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In this paper, we propose a simple and accurate numerical method for capturing moving interfaces on fixed Eulerian grids by coupling the Tangent of Hyperbola Interface Capturing (THINC) method and Level Set (LS) method. The innovative and…

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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…

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Recently, machine learning has been used to substitute parts of conventional computational fluid dynamics, e.g. the cell-face reconstruction in finite-volume solvers or the curvature computation in the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus Adams

The moment-of-fluid method (MOF) is an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). In MOF reconstruction, the optimized normal vector is determined from the reference centroid and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Zhouteng Ye , Mark Sussman , Xizeng Zhao

Available algorithms for the initialization of volume fractions typically utilize exact functions to model fluid interfaces, or they rely on computationally costly intersections between volume meshes. Here, a new algorithm is proposed that…

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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods are widely used computational tools for fluid and kinetic plasma modeling. While both the fluid and kinetic PIC approaches have been successfully used to target either kinetic or fluid simulations, little was…

Recently, data-driven simulators based on graph neural networks have gained attention in modeling physical systems on unstructured meshes. However, they struggle with long-range dependencies in fluid flows, particularly in refined mesh…

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Estimation of interface curvature in surface-tension dominated flows is a remaining challenge in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods. Data-driven methods are recently emerging as a promising alternative in this domain. They outperform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-26 Asim Önder , Philip Li-Fan Liu

The moment-of-fluid method (MOF) is known as an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). In this study, several directional splitting advection algorithms are extended from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Zhoueng Ye

Traditional fluid flow predictions require large computational resources. Despite recent progress in parallel and GPU computing, the ability to run fluid flow predictions in real-time is often infeasible. Recently developed machine learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-08 Y. van Halder , B. Sanderse , B. Koren

Multiphase, compressible and viscous flows are of crucial importance in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. Despite the large effort paid in the last decades to develop accurate and efficient numerical techniques to address…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-26 Federico Dalla Barba , Nicolò Scapin , Marco E. Rosti , Francesco Picano , Luca Brandt

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…

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Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a method of im-aging and analysing fields of flows. The PIV tech-niques compute and display all the motion vectors of the field in a resulting image. Speeds more than thou-sand vectors per second can be…

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Validity of fluid models breaks down for non-thermal or weakly collisional plasmas which often occur e.g. in the solar wind. In these regimes one has to resort to modelling through the first-principle Vlasov-Maxwell system, but its…

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We present a novel interface-capturing scheme, THINC-scaling, to unify the VOF (volume of fluid) and the level set methods, which have been developed as two different approaches widely used in various applications. The key to success is to…

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Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

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Geometrical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) methods mainly support structured meshes, and only a small number of contributions in the scientific literature report results with unstructured meshes and three spatial dimensions. Unstructured meshes are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tomislav Maric , Douglas B. Kothe , Dieter Bothe

Physics-Informed Neural Networks have become a powerful mesh-free method for solving partial differential equations, but their performance is often limited by spectral bias. Specifically, in standard MLPs used in PINNs, the global parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jianfeng Li , Feng Wang , Ke Tang

We present a novel interface-capturing scheme, THINC-scaling, to unify the VOF (volume of fluid) and the level set methods, which have been developed as two completely different approaches widely used in various applications. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Ronit Kumar , Lidong Cheng , Bin Xie , Feng Xiao

We report a new approach to flow field tomography that uses the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion equations to regularize reconstructions. Tomography is increasingly employed to infer 2D or 3D fluid flow and combustion structures from a…

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