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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…
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…
The paper is concerned with an adjoint complement to the Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for immiscible two-phase flows, e.g. air and water, which is widely used in marine engineering due to its computational efficiency. The particular…
The moment-of-fluid (MOF) method is an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). By minimizing the least square error of the centroid of the cutting polyhedron, the MOF method…
In this paper, four distinct approaches to Volume of Fluid (VOF) computational method are compared. Two of the methods are the 'simplified' VOF formulations, in that they do not require geometrical interface reconstruction. The assessment…
We present a machine-learning based Volume Of Fluid method to simulate multi-material flows on three-dimensional domains. One of the novelties of the method is that the flux fraction is computed by evaluating a previously trained neural…
The gVOF package includes a complete and self-contained set of routines for volume of fluid initialization, interface reconstruction and fluid advection, which are used to implement several accurate and efficient geometric volume of fluid…
Volume of fluid(VOF) method is a sharp interface method employed for simulations of two phase flows. Interface in VOF is usually represented using piecewise linear line segments in each computational grid based on the volume fraction field.…
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…
In spite of considerable progress, computing curvature in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods continues to be a challenge. The goal is to develop a function or a subroutine that returns the curvature in computational cells containing an interface…
The numerical simulation of wetting and dewetting of geometrically complex surfaces benefits from unstructured numerical methods because they discretize the domain with second-order accuracy. A recently developed unstructured geometric…
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…
A wide variety of interface capturing methods have been introduced for simulating two-phase flows throughout the years. However, there is a noticeable dearth of literature focusing on objective comparisons between these methods, especially…
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…
We present an advection-pressure flux-vector splitting method for the one and two- dimensional shallow water equations following the approach first proposed by Toro and V\'azquez for the compressible Euler equations. The resulting…
We propose a novel method for the direct numerical simulation of interfacial flows involving large density contrasts, using a Volume-of-Fluid method. We employ the conservative formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for…
We present a novel numerical method to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for two-phase flows with phase change, using a one-fluid approach. Separate phases are tracked using a geometric Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method with…
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.…
A comprehensive scheme for the spatial discretisation of continuity equation, momentum advection and normal and shear stresses at the fluid interfaces is presented for numerically simulating the incompressible two phase flows based on the…
The computation of flows with large density contrasts is notoriously difficult. To alleviate the difficulty we consider a discretization of the Navier-Stokes equation that advects mass and momentum in a consistent manner. Incompressible…