-in-time strong solutions by means of maximal regularity and contraction mapping arguments. We introduce a suitable entropic weak formulation of the problem, replacing the heat equation by the total energy inequality and an entropy production inequality, and we rigorously prove global-in-time existence of such weak solutions, developing a novel approximation scheme. We also show that an entropic weak solution to this non-isothermal phase-field model converges to a distributional (or BV) solution to a non-isothermal Navier-Stokes/mean curvature flow, under an energy convergence assumption.