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A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method, including both the model and scheme, is developed for multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible and incompressible fluid phases. The consistency of mass conservation and the…

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We present a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for simulating fluid transport across semi-permeable membranes, with a particular focus on osmotic pressure effects. The model extends the classical Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard…

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Thermal multi-phase flow simulations are indispensable to understanding the multi-scale and multi-physics phenomena in metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes, yet accurate and robust predictions remain challenging. This book chapter…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jinhui Yan , Qiming Zhu , Ze Zhao

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Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Pushpendra Kumar Shukla , P. Anil Kishan

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been increasingly used for simulating fluid flows, however its ability to simulate evaporating flow requires significant improvements. This paper proposes an SPH method for evaporating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong

We present a reduction-consistent and thermodynamically consistent formulation and an associated numerical algorithm for simulating the dynamics of an isothermal mixture consisting of $N$ ($N\geqslant 2$) immiscible incompressible fluids…

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The liquid-gas density ratio is a key property of multiphase flow methods to model real fluid systems. Here, a chemical-potential multiphase lattice Boltzmann method is constructed to realize extremely large density ratios. The simulations…

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Recently it was discovered that altering the shape of the meta stable and unstable branches of an equation of state (EOS) can greatly improve the numerical accuracy of liquid and gas densities in the pseudopotential method. Inspired by this…