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The accurate reconstruction of immiscible fluid-fluid interfaces from the volume fraction field is a critical component of geometric Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods. A common strategy is the Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Andrew Cahaly , Fabien Evrard , Olivier Desjardins

Volume of fluid (VOF) methods are extensively used to track fluid interfaces in numerical simulations, and many VOF algorithms require that the interface be reconstructed geometrically. For this purpose, the Piecewise Linear Interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Mohammadmehdi Ataei , Markus Bussmann , Vahid Shaayegan , Franco Costa , Sejin Han , Chul B. Park

The plane-cube intersection problem has been around in literature since 1984 and iterative solutions to it have been used as part of piecewise linear interface construction (PLIC) in computational fluid dynamics simulation codes ever since.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Moritz Lehmann , Stephan Gekle

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the sequential positioning, also called nested dissection, of two planes in an arbitrary polyhedron. Two planar interfaces are positioned such that the first plane truncates a given volume from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Johannes Kromer , Johanna Potyka , Kathrin Schulte , Dieter Bothe

A new PLIC (piecewise linear interface calculation)-type VOF (volume of fluid) method, called APPLIC (approximated PLIC) method, is presented. Although the PLIC method is one of the most accurate VOF methods, the three-dimensional algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Akio Kawano

The accurate modeling of topology changes remains a significant challenge in geometric Volume of Fluid (VOF) simulations. When using traditional single-plane reconstruction (PLIC), fluid structures smaller than the mesh size cannot be…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Andrew Cahaly , Valentin Wasquel , Zonghao Zou , Olivier Desjardins , Fabien Evrard

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

A novel numerical technique designed for interface flow simulations using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method on arbitrary unstructured meshes has been introduced. The method is called SimPLIC, which seamlessly integrates Piecewise Linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-09 Dezhi Dai , Haomin Yuan , Albert Y. Tong , Adrian Tentner

A novel interface reconstruction strategy for volume of fluid (VOF) methods is introduced that represents the liquid-gas interface as two planes that co-exist within a single computational cell. In comparison to the piecewise linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-19 Austin Han , Robert Chiodi , Olivier Desjardins

We introduce a fast and robust algorithm for finding a plane $\Gamma$ with given normal $\vec{n}_\Gamma$, which truncates an arbitrary polyhedron $\mathcal{P}$ such that the remaining sub-polyhedron admits a given volume…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Johannes Kromer , Dieter Bothe

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

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…

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

Robust local feature representations are essential for spatial intelligence tasks such as robot navigation and augmented reality. Establishing reliable correspondences requires descriptors that provide both high discriminative power and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Yao Su

We extend the volume of fluid method for the computation of two-phase flow to a higher order accurate method in two dimensions. The interface reconstruction by the PLIC method is thereby replaced by a periodic interface reconstruction. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-03-22 Joris Verschaeve

High-intensity laser plasma interactions create complex computational problems because they involve both fluid and kinetic regimes, which need models that maintain physical precision while keeping computational speed. The research…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

Microfluidic devices are utilized to control and direct flow behavior in a wide variety of applications, particularly in medical diagnostics. A particularly popular form of microfluidics -- called inertial microfluidic flow sculpting --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Xian Yeow Lee , Aditya Balu , Daniel Stoecklein , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian , Soumik Sarkar

We demonstrate transfer learning capabilities in a machine-learned algorithm trained for particle-flow reconstruction in high energy particle colliders. This paper presents a cross-detector fine-tuning study, where we initially pretrain the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-26 Farouk Mokhtar , Joosep Pata , Dolores Garcia , Eric Wulff , Mengke Zhang , Michael Kagan , Javier Duarte

We describe a new electrostatic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code in curvilinear geometry called Curvilinear PIC (CPIC). The code models the microscopic (kinetic) evolution of a plasma with the PIC method, coupled with an adaptive computational…

For capillary driven flow the interface curvature is essential in the modelling of surface tension via the imposition of the Young--Laplace jump condition. We show that traditional geometric volume of fluid (VOF) methods, that are based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman
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