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Surface Tension Capability Within an Adaptively Refined Compressible Flow Code
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Surface Tension Capability Within an Adaptively Refined Compressible Flow Code

Z Jibben, J Velechovsky, T Masser, M Francois and ASME
Volume 1C, Symposia: Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows; Gas and Liquid-Solid Two-Phase Flows; Numerical Methods for Multiphase Flow; Turbulent Flows: Issues and Perspectives; Flow Applications in Aerospace; Fluid Power; Bio-Inspired Fluid Mechanics; Flow Manipulation and Active Control; Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics; Transport Phenomena in Energy Conversion From Clean and Sustainable Resources; Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing Processes, Vol.1
ASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, Jul. 30 - Aug. 03, 2017
07/30/2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2017-69451

Abstract and subjects

We present a method to simulate surface tension between immiscible materials within an inviscid compressible flow solver. The material interface is represented using the volume of fluid technique with piecewise-linear interface reconstruction. We employ the continuum surface force model for surface tension, implemented in the context of the MUSCL-Hancock finite volume method for the Euler equations on an adaptively refined Eulerian mesh. We show results for droplet verification test cases.

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