[PDF][PDF] Interface-capturing methods for two-phase flows: An overview and recent developments

S Mirjalili, SS Jain, M Dodd - Center for Turbulence Research Annual …, 2017 - doddm.com
Two-phase flows are of great interest in natural and industrial applications such as rain
formation (Shaw 2003), breaking waves (Melville 1996), spray atomization (Sirignano 1999) …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

TwoPhaseFlow: a framework for develo** two phase flow solvers in OpenFOAM

H Scheufler, J Roenby - OpenFOAM® Journal, 2023 - journal.openfoam.com
We present a new OpenFOAM based open-source framework, TwoPhaseFlow, enabling fast
implementation and testing of new phase change and surface tension force models for two …

TwoPhaseFlow: An OpenFOAM based framework for development of two phase flow solvers

H Scheufler, J Roenby - arxiv preprint arxiv:2103.00870, 2021 - arxiv.org
One of the prevailing challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics is accurate simulation of
two-phase flows involving heat and mass transfer across the fluid interface. This is currently …

A massively parallel accurate conservative level set algorithm for simulating turbulent atomization on adaptive unstructured grids

R Janodet, C Guillamón, V Moureau, R Mercier… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article presents a massively parallel and robust strategy to perform the simulation of
turbulent incompressible two-phase flows on unstructured grids in complex geometries. This …

Development of a modified mass transfer model based on height function method to capture the pressure oscillation occurred in direct contact condensation process

C Zhu, Y Li, F **e, L Wang, Y Ma - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2023 - Elsevier
For direct contact condensation (DCC) simulation, it is a challenge to capture the numerical
characteristic of pressure oscillation precisely, especially the frequency and amplitude. It is …

A hybrid particle volume-of-fluid method for curvature estimation in multiphase flows

P Karnakov, S Litvinov, P Koumoutsakos - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

An enhanced un-split face-vertex flux-based VoF method

T Marić, H Marschall, D Bothe - Journal of computational physics, 2018 - Elsevier
Multiple advancements of the dimensionally un-split, flux-based geometrical Volume-of-
Fluid method on unstructured meshes are proposed. A second-order accurate interface …

Breaching the capillary time-step constraint using a coupled VOF method with implicit surface tension

F Denner, F Evrard, B Van Wachem - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Computing interface curvature from volume fractions: A machine learning approach

HV Patel, A Panda, JAM Kuipers, E Peters - Computers & Fluids, 2019 - Elsevier
The volume of fluid (VOF) method is widely used to simulate the flow of immiscible fluids. It
uses a discrete and sharp volume fractions field to represent the fluid-fluid interface on a …