A diffuse domain method for two-phase flows with large density ratio in complex geometries

Z Guo, F Yu, P Lin, S Wise… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We present a quasi-incompressible Navier–Stokes–Cahn–Hilliard (q-NSCH) diffuse
interface model for two-phase fluid flows with variable physical properties that maintains …

A numerical approach for non-Newtonian two-phase flows using a conservative level-set method

A Amani, N Balcázar, A Naseri, J Rigola - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
A finite-volume based conservative level-set method is presented to numerically solve the
non-Newtonian multiphase flow problems. One set of governing equations is written for the …

Numerical study of binary droplets collision in the main collision regimes

A Amani, N Balcazar, E Gutiérrez, A Oliva - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Direct numerical simulation of binary droplets collision is done using a conservative level-set
method. The Navier-Stokes and level-set equations are solved using a finite-volume method …

Numerical study of droplet deformation in shear flow using a conservative level-set method

A Amani, N Balcázar, J Castro, A Oliva - Chemical Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with a numerical study on the behavior of a single Newtonian
droplet suspended in another Newtonian fluid, all subjected to a simple shear flow …

A review on development and applications of element-free galerkin methods in computational fluid dynamics

WY Tey, Y Asako, KC Ng, WH Lam - International Journal for …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Element-free Galerkin (EFG) method was formulated to simulate elastic fracture in structural
mechanics and it possesses great advantages by allowing more flexible numerical treatment …

Understanding the heating characteristics in microwave heating moving and deforming foods by a hybrid double-layer ALE/implicit algorithm

J Ye, C Xu, K Huang, J Guo, H Zhu - Innovative Food Science & Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiphysics modeling is an essential tool to understand the heating characteristics of
microwave processing food products. However, when the heated sample is moving and …

Unstructured Conservative Level-Set (UCLS) simulations of film boiling heat transfer

N Balcázar-Arciniega, J Rigola, A Oliva - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
A novel unstructured conservative level-set method for film boiling is introduced. The finite-
volume discretization of transport equations is performed on collocated unstructured grids …

Phase-field lattice Boltzmann method for the simulation of gas-liquid mass transfer

Z Tan, H Yan, R Huang, L Liu, Q Li - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work establishes a lattice Boltzmann (LB) method to simulate the gas-liquid
mass transfer process. In this work, the flow field is solved by the conservative phase-field …

DNS of mass transfer from bubbles rising in a vertical channel

N Balcázar-Arciniega, J Rigola, A Oliva - International Conference on …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract This work presents Direct Numerical Simulation of mass transfer from buoyancy-
driven bubbles rising in a wall-confined vertical channel, through a multiple markers level …

On estimating the interface normal and curvature in piecewise linear interface calculation‐volume of fluid approach for three‐dimensional arbitrary meshes

A Amani, J Muela, E Schillaci, J Castro - AIChE Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Volume of fluid (VOF) method with its Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC)
reconstruction algorithm is one of the most popular approaches in numerical simulation of …