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Numerical modeling of the migration of three-phase immiscible fluid flow in variably saturated zones is challenging due to the different behavior of the system between unsaturated and saturated zones. This behavior results in the use of…

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In this article, we analyze a two-level finite element method for the equations of motion arising in the flow of 2D Oldroyd model with non-smooth initial data. It involves solving the non-linear problem on a coarse grid of mesh-size $H$ and…

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Aiming for the simulation of colloidal droplets in microfluidic devices, we present here a numerical method for two-fluid systems subject to surface tension and depletion forces among the suspended droplets. The algorithm is based on an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-15 Zhouyang Ge , Jean-Christophe Loiseau , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

In this paper, we consider a non-local (in time) two-phase flow model. The non-locality is introduced through the wettability alteration induced dynamic capillary pressure function. We present a monotone fixed-point iterative linearization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Abay M. Kassa , Kundan Kumar , Sarah E. Gasda , Florin A. Radu

We present a discrete exterior calculus (DEC) based discretization scheme for incompressible two-phase flows. Our physically-compatible exterior calculus discretization of single phase flow is extended to simulate immiscible two-phase flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-14 Minmiao Wang , Pankaj Jagad , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney

Realistic two-phase flow problems of interest often involve high $Re$ flows with high density ratios. Accurate and robust simulation of such problems requires special treatments. In this work, we present a consistent, energy-conserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-24 Shahab Mirjalili , Ali Mani

Existing hybrid Level Set / Front Tracking methods have been developed for structured meshes and successfully used for efficient and accurate simulations of complex multiphase flows. This contribution extends the capability of hybrid Level…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Tobias Tolle , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Maric

A low-order finite element method is constructed and analysed for an incompressible non-Newtonian flow problem with power-law rheology. The method is based on a continuous piecewise linear approximation of the velocity field and piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Endre Suli

In this work we consider a new efficient IMplicit Pressure Explicit Saturation (IMPES) scheme for the simulation of incompressible and immiscible two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media with capillary pressure. Compared with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Huangxin Chen , Shuyu Sun

We perform a quantitative assessment of different strategies to compute the contribution due to surface tension in incompressible two-phase flows using a conservative level set (CLS) method. More specifically, we compare classical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Orlando , Paolo Francesco Barbante , Luca Bonaventura

In this work, we consider a general consistent and conservative phase-field model for the incompressible two-phase flows. In this model, not only the Cahn-Hilliard or Allen-Cahn equation can be adopted, but also the mass and the momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-14 Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

This paper presents a robust, adaptive numerical scheme for simulating high density ratio and high shear multiphase flows on locally refined Cartesian grids that adapt to the evolving interfaces and track regions of high vorticity. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Boyce E. Griffith , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

We present a linear, second order fully discrete numerical scheme on a staggered grid for a thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field model of binary compressible fluid flow mixtures derived from the generalized Onsager…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

We present an efficient nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating nearly incompressible flows using the Boltzmann equations. The equations are discretized with Hermite polynomials in velocity space yielding a first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 A. Karakus , N. Chalmers , J. S. Hesthaven , T. Warburton

In this paper, we propose a local model reduction approach for subsurface flow problems in stochastic and highly heterogeneous media. To guarantee the mass conservation, we consider the mixed formulation of the flow problem and aim to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Yiran Wang , Eric Chung , Shubin Fu

We present a finite element based variational interface-preserving and conservative phase-field formulation for the modeling of incompressible two-phase flows with surface tension dynamics. The preservation of the hyperbolic tangent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xiaoyu Mao , Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev Jaiman

In this paper, we present a semi-implicit numerical solver for a first order hyperbolic formulation of two-phase flow with surface tension and viscosity. The numerical method addresses several complexities presented by the PDE system in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Simone Chiocchetti , Micheal Dumbser

Geometric flux-based Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) methods are widely considered consistent in handling two-phase flows with high density ratios. However, although the conservation of mass and momentum is consistent for two-phase incompressible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jun Liu , Tobias Tolle , Davide Zuzio , Jean-Luc Estivalezes , Santiago Marquez Damian , Tomislav Maric

We present an implicit-explicit finite volume scheme for isentropic two phase flow in all Mach number regimes. The underlying model belongs to the class of symmetric hyperbolic thermodynamically compatible models. The key element of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Maria Lukacova-Medvid'ova , Gabriella Puppo , Andrea Thomann

In this paper, a two-dimensional incompressible miscible displacement model is considered, and a novel decoupled and linearized high-order finite difference scheme is developed, by utilizing the multi-time-step strategy to treat the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Xiaoying Wang , Hongxing Rui , Hongfei Fu