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We propose a sharp and conservative 3D numerical method for simulating moving contact lines on complex geometries, developed within a coupled geometric Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) and embedded boundary framework. The first major contribution is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Chong-Sen Huang , Tian-Yang Han , Jie Zhang , Ming-Jiu Ni

This paper presents a three-dimensional framework for simulating dynamic wetting phenomena using the volume of fluid (VOF) method, implemented in Basilisk. A geometric interpolation scheme is developed to obtain an accurate and reliable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-26 Yifan Han , Gerd Mutschke , Kerstin Eckert

The stability of most surface-tension-driven interfacial flow simulations is governed by the capillary time-step constraint. This concerns particularly small-scale flows and, more generally, highly-resolved liquid-gas simulations with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-24 Romain Janodet , Berend van Wachem , Fabian Denner

This work demonstrates a computational framework for simulating vaporizing, liquid-gas flows. It is developed for the general vaporization problem which solves the vaporization rate based as from the local thermodynamic equilibrium of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 John Palmore , Olivier Desjardins

Phase interfaces in melting and solidification processes are strongly affected by the presence of convection in the liquid. One way of modeling their transient evolution is to couple an incompressible flow model to an energy balance in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-11 Alexander G. Zimmerman , Julia Kowalski

The capillary time-step constraint is the dominant limitation on the applicable time-step in many simulations of interfacial flows with surface tension and, consequently, governs the execution time of these simulations. We propose a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Fabian Denner , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

The dynamics of compressible liquid-vapor flow depends sensitively on the microscale behavior at the phase boundary. We consider a sharp-interface approach, and propose a multiscale model to describe liquid-vapor flow accurately, without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

In this work, we couple a high-accuracy phase-field fracture reconstruction approach iteratively to fluid-structure interaction. The key motivation is to utilize phase-field modelling to compute the fracture path. A mesh reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Henry von Wahl , Thomas Wick

The numerical simulation of wetting and dewetting of geometrically complex surfaces benefits from unstructured numerical methods because they discretize the domain with second-order accuracy. A recently developed unstructured geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-08 Muhammad Hassan Asghar , Mathis Fricke , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Maric

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…

The Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for simulating incompressible two-phase flows is widespread in academic and commercial simulation software because of its many advantages: a high degree of volume conservation, applicability to unstructured…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-07 Anja Lippert , Tobias Tolle , Aaron Dörr , Tomislav Maric

A novel simulation framework has been developed in this study for the direct numerical simulation of the aerodynamic breakup of a vaporizing drop. The interfacial multiphase flow with phase change is resolved using a consistent geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Bradley Boyd , Yue Ling

We present a novel method for calculating interface curvature on 3D unstructured meshes from piecewise-linear interface reconstructions typically generated in the volume of fluid method. Interface curvature is a necessary quantity to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Z. Jibben , N. N. Carlson , M. M. Francois

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Ali Fakhreddine , Karim Alamé , Krishnan Mahesh

This paper presents a novel volume of fluid ghost-cell immersed boundary (IB) method for two-phase free surface flow interacting with structures. To circumvent the disturbance occurring around the intersection area of the IB and free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-16 Fan Chen , Jinghua Wang , Huan-Feng Duan

Recently, machine learning has been used to substitute parts of conventional computational fluid dynamics, e.g. the cell-face reconstruction in finite-volume solvers or the curvature computation in the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus Adams

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

High-fidelity flow simulations are indispensable when analyzing systems exhibiting multiphase flow phenomena. The accuracy of multiphase flow simulations is strongly contingent upon the finest mesh resolution used to represent the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Kumar Saurabh , Masado Ishii , Makrand A. Khanwale , Hari Sundar , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

We develop a framework for constructing mixed multiscale finite volume methods for elliptic equations with multiple scales arising from flows in porous media. Some of the methods developed using the framework are already known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Lijian Jiang , Ilya D. Mishev

This study proposes a novel adaptive finite volume-particle method (AFVPM) for accurate and efficient free surface flow simulations. The proposed AFVPM synergistically combines the Eulerian finite volume method (FVM) on unstructured meshes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Jiawang Zhang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu