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Virtual flow metering (VFM) is a cost-effective and non-intrusive technology for inferring multiphase flow rates in petroleum assets. Inferences about flow rates are fundamental to decision support systems that operators extensively rely…
This study introduces a Riemann-based Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework for the stable and accurate simulation of surface tension in multiphase flows, with density and viscosity ratios as high as 1000 and 100, respectively.…
Suspension flows are ubiquitous in nature (hemodynamics, subsurface fluid mechanics, etc.) and industrial applications (hydraulic fracturing, CO$_2$ storage, etc.). However, such flows are notoriously difficult to model due to the variety…
Immersed boundary methods are extensively used for simulations of dynamic solid objects interacting with fluids due to their computational efficiency and modelling flexibility compared to body-fitted grid methods. However, thin geometries,…
Incompressibility is a fundamental condition in most fluid models. Accumulation of simulation errors violates it and causes volume loss. Past work suggested correction methods to battle it. These methods, however, are imperfect and in some…
Multiscale simulation methods have been developed based on the local stress sampling strategy and applied to three flow problems with different difficulty levels: (a) general flow problems of simple fluids, (b) parallel (one-dimensional)…
We present an improved method for computing incompressible viscous flow around suspended rigid particles using a fixed and uniform computational grid. The main idea is to incorporate Peskin's regularized delta function approach [Acta…
This work expands on our recently introduced low Mach enthalpy method [1] for simulating the melting and solidification of a phase change material (PCM) alongside (or without) an ambient gas phase. The method captures PCM's volume change…
Real-time fluid and aeroacoustic simulation on complex surfaces can have interactive applications - from globe-based weather visualizations to immersive computer games with physically accurate wind and sound. However, conventional…
A comprehensive scheme for the spatial discretisation of continuity equation, momentum advection and normal and shear stresses at the fluid interfaces is presented for numerically simulating the incompressible two phase flows based on the…
Conjugate scalar transport with interfacial jump conditions on complex interfacial geometries is common in thermal and chemical processes, while its accurate and efficient simulations are still quite challenging. In the present study, a…
We present an immersed boundary projection method formulated in a body-fixed frame of reference for flow-structure interaction (FSI) problems involving rigid bodies with complex geometries. The body-fixed formulation is aimed at maximizing…
In spite of considerable progress, computing curvature in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods continues to be a challenge. The goal is to develop a function or a subroutine that returns the curvature in computational cells containing an interface…
We further develop a thermal LB model for multiphase flows. In the improved model, we propose to use the FFT scheme to calculate both the convection term and external force term. The usage of FFT scheme is detailed and analyzed. By using…
In this paper, we propose a new stabilized projection-based POD-ROM for the numerical simulation of incompressible flows. The new method draws inspiration from successful numerical stabilization techniques used in the context of Finite…
In this paper, we develop a three-dimensional multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) based on a set of non-orthogonal basis vectors. Compared with the classical MRT-LBM based on a set of orthogonal basis vectors, the…
The paper develops a method for the numerical simulation of a free-surface flow of incompressible viscous fluid around a streamlined body. The body is a rigid stationary construction partially submerged in the fluid. The application we are…
This paper presents an incomplete Octree mesh implementation of the Shifted Boundary Method (Octree-SBM) for multiphysics simulations of coupled flow and heat transfer. Specifically, a semi-implicit formulation of the thermal Navier-Stokes…
This paper presents a unified and computationally efficient framework for predicting incompressible, irrotational (potential) flow around multiple immersed bodies in two-dimensional domains, with particular emphasis on quantifying…