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In this paper we propose a high-order accurate scheme for image segmentation based on the level-set method. In this approach, the curve evolution is described as the 0-level set of a representation function but we modify the velocity that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Maurizio Falcone , Giulio Paolucci , Silvia Tozza

The gVOF package includes a complete and self-contained set of routines for volume of fluid initialization, interface reconstruction and fluid advection, which are used to implement several accurate and efficient geometric volume of fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Joaquín López , Julio Hernández

This paper introduces a Particle Flow Map Level Set (PFM-LS) method for high-fidelity interface tracking. We store level-set values, gradients, and Hessians on particles concentrated in a narrow band around the interface, advecting them via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Jinjin He , Taiyuan Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Junwei Zhou , Duowen Chen , Bo Zhu

This paper presents a novel and straightforward compact reconstruction procedure for the high-order finite volume method on unstructured grids. In this procedure, we constructed a linear approximation relationship between the mean values…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Ling Wen , Yan-Tao Yang , Qing-Dong Cai

A straightforward and computationally efficient Consecutive Cubic Spline (CCS) iterative algorithm is proposed for positioning the planar interface of the unstructured geometrical Volume-of-Fluid method in arbitrarily-shaped cells. The CCS…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Tomislav Maric

Over the past decades, the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method has been the method of choice for simulating atomization processes, owing to its unique ability to discretely conserve mass. Current state-of-the-art VOF methods, however, rely on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Fabien Evrard , Robert Chiodi , Berend van Wachem , Olivier Desjardins

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…

Unstructured meshes are among the most versatile approaches for capturing non-canonical geometries in fluid dynamics simulations. Despite this, most high-fidelity first-principles phase-change models are developed and applied on structured…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Jan Kren , Bojan Ničeno , Yohei Sato

We present in this work a new reconstruction scheme, so-called MUSCL-THINC-BVD scheme, to solve the five-equation model for interfacial two phase flows. This scheme employs the traditional shock capturing MUSCL (Monotone Upstream-centered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Xi Deng , Satoshi Inaba , Bin Xie , Keh-Ming Shyue , Feng Xiao

We develop a framework for constructing mixed multiscale finite volume methods for elliptic equations with multiple scales arising from flows in porous media. Some of the methods developed using the framework are already known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lijian Jiang , Ilya D. Mishev

Image-based geometric modeling and novel view synthesis based on sparse, large-baseline samplings are challenging but important tasks for emerging multimedia applications such as virtual reality and immersive telepresence. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Wenpeng Xing , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang , Qiang Wang

A variational volume-of-fluid (VVOF) methodology is devised for evolving interfaces under curvature-dependent speed. The interface is reconstructed geometrically using the analytic relations of Scardovelli and Zaleski [1] and the advection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Ali Fakhreddine , Karim Alamé , Krishnan Mahesh

An advanced Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is presented that enables performant three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the interaction of two immiscible fluids in a gaseous environment with large topology changes, e.g.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-08 Johanna Potyka , Kathrin Schulte

Existing artificial compression based reinitialization scheme for conservative level set method has a few drawbacks, like distortion of fluid-fluid interface, unphysical patch formation away from the interface and lack of mass conservation.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 S. Parameswaran , J. C. Mandal

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

In this work, we propose a numerical approach for simulations of large deformations of interfaces in a level set framework. To obtain a fast and viable numerical solution in both time and space, temporal discretization is based on the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Aymen Laadhari , Ahmad Deeb

We present a numerical method for interface-resolved simulations of evaporating two-fluid flows based on the volume-of-fluid (VoF) method. The method has been implemented in an efficient FFT-based two-fluid Navier-Stokes solver, using an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Nicolò Scapin , Pedro Costa , Luca Brandt

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced significantly in visual representation learning and recognition. However, they face notable challenges in performance and computational efficiency when dealing with real-world, multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

The present study proposes a new efficient and robust algorithm for multi-objectives topology optimization of heat transfer surfaces to achieve heat transfer enhancement with a less pressure drop penalty based on a continuous adjoint…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-14 Di Chen , Prashant Kumar , Yukinori Kametani , Yosuke Hasegawa

The scale-space method is a well-established framework that constructs a hierarchical representation of an input signal and facilitates coarse-to-fine visual reasoning. Considering the terrain elevation function as the input signal, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Haoan Feng , Yunting Song , Leila De Floriani