Numerical modeling of multiphase flows in microfluidics and micro process engineering: a review of methods and applications

M Wörner - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2012 - Springer
This article presents a comprehensive review of numerical methods and models for interface
resolving simulations of multiphase flows in microfluidics and micro process engineering …

Numerical simulations of flows with moving contact lines

Y Sui, H Ding, PDM Spelt - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Computational methods have been extended recently to allow for the presence of moving
contact lines in simulated two-phase flows. The predictive capability offered by these …

Finite element methods for surface PDEs

G Dziuk, CM Elliott - Acta Numerica, 2013 - cambridge.org
In this article we consider finite element methods for approximating the solution of partial
differential equations on surfaces. We focus on surface finite elements on triangulated …

Essentially non-oscillatory and weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes

CW Shu - Acta Numerica, 2020 - cambridge.org
Essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) and weighted ENO (WENO) schemes were designed for
solving hyperbolic and convection–diffusion equations with possibly discontinuous solutions …

A diffuse-interface method for two-phase flows with soluble surfactants

KE Teigen, P Song, J Lowengrub, A Voigt - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Elsevier
A method is presented to solve two-phase problems involving soluble surfactants. The
incompressible Navier–Stokes equations are solved along with equations for the bulk and …

Solving PDEs in complex geometries: a diffuse domain approach

X Li, J Lowengrub, A Rätz… - … in mathematical sciences, 2009 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We extend previous work and present a general approach for solving partial differential
equations in complex, stationary, or moving geometries with Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin …

A front-tracking method for computation of interfacial flows with soluble surfactants

M Muradoglu, G Tryggvason - Journal of computational physics, 2008 - Elsevier
A finite-difference/front-tracking method is developed for computations of interfacial flows
with soluble surfactants. The method is designed to solve the evolution equations of the …

A phase-field moving contact line model with soluble surfactants

G Zhu, J Kou, J Yao, A Li, S Sun - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A phase-field moving contact line model is presented for a two-phase system with soluble
surfactants. With the introduction of some scalar auxiliary variables, the original free energy …

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 …

A hybrid lattice Boltzmann and finite difference method for droplet dynamics with insoluble surfactants

H Liu, Y Ba, L Wu, Z Li, G **, Y Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Droplet dynamics in microfluidic applications is significantly influenced by surfactants. It
remains a research challenge to model and simulate droplet behaviour including …