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In this work we formulate and test a new procedure, the Multiscale Perturbation Method for Two-Phase Flows (MPM-2P), for the fast, accurate and naturally parallelizable numerical solution of two-phase, incompressible, immiscible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Franciane F. Rocha , Het Mankad , Fabricio S. Sousa , Felipe Pereira

An extended volume of fluid method is developed for two-phase direct numerical simulations of systems with one viscoelastic and one Newtonian phase. A complete set of governing equations is derived by conditional volume-averaging of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Günter Brenn , Holger Marschall , Dieter Bothe

The numerical approximation of non-isothermal liquid-vapor flow within the compressible regime is a difficult task because complex physical effects at the phase interfaces can govern the global flow behavior. We present a sharp interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-12 Stefan Fechter , Claus-Dieter Munz , Christian Rohde , Christoph Zeiler

In this study, the hyperbolic method is adopted to explore the flow field states of incompressible flow in a four-sided lid-driven square cavity. In particular, we focus on the flow bifurcation obtained at the critical Reynolds number $R_e…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-14 Hubert Baty

A low-dissipation numerical method for compressible gas-liquid two-phase flow with phase change on unstructured grids is proposed. The governing equations adopt the six-equation model. The non-conservative terms included in the volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-13 Hiro Wakimura , Takayuki Aoki , Feng Xiao

Blood flow in arterial systems can be described by the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations within a time-dependent spatial domain that accounts for the elasticity of the arterial walls. In this article blood is treated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser , Vincenzo Casulli

The present paper is devoted to the mixing and heat transfer features of mutually immiscible liquids in the two-fluid turbulent heterogeneous jet flow. Many natural and technical processes deal with the turbulent jets of mutually immiscible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-16 Ivan V Kazachkov

Developing high-order numerical schemes for two-phase flow in porous media that preserve key physical properties remains a significant challenge in numerical analysis. In this article, we propose a general framework to construct fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Xiaoli Li , Cheng Wang , Yujing Yan , Nan Zheng

MFC is an open-source tool for solving multi-component, multi-phase, and bubbly compressible flows. It is capable of efficiently solving a wide range of flows, including droplet atomization, shock-bubble interaction, and gas bubble…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Spencer H. Bryngelson , Kevin Schmidmayer , Vedran Coralic , Jomela C. Meng , Kazuki Maeda , Tim Colonius

This report summarises the results for the numerical simulation of thermocapillary convection in a two-fluid system with a deformable interface. An explicit technique with 3rd order Runge-Kutta method in time, 2nd order ENO for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-08 Swagat Kumar Nayak

Analytical/quasi-analytical solutions are proposed for a steady, compressible, two-phase flow in mechanical equilibrium in a rectilinear duct subjected to heating followed by cooling. The flow is driven by the pressure ratio between a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-17 Solène Schropff , Fabien Petitpas , Eric Daniel

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

Accurate modeling of moving boundaries and interfaces is a difficulty present in many situations of computational mechanics. We use the eXtreme Mesh deformation approach (X-Mesh) to simulate the interaction between two immiscible flows…

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We propose a seamless multiscale method which approximates the macroscopic behavior of the passive advection-diffusion equations with steady incompressible velocity fields with multi-spatial scales. The method uses decompositions of the…

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New time integration methods are proposed for simulating incompressible multiphase flow in pipelines described by the one-dimensional two-fluid model. The methodology is based on 'half-explicit' Runge-Kutta methods, being explicit for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Benjamin Sanderse , Arthur E. P. Veldman

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

In this paper, we develop a phase-field model for binary incompressible (quasi-incompressible) fluid with thermocapillary effects, which allows for the different properties (densities, viscosities and heat conductivities) of each component…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin

Numerical simulation of multi-component flow systems characterized by the simultaneous presence of pressure-velocity coupling and pressure-density coupling dominated regions remains a significant challenge in computational fluid dynamics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-17 Xi Deng , Bin Xie , Omar K. Matar , Pierre Boivin

Multi-component fluid flow simulations in multi-scale porous structures often involve regions that are under-resolved at practical computational resolutions. Accurately capturing the contributions from these unresolved regions is critical.…