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In a companion study \cite{patterson2020computing2D}, we present a numerical method for simulating 2D viscous flow through an open compliant closed channel, drive by pressure gradient. We consider the highly viscous regime, where fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sarah E Patterson , Anita T Layton

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-08 Muhammad Hassan Asghar , Mathis Fricke , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Maric

The present study is concerned with a one-dimensional problem in explosive welding that pertains to the collision of lead and steel plates. The metal plates and the surrounding air are represented as separate immiscible phases governed by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 Fedor Belolutskiy , Elena Oparina , Svetlana Fortova

The motion of a gas-liquid interface along a solid wall is influenced by the capillary forces resulting from the interface's shape and its interaction with the solid, where it forms a dynamic contact angle. Capillary models play a…

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

Scale-resolving simulations of high Reynolds number incompressible flows are often limited by the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability restriction imposed by explicit time-stepping schemes, resulting in small time step sizes and long…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-20 Henrik Wüstenberg , Alexandra Liosi , Spencer J. Sherwin , Joaquim Peiró , David Moxey

We present a novel implicit porous flow solver using SPH, which maintains fluid incompressibility and is able to model a wide range of scenarios, driven by strongly coupled solid-fluid interaction forces. Many previous SPH porous flow…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Timna Böttcher , Stefan Rhys Jeske , Lukas Westhofen , Jan Bender

The direct-forcing immersed boundary method (DF-IBM) algorithm previously developed by the authors is extended by coupling the Navier-Stokes equations with the Newton-Euler equations for rigid body dynamics within the DF-IBM framework. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 E. Farah , A. Ouahsine , P. G. Verdin , B. Kaoui

We develop a three-dimensional Eulerian framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems on a fixed Cartesian grid using the geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. The coupled problem involves incompressible flow and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-30 Soham Prajapati , Ali Fakhreddine , Krishnan Mahesh

This work demonstrates a computational framework for simulating vaporizing, liquid-gas flows. It is developed for the general vaporization problem which solves the vaporization rate based as from the local thermodynamic equilibrium of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 John Palmore , Olivier Desjardins

We propose a variant of the $\theta$-scheme for diffuse interface models for two-phase flow, together with three new linearization techniques for the surface tension. These involve either additional stabilizing force terms, or a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Sebastian Aland

Motivated by observations of saturation overshoot, this paper investigates numerical modeling of two-phase flow incorporating dynamic capillary pressure. The effects of the dynamic capillary coefficient, the infiltrating flux rate and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Hong Zhang , Paul Andries Zegeling

This paper presents a three-dimensional framework for simulating dynamic wetting phenomena using the volume of fluid (VOF) method, implemented in Basilisk. A geometric interpolation scheme is developed to obtain an accurate and reliable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-26 Yifan Han , Gerd Mutschke , Kerstin Eckert

Two new control volume solvers multiFluidInterFoam and rheoMultiFluidInterFoam are presented for the simulation of Newtonian and non-Newtonian n-phase flows, respectively, fully accounting for interfacial tension and contact-angle effects…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-21 Chris Dritselis , George Karapetsas

This paper is concerned with numerical solution of transport problems in heterogeneous porous media. A semi-discrete continuous-in-time formulation of the linear advection-diffusion equation is obtained by using a mixed hybrid finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang

Strongly coupled immersed boundary (IB) methods solve the nonlinear fluid and structural equations of motion simultaneously for strongly enforcing the no-slip constraint on the body. Handling this constraint requires solving several large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-12 Nirmal Jayaprasad Nair , Andres Goza

We present careful numerical convergence studies, using parameterized curves to reach very high resolutions in two dimensions, of a level set method for multiphase curvature motion known as the Voronoi implicit interface method. Our tests…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

This work presents a hybrid pressure face-centred finite volume (FCFV) solver to simulate steady-state incompressible Navier-Stokes flows. The method leverages the robustness, in the incompressible limit, of the hybridisable discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Matteo Giacomini , Davide Cortellessa , Luan M. Vieira , Ruben Sevilla , Antonio Huerta

Multiphase flow in porous media occurs in several disciplines including petroleum reservoir engineering, petroleum systems' analysis, and CO$_2$ sequestration. While simulations often use a fully implicit discretization to increase the time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-12 Daniel A. Cogswell , Michael L. Szulczewski

Insoluble surfactants adsorbed at liquid-liquid or gas-liquid interfaces alter interfacial tension, leading to variations in the normal stress jump and generating tangential Marangoni stresses that can dramatically affect the flow dynamics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zhong-Han Xue , Jacques Magnaudet , Jie Zhang