Review of computational studies on boiling and condensation

CR Kharangate, I Mudawar - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
Developments in many modern applications are encountering rapid escalation in heat
dissipation, coupled with a need to decrease the size of thermal management hardware …

Direct numerical simulation of reactor two-phase flows enabled by high-performance computing

J Fang, JJ Cambareri, CS Brown, J Feng… - … Engineering and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
Nuclear reactor two-phase flows remain a great engineering challenge, where the high-
resolution two-phase flow database which can inform practical model development is still …

Nucleate pool boiling simulations using the interface tracking method: Boiling regime from discrete bubble to vapor mushroom region

Y Sato, B Niceno - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
A numerical simulation method to model nucleate pool boiling from multiple nucleation sites
has been developed and applied to different boiling-water regimes, ranging from discrete …

A consistent method for direct numerical simulation of droplet evaporation

J Reutzsch, C Kieffer-Roth, B Weigand - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A consistent method for direct numerical simulations of evaporation processes is presented.
It is implemented into the CFD code FS3D which solves the incompressible Navier-Stokes …

Investigation on the effect of convective outflow boundary condition on the bubbles growth, rising and breakup dynamics of nucleate boiling

W Zhao, J Liang, M Sun, Z Wang - International Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, a phase-change lattice Boltzmann model was employed to simulate the effects
of two computational domains with confined space and free outlet boundary considering the …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear acoustic theory on flowing liquid containing multiple microbubbles coated by a compressible visco-elastic shell: Low and high frequency cases

T Kanagawa, M Honda, Y Kikuchi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microbubbles coated by visco-elastic shells are important for ultrasound diagnosis using
contrast agents, and the dynamics of single coated bubbles has been investigated in the …

[HTML][HTML] Physico-mathematical model for multiple ultrasound-contrast-agent microbubbles encapsulated by a visco-elastic shell: Effect of shell compressibility on …

Y Kikuchi, T Kanagawa, T Ayukai - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to its potential for application in ultrasound-based diagnosis and therapy, the
dynamics of a microbubble encapsulated by shells has long been theoretically investigated …

Modeling of interfacial mass transfer based on a single-field formulation and an algebraic VOF method considering non-isothermal systems and large volume changes

CP Zanutto, EE Paladino, F Evrard… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a consistent numerical model for the prediction of interfacial heat and
mass transfer with high volume changes based on a single-field formulation and an …

[HTML][HTML] A volume-of-fluid method for variable-density, two-phase flows at supercritical pressure

J Poblador-Ibanez, WA Sirignano - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid
and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split volume-of-fluid …

[HTML][HTML] A Volume-of-Fluid method for multicomponent droplet evaporation with Robin boundary conditions

SZ Salimi, N Scapin, ER Popescu, P Costa… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a numerical method tailored to perform interface-resolved simulations of
evaporating multicomponent two-phase flows. The novelty of the method lies in the use of …