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Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows

This document summarizes numerical methods for multiphase flows, including the marker and cell method, level set method, volume of fluid method, and arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian approach. Multiphase flow is defined as a flow with two or more interacting phases of matter. The numerical methods track the interface between phases using different techniques, such as marker particles, a signed distance function, or a fraction function. Governing equations for each method include continuity, momentum, and surface tension equations.

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Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows

This document summarizes numerical methods for multiphase flows, including the marker and cell method, level set method, volume of fluid method, and arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian approach. Multiphase flow is defined as a flow with two or more interacting phases of matter. The numerical methods track the interface between phases using different techniques, such as marker particles, a signed distance function, or a fraction function. Governing equations for each method include continuity, momentum, and surface tension equations.

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NUMERICAL METHODS

in MULTIPHASE FLOWS
aatay Gventrk
Spring - 2015

Overview
Multiphase Flows
-Definition
-Physical Background
-Cohesive and Adhesive Forces
-Mathematical Modelling
Numerical Methods
- Marker and Cell Method (MAC)
- Level Set Method (LSM)
- Volume of Fluid Method (VOF)
- Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Approach (ALE)

Multiphase Flows
Definition
Multiphase flow is a flow in which two or more phases of matter are interacting dynamically.

Three-phase flow in a pipe


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Physical Background
Surface tension Cohesive forces between liquid molecules
Internal pressure and minimal area Attraction of molecules on surface

Surface tension
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Droplet on water surface


MinuteLab

Cohesive and Adhesive Forces


Cohesive forces Molecules of same substance, resist to separation
Adhesive forces Unlike molecules
Contact angle Cohesion / Adhesion

Contact angle
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Water droplet impinged on a teflon surface


Sandeep
Gande

Mathematical Modelling
Continuity equation
Momentum equation
The rate of strain tensor

Curvature

Interface

Numerical Methods
Marker and Cell Method (MAC, Harlow and Welch, 1965)
Interface tracking Marker particles
Surface cell A cell with marker particle adjacent to an empty cell

Marker and Cell Method (continued)


Boundary Conditions - No-slip BC

Free surface Velocity 1 side vacuum

2 sides
vacuum

Level Set Method (LSM, Osher and Sethian, 1988)


Signed distance function

Air
Interface

Water

is no longer a signed distance function


Re-initialize

Level Set Method (continued)


Unit normal vector

Mean curvature

Density

Viscosity

Curvature

Continuity equation

Momentum equation

Volume of Fluid Method (VOF, Hirt and Nichols, 1981)


Fraction function - 0 C 1

Volume of Fluid Method (continued)

Interface tracking

Flux

Interface normal vector

Volume of Fluid Method (continued)


Density

Viscosity

Surface tension force

Momentum equation

Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Approach (ALE)


Mesh Follows the interface, unstructured
Geometric conservation law (GCL)
Continuity equation

Momentum equation

Geometric conservation law

ALE simulation of the free surface due to the movement of a submerged cylinder
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References
- ahin M., Istanbul Technical University, Aeronautical Eng. Department, Multiphase Flows and Industrial Implications, Jan. 2011

QUESTION
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