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To predict liquid-gas two-phase flow phenomena, accurate tracking and prediction of the evolving liquid-gas interface is required. Volume-of-Fluid or VoF method has been used in the literature for computationally modeling of such flows. In…

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In this paper we present a finite element method (FEM) for two-phase incompressible flows with moving contact lines. We use a sharp interface Navier-Stokes model for the bulk phase fluid dynamics. Surface tension forces, including Marangoni…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-13 A. Reusken , X. Xu , L. Zhang

The paper presents numerical methods for unsteady flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in internal domains with many inlet/outlet sections. The novel variants of dissipative boundary conditions augmented by the inertia terms are used at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Jacek Szumbarski

We consider shape and topology optimization for fluids which are governed by the Navier--Stokes equations. Shapes are modelled with the help of a phase field approach and the solid body is relaxed to be a porous medium. The phase field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

We evaluate an efficient overset grid method for two-dimensional and three-dimensional particulate flows for small numbers of particles at finite Reynolds number. The rigid particles are discretised using moving overset grids overlaid on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. R. Koblitz , S. Lovett , N. Nikiforakis , W. D. Henshaw

We present an immersed interface method for the vorticity-velocity form of the 2D Navier Stokes equations that directly addresses challenges posed by multiply connected domains, nonconvex obstacles, and the calculation of force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 James Gabbard , Thomas Gillis , Philippe Chatelain , Wim M. van Rees

We present an novel algorithm for tracking massless solid particles in a divergence-free velocity field that is only available at discrete points in space and time such as those arising from a direct numerical simulation of Navier-Stokes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Benjamin K Tapley

A numerical method is developed for solving a system of partial differential equations modeling the flow of a nematic liquid crystal fluid with stretching effect, which takes into account the geometrical shape of its molecules. This system…

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In this paper, two mesh-free CFD solvers for pore-scale fluid flow through porous media are considered, namely the Lattice Boltzmann Method with the two relaxation time collision term and the direct Navier-Stokes solver under the artificial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-12 Dawid Strzelczyk , Miha Rot , Gregor Kosec , Maciej Matyka

Modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions are crucial to the success of aerospace engineering. This work addresses a novel hybrid algorithm that models the close coupling between compressible flows and deformable materials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mingshuo Han , Shiwei Hu , Tianbai Xiao , Yonghao Zhang

The rate of melting of a solid and the rate of deformation of the resulting melt due to capillary forces are comparable in additive manufacturing applications. This dynamic structural change of a melting solid is extremely challenging to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Michael Blank , Prapanch Nair , Thorsten Pöschel

We present the method of Direct van der Waals simulation (DVS) to study computationally flows with liquid-vapor phase transformations. Our approach is based on a novel discretization of the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations, that couple flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-06 Tianyi Hu , Hao Wang , Hector Gomez

We present in this Letter a free-energy approach to the dynamics of a fluid near a nanostructured surface. The model accounts both for the static phase equilibrium in the vicinity of the surface (wetting angles, Cassie-Wenzel transition)…

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We model the flow behaviour of dense melts of flexible and semiflexible ring polymers in the presence of walls using a hybrid multiscale approach. Specifically, we perform molecular dynamics simulations and apply the Irving-Kirkwood formula…

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The paper develops a method for the numerical simulation of a free-surface flow of incompressible viscous fluid around a streamlined body. The body is a rigid stationary construction partially submerged in the fluid. The application we are…

The presented research paper illustrates the development of a new methodology to solve 2-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stoke equations, which Pukhnachev proposed through introducing unknown functions in the stream and pressure functions of fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-07 Mohit Kumar Srivastava , Love Trivedi , Rakshit Kaushik

In this paper, we introduce a mathematical model to describe the nanoparticles transport carried by a two-phase flow in a porous medium including gravity, capillary forces and Brownian diffusion. Nonlinear iterative IMPES scheme is used to…

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Free surface flow problems including mixing processes in dam break flows and wave breaking phenomena are characterized by large deformation of the free surface. As such, they cannot be easily investigated by analytical and numerical mesh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-22 Kalale Chola

Multiphase flow in porous media occurs in several disciplines including petroleum reservoir engineering, petroleum systems' analysis, and CO$_2$ sequestration. While simulations often use a fully implicit discretization to increase the time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-12 Daniel A. Cogswell , Michael L. Szulczewski

We present a numerical method to deal efficiently with large numbers of particles in incompressible fluids. The interactions between particles and fluid are taken into account by a physically motivated ansatz based on locally defined drag…

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