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An improved numerical solver for the unified solution of compressible and incompressible fluids involving interfaces is proposed. The present method is based on the CIP-CUP (Cubic Interpolated Propagation / Combined, Unified Procedure)…
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…
We present a practical cell-centred volume-of-fluid method developed within a pure Eulerian setting for the simulation of compressible solid-fluid problems. The method builds on a previously published diffuse-interface Godunov-type scheme…
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In this paper, we consider a poroelasticity problem in heterogeneous multicontinuum media that is widely used in simulations of the unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs and geothermal fields. Mathematical model contains a coupled system of…
For time-dependent problems with high-contrast multiscale coefficients, the time step size for explicit methods is affected by the magnitude of the coefficient parameter. With a suitable construction of multiscale space, one can achieve a…
We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…
Simulating flow in a highly heterogeneous reservoir with multiscale characteristics could be considerably demanding. To tackle this problem, we propose a numerical scheme coupling the Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM)…
Writing high performance solvers for engineering applications is a delicate task. These codes are often developed on an application to application basis, highly optimized to solve a certain problem. Here, we present our work on developing a…
In this article, we propose a novel conservative diffuse-interface method for the simulation of immiscible compressible two-phase flows. The proposed method discretely conserves the mass of each phase, momentum and total energy of the…
In this paper, we present a residual-driven multiscale method for simulating Darcy flow in perforated domains, where complex geometries and highly heterogeneous permeability make direct simulations computationally expensive. To address…
In this work we analyze an optimized artificial fixed-stress iteration scheme for the numerical approximation of the Biot system modelling fluid flow in deformable porous media. The iteration is based on a prescribed constant artificial…
Simulating physical problems involving multi-time scale coupling is challenging due to the need of solving these multi-time scale processes simultaneously. In response to this challenge, this paper proposed an explicit multi-time step…
In this paper a new semi-implicit relaxation scheme for the simulation of multi-scale hyperbolic conservation laws based on a Jin-Xin relaxation approach is presented. It is based on the splitting of the flux function into two or more…
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…
This paper presents our work on designing a parallel platform for large-scale reservoir simulations. Detailed components, such as grid and linear solver, and data structures are introduced, which can serve as a guide to parallel reservoir…
In this paper, we study the numerical algorithm for a nonlinear poroelasticity model with nonlinear stress-strain relations. By using variable substitution, the original problem can be reformulated to a new coupled fluid-fluid system, that…
We propose and numerically implement a constitutive framework for granular media that allows the material to traverse through its many common phases during the flow process. When dense, the material is treated as a pressure sensitive…
In this paper, we derive optimal L2- and H1-norm error estimates for a fully discrete convex-splitting decoupled finite element method (FEM) for the two-phase diffuse interface magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. We use the semi-implicit…