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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

We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

Compressible interfacial multiphase flows (CIMF) are essential to different applications, such as liquid fuel injection in supersonic propulsion systems. Since high-level details in CIMF are often difficult to measure in experiments,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-16 Bo Zhang , Bradley Boyd , Yue Ling

The complexity of binary droplet collisions increases for the collision of immiscible liquids with the occurrence of triple lines and thin encapsulating films. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is extended with an efficient interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Johanna Potyka , Kathrin Schulte

We present a hybrid Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) Phase-Field method for general soluble surfactant-laden interfacial flows. The scheme retains the VoF method for interface tracking and momentum solution, while a diffused Phase-Field serves as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ilies Haouche , Benjamin Reichert , Michaël Baudoin , Palas Kumar Farsoiya

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…

A novel numerical technique designed for interface flow simulations using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method on arbitrary unstructured meshes has been introduced. The method is called SimPLIC, which seamlessly integrates Piecewise Linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-09 Dezhi Dai , Haomin Yuan , Albert Y. Tong , Adrian Tentner

Based on the two-phase macroscopic governing equations in the phase field model, the governing equations and analytical solutions for the steady-state layered Poiseuille flows in the diffuse interface (DI) model are derived and analyzed.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-29 Jun Lai , Yiming Qi , Lian-Ping Wang

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Suhas S. Jain , Michael C. Adler , Jacob R. West , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin , Sanjiva K. Lele

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-05 Sucharitha Rajendran , Raj M Manglik , Milind A Jog

In this paper, we address the challenge of accurately calculating droplet/bubble properties (e.g., volume, number) in diffuse-interface two-phase flow simulations. Currently, flood-fill algorithms can truncate a significant portion of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Pranav J. Nathan , Suhas S. Jain

The paper is concerned with an adjoint complement to the Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for immiscible two-phase flows, e.g. air and water, which is widely used in marine engineering due to its computational efficiency. The particular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Niklas Kühl , Jörn Kröger , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

This work develops advanced numerical methods for free-surface simulations of polymer mixing processes, integrating a Volume of Fluid (VOF) interface-capturing approach with a non-conforming Immersed Boundary (IB) method to model two-phase…

Accurate numerical modeling of surface tension has been a challenging aspect of multiphase flow simulations. The integral formulation for modeling surface tension forces is known to be consistent and conservative, and to be a natural choice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-07 Mandeep Saini , Vatsal Sanjay , Youssef Saade , Detlef Lohse , Stephane Popinet

The paper is devoted to the simulation of maritime two-phase flows of air and water. Emphasis is put on an extension of the classical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method by a diffusive contribution derived from a Cahn-Hilliard (CH) model and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Niklas Kühl , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

In this work, we propose a novel phase-field model for the simulation of two-phase flows that is accurate, conservative, bounded, and robust. The proposed model conserves the mass of each of the phases, and results in bounded transport of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Suhas S. Jain

A novel interface reconstruction strategy for volume of fluid (VOF) methods is introduced that represents the liquid-gas interface as two planes that co-exist within a single computational cell. In comparison to the piecewise linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-19 Austin Han , Robert Chiodi , Olivier Desjardins

A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split Volume-of-Fluid method generalized for a non-divergence-free liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jordi Poblador-Ibanez , William A. Sirignano

Crashing ocean waves, cappuccino froths and microfluidic bubble crystals are examples of foamy flows. Foamy flows are critical in numerous natural and industrial processes and remain notoriously difficult to compute as they involve coupled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos