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We investigate the phase equilibrium problem for multicomponent mixtures under specified internal energy (U), volume (V), and mole numbers (N1,N2, . . . ,Nn), commonly known as the UVN-flash problem. While conventional phase equilibrium…
Phase diagrams are integral to the application and interpretation of materials thermodynamics, and none is more ubiquitous than the common Temperature-Pressure diagram of water and its many icy phases. Inspired by recent advances in…
Phase equilibrium calculations are an essential part of numerical simulations of multi-component multi-phase flow in porous media, accounting for the largest share of the computational time. In this work, we introduce a GPUenabled, fast,…
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…
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…
An efficient hybrid numerical method for multiple scattering calculations is proposed. We use the well established doubling--adding method to find the reflection function of the lowermost homogeneous slab comprising the atmosphere of our…
We consider the depth-integrated non-hydrostatic system derived by Yamazaki et al. An efficient formally second-order well-balanced hybrid finite volume finite difference numerical scheme is proposed. The scheme consists of a two-step…
This paper proposes a new non-oscillatory {\em energy-splitting} conservative algorithm for computing multi-fluid flows in the Eulerian framework. In comparison with existing multi-fluid algorithms in literatures, it is shown that the mass…
In this paper, for the first time we propose two linear, decoupled, energy-stable numerical schemes for multi-component two-phase compressible flow with a realistic equation of state (e.g. Peng-Robinson equation of state). The methods are…
Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In this approach, rather than discretizing the partial…
In this paper, we consider dynamic optimization of thermal and isothermal oil recovery processes which involve multicomponent three-phase flow in porous media. We present thermodynamically rigorous models of these processes based on 1)…
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.,…
A second-order-accurate finite volume method, hybridized by blending an extended double-flux algorithm and a traditionally conservative scheme, is developed. In this scheme, hybrid convective fluxes as well as hybrid interpolation…
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…
We present a novel high order semi-implicit hybrid finite volume/virtual element numerical scheme for the solution of compressible flows on Voronoi tessellations. The method relies on the flux splitting of the compressible Navier-Stokes…
To simulate the dynamics of fluid with polydisperse particles on macroscale level, one has to solve hydrodynamic equations with several relaxation terms, representing momentum transfer from fluid to particles and vice versa. For small…
We have obtained an exact expression for the phase-space volume corresponding to a microcanonical ensemble of systems under center of mass, total linear and angular momenta conservation constraints, and arbitrary constraints on the…
Compositional simulation is challenging, because of highly nonlinear couplings between multi-component flow in porous media with thermodynamic phase behavior. The coupled nonlinear system is commonly solved by the fully-implicit scheme.…
This article establishes a first-principles statistical field theory of fully developed isotropic turbulence. Applying an exact Helmholtz decomposition to the local angular momentum field ($\Lvec = \rvec \times \uvec$) reveals a segregation…
We present a new high-order finite volume reconstruction method for hyperbolic conservation laws. The method is based on a piecewise cubic polynomial which provides its solutions a fifth-order accuracy in space. The spatially reconstructed…