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The thin runback water films driven by the gas flow, the pressure gradient and the gravity on the iced aircraft surface are investigated in this paper. A three-dimensional film flow model based on Finite Volume Method (FVM) and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-19 Tong Liu , Jinsheng Cai , Kun Qu , Shucheng Pan

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

In this work, the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with feedback forcing introduced by Goldstein et al. (1993) and often referred in the literature as the Virtual Boundary Method (VBM), is addressed. The VBM has been extensively applied both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Michele Girfoglio , Giovanni Stabile , Andrea Mola , Gianluigi Rozza

Surface-tension-dominant droplet evaporation is ubiquitous and of importance to many applications. We present an improved Coupled Level Set and Volume of Fluid (i-CLSVoF) framework without explicit interface reconstruction for modelling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-15 Huihuang Xia , Marc Kamlah

Kinetic approaches, i.e., methods based on the lattice Boltzmann equations, have long been recognized as an appealing alternative for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in computational fluid dynamics. However, such approaches…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Wei Li , Kai Bai , Xiaopei Liu

We present an efficient and accurate immersed boundary (IB) finite element (FE) solver for numerically solving incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. Particular emphasis is given to internal flows with complex geometries (blood flow in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 G. C. Bourantas , D. L. Lampropoulos , B. F. Zwick , V. C. Loukopoulos , A. Wittek , K. Miller

In this article, we are interested in the asymptotic analysis of a finite volume scheme for one dimensional linear kinetic equations, with either Fokker-Planck or linearized BGK collision operator. Thanks to appropriate uniform estimates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Maxime Herda , Thomas Rey

In this paper, we present a class of finite volume schemes for incompressible flow problems. The unknowns are collocated at the center of the control volumes, and the stability of the schemes is obtained by adding to the mass balance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 R. Eymard , R. Herbin , J. -C Latché , B Piar

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

Geometric flux-based Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) methods are widely considered consistent in handling two-phase flows with high density ratios. However, although the conservation of mass and momentum is consistent for two-phase incompressible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jun Liu , Tobias Tolle , Davide Zuzio , Jean-Luc Estivalezes , Santiago Marquez Damian , Tomislav Maric

We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

A computational technique has been developed to perform compressible flow simulations involving moving boundaries using an embedded boundary approach within the block-structured adaptive mesh refinement framework of AMReX. A conservative,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Mahesh Natarajan , Ray Grout , Weiqun Zhang , Marc Day

A Kinetic Inviscid Flux (KIF) is proposed for simulating incompressible and compressible flows. It is constructed based on the direct modeling of multi-scale flow behaviors, which is used in the Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS), the Unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Sha Liu , Junzhe Cao , Chengwen Zhong

We construct a new nonlinear finite volume (FV) scheme for highly anisotropic diffusion equations, that satisfies the discrete minimum-maximum principle. The construction relies on the linearized scheme satisfying less restrictive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Nour Dahmen , Jerome Droniou , Francois Rogier

We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

In this paper, the finite volume lattice Boltzmann method (FVLBM) on unstructured grid presented in Part I of this paper is extended to simulate the turbulent flows. To model the turbulent effect, the $k-\omega$ SST turbulence model is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Yong Wang , Chengwen Zhong , Jun Cao , Congshan Zhuo

Phase-field methods have long been used to model the flow of immiscible fluids. Their ability to naturally capture interface topological changes is widely recognized, but their accuracy in simulating flows of real fluids in practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-10 Baofang Song , Carlos Plana , Jose M. Lopez , Marc Avila

Dense particle suspensions are promising candidates for next-generation Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) receivers, enabling operating temperatures above 800 degrees C. However, accurate modeling of the rheological behavior of granular flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 Raphael Münster , Otto Mierka , Dmitri Kuzmin , Stefan Turek

Investigating blood flow in the cardiovascular system is crucial for assessing cardiovascular health. Computational approaches offer some non-invasive alternatives to measure blood flow dynamics. Numerical simulations based on traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Han Zhang , Raymond Chan , Xue-Cheng Tai

We introduce a finite-volume numerical scheme for solving stochastic gradient-flow equations. Such equations are of crucial importance within the framework of fluctuating hydrodynamics and dynamic density functional theory. Our proposed…