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We present a projection-based numerical integration technique to deal with embedded interface in finite element (FE) framework. The element cut by an embedded interface is denoted as a cut cell. We recognize elemental matrices of a cut cell…

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Phase-field methods have long been used to model the flow of immiscible fluids. Their ability to naturally capture interface topological changes is widely recognized, but their accuracy in simulating flows of real fluids in practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-10 Baofang Song , Carlos Plana , Jose M. Lopez , Marc Avila

This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tim Wallis , Philip Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

In this paper we propose a new diffuse interface model for the numerical simulation of inviscid compressible flows around fixed and moving solid bodies of arbitrary shape. The solids are assumed to be moving rigid bodies, without any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Friedemann Kemm , Elena Gaburro , Ferdinand Thein , Michael Dumbser

Our current understanding of the structure and dynamics of aqueous interfaces at the molecular level has grown substantially in the last few decades due to the continuous development of surface-specific spectroscopies, such as vibrational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Yair Litman , Jinggang Lan , Yuki Nagata , David M. Wilkins

In this study, we present a parallel topology algorithm with a suitable interpolation method for chimera simulations in CFD. The implementation is done in the unstructured Finite Volume (FV) framework and special attention is given to the…

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Simulations of wetting phenomena by a meshfree particle method are presented. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are used to model the two-phase flow. The continuous surface force model is used to incorporate the surface tension…

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We present a novel approach for generating isotropic surface triangle meshes directly from unoriented 3D point clouds, with the mesh density adapting to the estimated local feature size (LFS). Popular reconstruction pipelines first…

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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…

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Mesh reconstruction from a 3D point cloud is an important topic in the fields of computer graphic, computer vision, and multimedia analysis. In this paper, we propose a voxel structure-based mesh reconstruction framework. It provides the…

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We systematically validate the static local mesh refinement capabilities of a recently proposed IMEX-DG scheme implemented in the framework of the deal.II library. Non-conforming meshes are employed in atmospheric flow simulations to…

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This article presents an immersed virtual element method for solving a class of interface problems that combines the advantages of both body-fitted mesh methods and unfitted mesh methods. A background body-fitted mesh is generated…

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Numerical modeling of the migration of three-phase immiscible fluid flow in variably saturated zones is challenging due to the different behavior of the system between unsaturated and saturated zones. This behavior results in the use of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-27 Alessandra Feo , Fulvio Celico

Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) remains a fundamental yet computationally challenging problem in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This study develops a moving mesh Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithm within a Runge-Kutta…

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We present MeshODE, a scalable and robust framework for pairwise CAD model deformation without prespecified correspondences. Given a pair of shapes, our framework provides a novel shape feature-preserving mapping function that continuously…

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We present an anisotropic mesh adaptation procedure based on Riemannian metrics for the simulation of two-phase incompressible flows with non-matching densities. The system dynamics are governed by the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes (CHNS)…

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We propose a new diffuse interface model for simulating an inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free surface problem. By using the Onsager's variational principle and the laws of thermodynamics, we derive a thermodynamically consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jiancheng Wang , Maojun Li , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

In this paper we present recent developments concerning a Cell-Centered Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (CCALE) strategy using the Moment Of Fluid (MOF) interface reconstruction for the numerical simulation of multi-material compressible…

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In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to implement the contact angle boundary condition on immersed surfaces for phase-field simulations of two-phase flows using the Cahn-Hilliard equation on a Cartesian mesh. This simple and…

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