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This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

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In order to treat immiscible two-phase flows at large density ratios and high Reynolds numbers, a three-dimensional code based on the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed, incorporating two major improvements. First, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jun Lai , Zuoli Xiao , Lian-Ping Wang

Robust and accurate fully implicit finite-volume schemes applied to Darcy-scale multiphase flow and transport in porous media are highly desirable. Recently, a smooth approximation of the saturation-dependent flux coefficients based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Francois P. Hamon , Bradley T. Mallison

We evaluate an efficient overset grid method for two-dimensional and three-dimensional particulate flows for small numbers of particles at finite Reynolds number. The rigid particles are discretised using moving overset grids overlaid on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. R. Koblitz , S. Lovett , N. Nikiforakis , W. D. Henshaw

This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Yadong Liu , Dennis Trautwein

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

We present a sharp collocated projection method for solving the immiscible, two-phase Navier-Stokes equations in two- and three-dimensions. Our method is built using non-graded adaptive quadtree and octree grids, where all of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Adam L. Binswanger , Matthew Blomquist , Scott R. West , Shilpa Khatri , Maxime Theillard

Non-orthogonality errors in unstructured Finite Volume methods for simulating incompressible two-phase flows may break the force-balanced discretization. We show that applying the same explicit non-orthogonality correction for all gradient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Jun Liu , Tobias Tolle , Tomislav Maric

The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multi-phase state: small, cold gas clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a hotter, more diffuse volume-filling component. Modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

In two-phase flow, the presence of inter-phasal surface - the interface - causes additional terms to appear in LES formulation. Those terms were ignored in contemporary works, for the lack of model and because the authors expected them to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Wojciech Aniszewski , Andrzej Boguslawski , Maciej Marek , Artur Tyliszczak

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

Interactions between an evolving solid and inviscid flow can result in substantial computational complexity, particularly in circumstances involving varied boundary conditions between the solid and fluid phases. Examples of such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-30 Emma M. Schmidt , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability of two immiscible fluids in the limit of small Atwood numbers is studied by means of a phase-field description. In this method the sharp fluid interface is replaced by a thin, yet finite, transition layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Celani , Andrea Mazzino , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Lara Vozella

This paper presents a sharp free surface method for fully nonlinear flow of two immiscible phases for wave propagation problems in the Finite Volume framework. The method resolves a sharp interface between two phases by combining the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-05 Vuko Vukčević , Johan Roenby , Inno Gatin , Hrvoje Jasak

We consider a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model describing two-phase flows of incompressible fluids in a non-isothermal setting. This model was recently introduced in a previous paper of ours, where we proved existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

A general, two-way coupled, point-particle formulation that accounts for the disturbance created by the dispersed particles in obtaining the undisturbed fluid flow field needed for accurate computation of the force closure models is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Pedram Pakseresht , Sourabh V. Apte

In probability density function (PDF) methods of turbulent flows, the joint PDF of several flow variables is computed by numerically integrating a system of stochastic differential equations for Lagrangian particles. A mathematically exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-17 J. Bakosi

Accurate numerical modeling of compressible flows, particularly in the turbulent regime, requires a method that is non-dissipative and stable at high Reynolds ($Re$) numbers. For a compressible flow, it is known that discrete conservation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-23 Suhas S. Jain , Parviz Moin

This paper is devoted to the robust approximation with a variational phase field approach of multiphase mean curvature flows with possibly highly contrasted mobilities. The case of harmonically additive mobilities has been addressed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Eric Bonnetier , Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou

We develop a lattice Boltzmann equation method for simulating multi-phase immiscible fluid flows with variation of density and viscosity, based on the model proposed by Gunstensen {\em et al} for two-component immiscible fluids. The…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Daryl Grunau , Shiyi Chen , Kenneth Egger