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In this work we present a mass conservative numerical scheme for two-phase flow in porous media. The model for flow consists on two fully coupled, non-linear equations: a degenerate parabolic equation and an elliptic equation. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Florin Adrian Radu , Kundan Kumar , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Iuliu Sorin Pop

A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split Volume-of-Fluid method generalized for a non-divergence-free liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jordi Poblador-Ibanez , William A. Sirignano

Realistic two-phase flow problems of interest often involve high $Re$ flows with high density ratios. Accurate and robust simulation of such problems requires special treatments. In this work, we present a consistent, energy-conserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-24 Shahab Mirjalili , Ali Mani

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Sagar Pal , Daniel Fuster , Stéphane Zaleski

A diffusion interface two-phase magnetohydrodynamic model has been used for matched densities in our previous work [1,2], which may limit the applications of the model. In this work, we derive a thermodynamically consistent diffuse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Ke Zhang

We present a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to approximate two-phase Stokes flow. The new formulation is based on the classical Stokes equation in the bulk and a novel choice of interface conditions with additional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Harald Garcke , Dennis Trautwein , Ganghui Zhang

Accurate numerical modeling of compressible flows, particularly in the turbulent regime, requires a method that is non-dissipative and stable at high Reynolds ($Re$) numbers. For a compressible flow, it is known that discrete conservation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-23 Suhas S. Jain , Parviz Moin

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 T. Arrufat , M. Crialesi-Esposito , D. Fuster , Y. Ling , L. Malan , S. Pal , R. Scardovelli , G. Tryggvason , S. Zaleski

We present a novel combination of numerical techniques to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and robustness of multi-component compressible flow simulations. At the core of our approach is an Entropy-Stable formulation that preserves kinetic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Vahid Badrkhani , T. Jeremy P. Karpowsk , Christian Hasse

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow with insoluble surfactant. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations for the two-phase flow in the bulk, which are coupled to the transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Central finite difference schemes have long been avoided in the context of two-phase flows for the advection of the phase indicator function due to numerical overshoots and undershoots associated with their dispersion errors. We will show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-23 Shahab Mirjalili , Christopher B. Ivey , Ali Mani

The Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using stochastic fluxes. This paper examines explicit Eulerian discretizations of the full LLNS equations. Several CFD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Sarah A. Williams

Development of a two-phase incompressible solver for magnetic flows in the magnetostatic case is presented. The proposed numerical toolkit couples the Navier-Stokes equations of hydrodynamics with Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-04 Paria Makaremi-Esfarjani , Andrew J. Higgins , Alireza Najafi-Yazdi

In this article we present a novel staggered semi-implicit hybrid finite-volume/finite-element (FV/FE) method for the resolution of weakly compressible flows in two and three space dimensions. The pressure-based methodology introduced in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 A. Bermúdez , S. Busto , M. Dumbser , J. L. Ferrín , L. Saavedra , M. E. Vázquez-Cendón

We study a colocated cell centered finite volume method for the approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed on a 2D or 3D finite domain. The discrete unknowns are the components of the velocity and the pressures, all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Robert Eymard , Raphaele Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 L. C. Malan , A. G. Malan , S. Zaleski , P. G. Rousseau

We introduce a residual-based stabilized formulation for incompressible Navier-Stokes flow that maintains discrete (and, for divergence-conforming methods, strong) mass conservation for inf-sup stable spaces with $H^1$-conforming pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-07 John A. Evans , David Kamensky , Yuri Bazilevs

In this paper we present a finite element method (FEM) for two-phase incompressible flows with moving contact lines. We use a sharp interface Navier-Stokes model for the bulk phase fluid dynamics. Surface tension forces, including Marangoni…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-13 A. Reusken , X. Xu , L. Zhang

In this paper, a fractional step lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to model two-phase flows with large density differences by solving Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.In order to maintain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Chunhua Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Yibao Li