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A novel numerical technique designed for interface flow simulations using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method on arbitrary unstructured meshes has been introduced. The method is called SimPLIC, which seamlessly integrates Piecewise Linear…
Volume of fluid (VOF) methods are extensively used to track fluid interfaces in numerical simulations, and many VOF algorithms require that the interface be reconstructed geometrically. For this purpose, the Piecewise Linear Interface…
For capillary driven flow the interface curvature is essential in the modelling of surface tension via the imposition of the Young--Laplace jump condition. We show that traditional geometric volume of fluid (VOF) methods, that are based on…
A new PLIC (piecewise linear interface calculation)-type VOF (volume of fluid) method, called APPLIC (approximated PLIC) method, is presented. Although the PLIC method is one of the most accurate VOF methods, the three-dimensional algorithm…
A novel interface reconstruction strategy for volume of fluid (VOF) methods is introduced that represents the liquid-gas interface as two planes that co-exist within a single computational cell. In comparison to the piecewise linear…
We present a numerical method for interface-resolved simulations of evaporating two-fluid flows based on the volume-of-fluid (VoF) method. The method has been implemented in an efficient FFT-based two-fluid Navier-Stokes solver, using an…
Volume of fluid(VOF) method is a sharp interface method employed for simulations of two phase flows. Interface in VOF is usually represented using piecewise linear line segments in each computational grid based on the volume fraction field.…
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…
In this paper, four distinct approaches to Volume of Fluid (VOF) computational method are compared. Two of the methods are the 'simplified' VOF formulations, in that they do not require geometrical interface reconstruction. The assessment…
The accurate reconstruction of immiscible fluid-fluid interfaces from the volume fraction field is a critical component of geometric Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods. A common strategy is the Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC),…
A wide variety of interface capturing methods have been introduced for simulating two-phase flows throughout the years. However, there is a noticeable dearth of literature focusing on objective comparisons between these methods, especially…
We present a hybrid Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) Phase-Field method for general soluble surfactant-laden interfacial flows. The scheme retains the VoF method for interface tracking and momentum solution, while a diffused Phase-Field serves as a…
We extend the volume of fluid method for the computation of two-phase flow to a higher order accurate method in two dimensions. The interface reconstruction by the PLIC method is thereby replaced by a periodic interface reconstruction. The…
Multiphase, compressible and viscous flows are of crucial importance in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. Despite the large effort paid in the last decades to develop accurate and efficient numerical techniques to address…
We present a novel numerical method to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for two-phase flows with phase change, using a one-fluid approach. Separate phases are tracked using a geometric Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method with…
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…
An advanced Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is presented that enables performant three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the interaction of two immiscible fluids in a gaseous environment with large topology changes, e.g.,…
We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…
The complexity of binary droplet collisions increases for the collision of immiscible liquids with the occurrence of triple lines and thin encapsulating films. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is extended with an efficient interface…
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…