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A novel way to handle surface tension gradient driven flows is developed in the volume-of-fluid (VoF) framework. Using an open source Navier-Stokes solver, {\it Basilisk}, and the present formulation, we investigate thermocapillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-19 Manoj Kumar Tripathi , Kirti Chandra Sahu

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

A variational volume-of-fluid (VVOF) methodology is devised for evolving interfaces under curvature-dependent speed. The interface is reconstructed geometrically using the analytic relations of Scardovelli and Zaleski [1] and the advection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Ali Fakhreddine , Karim Alamé , Krishnan Mahesh

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

One of the prevailing challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics is accurate simulation of two-phase flows involving heat and mass transfer across the fluid interface. This is currently an active field of research, which is to some extend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-02 Henning Scheufler , Johan Roenby

Fluid flows are omnipresent in nature and engineering disciplines. The reliable computation of fluids has been a long-lasting challenge due to nonlinear interactions over multiple spatio-temporal scales. The compressible Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 Deniz A. Bezgin , Aaron B. Buhendwa , Nikolaus A. Adams

We present an hybrid VOF/embedded boundary method allowing to model two-phase flows in presence of solids with arbitrary shapes. The method relies on the coupling of existing methods: a geometric Volume of fluid (VOF) method to tackle the…

When simulating three-dimensional flows interacting with deformable and elastic obstacles, current methods often encounter complexities in the governing equations and challenges in numerical implementation. In this work, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Andreu F. Gallen , Joan Muñoz Biosca , Mario Castro , Aurora Hernández-Machado

In this work, an analytical Volume Of Fluid (VOF) implementation of the Generalized Navier Boundary Condition is presented based on the Brackbill surface tension model. The model is validated by simulations of droplets on a smooth surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-31 A. M. P. Boelens , J. J. de Pablo

We present the Fluid Transport Accelerated Solver, FluTAS, a scalable GPU code for multiphase flows with thermal effects. The code solves the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation for two-fluid systems, with a direct FFT-based Poisson…

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

We consider two-level finite element discretization methods for the stream function formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. The two-level method consists of solving a small nonlinear system on the coarse mesh, then solving a linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Faisal Fairag

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

The presented research paper illustrates the development of a new methodology to solve 2-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stoke equations, which Pukhnachev proposed through introducing unknown functions in the stream and pressure functions of fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-07 Mohit Kumar Srivastava , Love Trivedi , Rakshit Kaushik

The paper presents numerical methods for unsteady flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in internal domains with many inlet/outlet sections. The novel variants of dissipative boundary conditions augmented by the inertia terms are used at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Jacek Szumbarski

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 paper presents a streamfunction-vorticity formulation for the Navier--Stokes and Euler equations on general surfaces. Notably, this includes non-simply connected surfaces, on which the harmonic components of the velocity field play a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Tim Brüers , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Max Wardetzky

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee

Advancements in computational fluid mechanics have largely relied on Newtonian frameworks, particularly through the direct simulation of Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we propose an alternative computational framework that employs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-10 H. Sababha , A. Elmaradny , H. Taha , M. Daqaq

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