PLIC-Net: A machine learning approach for 3D interface reconstruction in volume of fluid methods

A Cahaly, F Evrard, O Desjardins - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
The accurate reconstruction of immiscible fluid–fluid interfaces from the volume fraction field
is a critical component of geometric Volume of Fluid methods. A common strategy is the …

Moments-based interface reconstruction, remap and advection

M Shashkov, E Kikinzon - Journal of computational physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a new moment-of-fluid (MOF 2) interface reconstruction method. It uses the
zeroth, first, and second moments of the fragment of material inside a cell of the mesh to …

Capturing thin structures in VOF simulations with two-plane reconstruction

A Han, R Chiodi, O Desjardins - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
A novel interface reconstruction strategy for volume of fluid (VOF) methods is introduced that
represents the liquid-gas interface as two planes that co-exist within a single computational …

Subgrid scale modeling of droplet bag breakup in VOF simulations

A Han, O Desjardins - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
The mesh-dependency of the breakup of liquid films, including their breakup length scales
and resulting drop size distributions, has long been an obstacle inhibiting the computational …

Comparison of methods for curvature estimation from volume fractions

A Han, F Evrard, O Desjardins - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates and compares the accuracy and robustness of curvature estimation
methods for three-dimensional interfaces represented implicitly by discrete volume fractions …

[CARTE][B] Advancement of numerical methods for simulating primary atomization

RM Chiodi - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Multiphase flows are ubiquitous in natural and engineered systems and occur over scales
ranging many orders of magnitude, from the movement of the ocean to the flow of blood …

[HTML][HTML] gVOF: An open-source package for unsplit geometric volume of fluid methods on arbitrary grids

J López, J Hernández - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
The gVOF package implements several accurate and efficient geometric volume of fluid
(VOF) methods on arbitrary grids, either structured or unstructured with convex or non …

Modelling and simulation of surface-tension-dominant two-phase flows with an improved geometric volume of fluid framework

H **a, W Ge - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Two-phase flows with surface tension are ubiquitous in engineering applications. A high-
fidelity numerical framework for capturing sharp interfaces and eliminating unphysical …

Numerical simulation of interfacial resonant Faraday waves between two immiscible liquids

D Liu, X Jiang, P Lin - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
An in-house numerical model is extended to study the resonant Faraday waves at the
interface between two immiscible liquids with the consideration of surface tension. The …

[HTML][HTML] A momentum balance correction to the non-conservative one-fluid formulation in boiling flows using volume-of-fluid

J Poblador-Ibanez, N Valle, BJ Boersma - Journal of Computational …, 2025 - Elsevier
A proven methodology to solve multiphase flows is based on the one-fluid formulation of the
governing equations, which treats the phase transition across the interface as a single fluid …