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In the present study, a consistent and conservative Phase-Field model is developed to study thermo-gas-liquid-solid flows with liquid-solid phase change. The proposed model is derived with the help of the consistency conditions and exactly…
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We describe our approach to atomic magnetometry based on the push-pull optical pumping technique. Cesium vapor is pumped and probed by a resonant laser beam whose circular polarization is modulated synchronously with the spin evolution…
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The liquid-gas density ratio is a key property of multiphase flow methods to model real fluid systems. Here, a chemical-potential multiphase lattice Boltzmann method is constructed to realize extremely large density ratios. The simulations…
In this work we present, for the first time, a computational fluid dynamics tool for the simulation of the metered discharge in a pressurized metered dose inhaler. The model, based on open-source software, adopts the Volume-Of-Fluid method…