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We extend the unstructured LEvel set / froNT tracking (LENT) method for handling two-phase flows with strongly different densities (high-density ratios) by providing the theoretical basis for the numerical consistency between the mass and…
We adapt and extend a formulation for soluble surfactant transport in multiphase flows recently presented by Muradoglu & Tryggvason (JCP 274 (2014) 737-757) to the context of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (Shin et al. IJNMF 60…
A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…
The capability to simulate a hydraulic fracturing process is an essential tool that can be used to optimize treatment design and increase the efficiency of field operations. In most practical cases, hydraulic fractures propagate in a…
We introduce and analyze a lower envelope method (LEM) for the tracking of interfaces motion in multiphase problems. The main idea of the method is to define the phases as the regions where the lower envelope of a set of functions coincides…
A new approach is developed for computational modelling of microstructure evolution problems. The approach combines the phase-field method with the recently-developed laminated element technique (LET) which is a simple and efficient method…
Separated flow transition is a very popular phenomenon in gas turbines, especially low-pressure turbines (LPT). Low-fidelity simulations are often used for gas turbine design. However, they are unable to predict separated flow transition…
Direct numerical simulations of interfacial flows with surfactant-induced complexities involving surface viscous stresses are performed within the framework of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (LCRM); this hybrid…
As one of the most popular interface-capturing methods, the level-set method is inherently non-conservative, and its evolution usually leads to unphysical mass gain/loss. In this paper, a novel conservative level set method is developed for…
A hybrid sharp-interface immersed-boundary/front-tracking (IB/FT) method is developed for interface-resolved simulation of evaporating droplets in incompressible multiphase flows. A one-field formulation is used to solve the flow, species…
Fluid flow applications can involve a number of coupled problems. One is the simulation of free-surface flows, which require the solution of a free-boundary problem. Within this problem, the governing equations of fluid flow are coupled…
We present a robust numerical method for solving incompressible, immiscible two-phase flows. The method extends the monolithic phase conservative level set method with embedded redistancing by Quezada de Luna et al. [38] and a semi-implicit…
Image-based computational fluid dynamics have long played an important role in leveraging knowledge and understanding of several physical phenomena. In particular, probabilistic computational methods have opened the way to modelling the…
This paper presents a solver using the Level-Set method for incompressible two phase flows with surface tension. A one fluid approach is adopted where both phases share the same velocity and pressure field. The Level Set method has been…
Understanding the dynamics of phase boundaries in fluids requires quantitative knowledge about the microscale processes at the interface. We consider the sharp-interface motion of compressible two-component flow, and propose a heterogeneous…
A new framework for two-fluids flow using a Finite Element/Level Set method is presented and verified through the simulation of the rising of a bubble in a viscous fluid. This model is then enriched to deal with vesicles (which mimic red…
Many interfacial phenomena in physical and biological systems are dominated by high order geometric quantities such as curvature. Here a semi-implicit method is combined with a level set jet scheme to handle stiff nonlinear advection…
We develop and fully characterize a meshfree Lagrangian (particle) model for continuum-based numerical modeling of dry and submerged granular flows. The multiphase system of the granular material and the ambient fluid is treated as a…
Complex mechanic systems simulation is important in many real-world applications. The de-facto numeric solver using Finite Element Method (FEM) suffers from computationally intensive overhead. Though with many progress on the reduction of…
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…