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This work demonstrates a computational framework for simulating vaporizing, liquid-gas flows. It is developed for the general vaporization problem which solves the vaporization rate based as from the local thermodynamic equilibrium of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 John Palmore , Olivier Desjardins

We study a recent formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems based on the use of a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. In this paper, we focus our attention on a crucial computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

This work presents a robust and efficient sharp interface immersed boundary (IBM) framework, which is applicable for all-speed flow regimes and is capable of handling arbitrarily complex bodies (stationary or moving). The work deploys an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Pradeep Kumar Seshadri , Ashoke De

This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

The interfacial diffusion associated with finite volume method (FVM) discretizations of multiphase flows creates the need for an interface sharpening mechanism. Such solutions for structured quadrilateral grids are well documented, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. Marziale , J. Sun , D. Salac , J. Chen

Multiphase flows are characterized by sharp moving interfaces, separating different fluids or phases. In many cases the dynamics of the interface determines the behavior of the flow. In a coarse, or reduced order model, it may therefore be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-12 Xianyang Chen , Jiacai Lu , Gretar Tryggvason

Multiphase flows are commonly found in chemical engineering processes such as distillation columns, bubble columns, fluidized beds and heat exchangers. The physical boundaries of domains in numerical simulations of multiphase flows are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-21 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

We present a Pressure-Oscillation-Free projection algorithm for large-density-ratio multiphase fluid-structure interaction simulations, implemented on a non-staggered Cartesian grid. The incompressible Navier-Stokes is decoupled with an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-24 Xiaoshuang Wang , Liwei Tan , Wenjun Ying , Enhao Wang , Yao Xiao , Liangqi Zhang , Zhong Zeng

This work presents a comprehensive framework for enhanced diffusion modeling in fluid-structure interactions by combining the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with stochastic trajectories and high-order spectral boundary conditions. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

Surfactants reside at the interface of two-phase flows and significantly influence the flow dynamics. Numerical simulations are essential for a comprehensive understanding of such surfactant-laden flows and require a method that can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Shu Yamashita , Shintaro Matsushita , Tetsuya Suekane

The immersed interface method (IIM) for models of fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction imposes jump conditions that capture stress discontinuities generated by forces that are concentrated along immersed boundaries. Most prior work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Michael J. Facci , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

The present work focuses on the generalisation of the Spectral Difference (SD) scheme to the reduced Baer-Nunziato system known as five-equation model for the simulation of two immiscible compressible fluids. This five equation model is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-02 Niccolò Tonicello , Guido Lodato , Matthias Ihme

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is one of the popular one-fluid mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian methods to simulate motion of droplets. While the treatment of a moving complex boundary is an extremely time consuming and formidable task in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Chia Rui Ong , Hiroaki Miura

We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

The following paper presents two simulation strategies for compressible two-phase or multicomponent flows. One is a full non-equilibrium model in which the pressure and velocity are driven towards the equilibrium at interfaces by numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Rémi Abgrall , Paola Bacigaluppi , Barbara Re

In this paper we develop a conservative sharp-interface method dedicated to simulating multiple compressible fluids. Numerical treatments for a cut cell shared by more than two materials are proposed. First, we simplify the interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Shucheng Pan , Luhui Han , Xiangyu Hu , Nikolaus. A. Adams

In this work, we first propose a diffuse interface model for simulating N phase flows with solid liquid phase change. In this model, a phase field approach is adopted to capture multiphase fluid interfaces, and an enthalpy based formulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang , Xi Liu

In this work, we use a moving Voronoi and sharp interface approach for simulating two-phase flows. At every time step, the mesh is generated anew from Voronoi seeds that behave as material points. The paper is a continuation of our previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Walter Boscheri

Pure advection of a conservative scalar is relevant to several applications including two-phase flow. Successful numerical schemes must capture the sharp interface between the phases while maintaining a smooth (wrinkle-free) interfacial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yashar Mehmani

Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-20 Timm Krüger , Stefan Frijters , Florian Günther , Badr Kaoui , Jens Harting