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We present an interface and geometry preserving (IGP) method for the modeling of fully Eulerian fluid-structure interaction via phase-field formulation. While the hyperbolic tangent interface profile is preserved by the time-dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev Jaiman

In this work, we develop a cutting method for solving problems with moving and growing interfaces in 3D. This new method is able to resolve large displacement or deformation of immersed objects by combining the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-03 Ulrich Langer , Huidong Yang

The interfacial diffusion associated with finite volume method (FVM) discretizations of multiphase flows creates the need for an interface sharpening mechanism. Such solutions for structured quadrilateral grids are well documented, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. Marziale , J. Sun , D. Salac , J. Chen

This paper presents a method for modelling interfacial mass transfer in Interface Capturing simulations of two-phase flow with phase change. The model enables mechanistic prediction of the local rate of phase change at the vapour-liquid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 G. Giustini , R. I. Issa , M. J. Bluck

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.…

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Joaquín López , Julio Hernández

Accurate numerical modeling of surface tension has been a challenging aspect of multiphase flow simulations. The integral formulation for modeling surface tension forces is known to be consistent and conservative, and to be a natural choice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-07 Mandeep Saini , Vatsal Sanjay , Youssef Saade , Detlef Lohse , Stephane Popinet

Unstructured meshes are among the most versatile approaches for capturing non-canonical geometries in fluid dynamics simulations. Despite this, most high-fidelity first-principles phase-change models are developed and applied on structured…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Jan Kren , Bojan Ničeno , Yohei Sato

We developed a sharp interface level-set approach for two-phase immiscible flow with moving contact lines. The Cox-Voinov model is used to describe the moving contact line. A piecewise linear interface method is used to construct the signed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-26 Moataz O. Abu-Al-Saud , Cyprien Soulaine , Amir Riaz , Hamdi A. Tchelepi

Fluid-structure systems occur in a range of scientific and engineering applications. The immersed boundary(IB) method is a widely recognized and effective modeling paradigm for simulating fluid-structure interaction(FSI) in such systems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Brent A. Craven , Boyce E. Griffith

Estimation of interface curvature in surface-tension dominated flows is a remaining challenge in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods. Data-driven methods are recently emerging as a promising alternative in this domain. They outperform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-26 Asim Önder , Philip Li-Fan Liu

This work outlines a new three-dimensional diffuse interface finite volume method for the simulation of multiple solid and fluid components featuring large deformations, sliding and void opening. This is achieved by extending an existing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

This paper proposes a comparison of four popular interface capturing methods : the volume of fluid (VOF), the standard level set (SLS), the accurate conservative level set (ACLS) and the coupled level set and volume of fluid (CLSVOF). All…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Victor Boniou , Thomas Schmitt , Aymeric Vié

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Moreno Pintore , Bruno Després

In this paper we propose an efficient second order well balanced finite volume method for modeling complex free surface flows at the aid of a simple diffuse interface method. The employed physical model is a two-phase model derived from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Elena Gaburro , Manuel J. Castro , Michael Dumbser

Modern theories of the hydrophobic effect highlight its dependence on length scale, emphasizing in particular the importance of interfaces that emerge in the vicinity of sizable hydrophobes. We recently showed that a faithful treatment of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-06 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan , Grant M Rotskoff , Alexander Hudson , Phillip Geissler

This work concerns the simulation of compressible multi-material fluid flows and follows the method FVCF-NIP described in the former paper Braeunig et al (Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids, 2009). This Cell-centered Finite Volume method is totally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Raphaël Loubère , Jean-Philippe Braeunig , Jean-Michel Ghidaglia

Evidence for capillary waves at a liquid/vapor interface are presented from extensive molecular dynamics simulations of a system containing up to 1.24 million Lennard-Jones particles. Careful measurements show that the total interfacial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott W. Sides , Gary S. Grest , Martin-D. Lacasse

In recent years, interface quasi-Newton methods have gained growing attention in the fluid-structure interaction community by significantly improving partitioned solution schemes: They not only help to control the inherent added-mass…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Thomas Spenke , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

The stability of most surface-tension-driven interfacial flow simulations is governed by the capillary time-step constraint. This concerns particularly small-scale flows and, more generally, highly-resolved liquid-gas simulations with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-24 Romain Janodet , Berend van Wachem , Fabian Denner