Based on the publications in aspacts of thermodynamics
kinetics
as well as hydrodynamics
many modeling methods by advanced computer technology were analyzed and the numerical simulation of polymer membranes phase separation process were evaluated in this paper. From simple binary systems to complicated ternary and quternary systems
isothermal to non-isothermal mass transfer
application of self diffusion coefficients to mutual diffusion coefficients
one-dimention diffusion to2D or3D
the results from Monte Carlo
Lattice Boltzmann method
Cahn-Hilliard equation
material and energy equilibrium
dissipative particle dynamics and so on were investigated and analyzed. Dominated by different mechanism
several kind of mass and heat transfer phase separation models were detailed discussed
and important disadvantages were dedicated. The developments of phase separation numerical models were finally prospected from theoretical investigation to prectical application.