Pore-scale modeling of solute transport in partially-saturated porous media

A Saeibehrouzi, S Abolfathi, P Denissenko… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solute transport in partially-saturated porous media plays a key role in multiple applications
across scales, from the migration of nutrients and contaminants in soils to geological energy …

Validation of volume-of-fluid OpenFOAM® isoAdvector solvers using single bubble benchmarks

L Gamet, M Scala, J Roenby, H Scheufler, JL Pierson - Computers & Fluids, 2020 - Elsevier
Free surfaces and fluid interfaces are encountered in a wide variety of gas-liquid
configurations. Although many numerical approaches exist to solve such flows, there is still a …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical modelling of flow boiling inside microchannels: A critical review of methods and applications

MB Darshan, M Magnini, OK Matar - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Boiling heat transfer in microchannels has been a very hot topic in heat transfer research
over the past two decades, fuelled by the dramatic need for high heat flux cooling of …

Role of impinging powder particles on melt pool hydrodynamics, thermal behaviour and microstructure in laser-assisted DED process: a particle-scale DEM–CFD–CA …

A Aggarwal, A Chouhan, S Patel, DK Yadav… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
High speed imaging of molten pool free-surface hydrodynamics in laser-assisted directed
energy deposition process clearly revealed a highly oscillatory and dynamic melt flow due to …

Spreading and rebound dynamics of sub-millimetre urea-water-solution droplets impinging on substrates of varying wettability

M Wörner, N Samkhaniani, X Cai, Y Wu… - Applied Mathematical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The interaction of droplets consisting of urea-water solution (UWS) with a wall is of interest
for automotive exhaust gas after-treatment of Diesel engines by selective catalytic reduction …

Bouncing drop impingement on heated hydrophobic surfaces

N Samkhaniani, A Stroh, M Holzinger… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
We extend a diffuse interface phase-field method for two-phase flow simulations so as to
include interfacial heat transfer and the thermal Marangoni effect. The set of governing …

[HTML][HTML] laserbeamFoam: Laser ray-tracing and thermally induced state transition simulation toolkit

TF Flint, JD Robson, G Parivendhan, P Cardiff - SoftwareX, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of high energy density photonic sources to the surface of metallic substrates
causes localised topological evolution as the interface deforms due to hydrodynamic forces …

Experimental study and numerical verification of silted-up dam break

F Vosoughi, G Rakhshandehroo, MR Nikoo… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, multiphase flood waves caused by failure of silted-up dams have been
scrutinized experimentally, and efficacy of the public-domain CFD software OpenFOAM …

Evaluation of different interface-capturing methods for cryogenic two-phase flows under microgravity

M Xiao, G Yang, Y Huang, J Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The distribution of the gas–liquid interface is crucial to the accurate calculation of the flow
and heat transfer of in-orbit cryogenic propellants, for which the surface tension force …

Interfacial relaxation–crucial for phase-field methods to capture low to high energy drop-film impacts

M Bagheri, B Stumpf, IV Roisman, C Tropea… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Capturing the relaxation of a capillary interface towards its equilibrium profile is pivotal for
accurate simulations of two-phase flow at high dynamics using the phase-field method. The …