[HTML][HTML] Level set method for atomization and evaporation simulations

K Luo, C Shao, M Chai, J Fan - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2019 - Elsevier
Atomization and evaporation processes have extensively existed in a variety of scientific and
engineering applications, such as, rain formation, spray cooling, and spray combustion in …

Comparison between the diffuse interface and volume of fluid methods for simulating two-phase flows

S Mirjalili, CB Ivey, A Mani - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2019 - Elsevier
A wide variety of interface capturing methods have been introduced for simulating two-
phase flows throughout the years. However, there is a noticeable dearth of literature …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical time-step restrictions as a result of capillary waves

F Denner, BGM van Wachem - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
The propagation of capillary waves on material interfaces between two fluids imposes a
strict constraint on the numerical time-step applied to solve the equations governing this …

Eulerian–Lagrangian spray atomization model coupled with interface capturing method for diesel injectors

J Anez, A Ahmed, N Hecht, B Duret, J Reveillon… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Traditional Discrete Particle Methods (DPM) such as the Euler–Lagrange
approaches for modeling atomization, even if widely used in technical literature, are not …

A mass conserving level set method for detailed numerical simulation of liquid atomization

K Luo, C Shao, Y Yang, J Fan - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
An improved mass conserving level set method for detailed numerical simulations of liquid
atomization is developed to address the issue of mass loss in the existing level set method …

Compressive VOF method with skewness correction to capture sharp interfaces on arbitrary meshes

F Denner, BGM van Wachem - Journal of computational physics, 2014 - Elsevier
The accurate and efficient modelling of two-phase flows is at present mostly limited to
structured, unskewed meshes, due to the additional topological and numerical complexity of …

On suitability of phase-field and algebraic volume-of-fluid OpenFOAM® solvers for gas–liquid microfluidic applications

F Jamshidi, H Heimel, M Hasert, X Cai… - Computer Physics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microfluidic devices often contain several phases. Their design can be supported by
interface-resolving numerical simulations, requiring accurate methods and validated …

A fourth-order accurate curvature computation in a level set framework for two-phase flows subjected to surface tension forces

M Coquerelle, S Glockner - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
We propose an accurate and robust fourth-order curvature extension algorithm in a level set
framework for the transport of the interface. The method is based on the Continuum Surface …

Evaluation of droplet evaporation models and the incorporation of natural convection effects

AP Pinheiro, JM Vedovoto - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2019 - Springer
Evaporation of fuel droplets in high temperature gas environment is of great importance in
many engineering applications. There are already several theoretical models proposed in …

Estimation of liquid entry pressure in hydrophobic membranes using CFD tools

P Yazgan-Birgi, MIH Ali, HA Arafat - Journal of Membrane Science, 2018 - Elsevier
A two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed and validated
to estimate the liquid entry pressure (LEP) of hydrophobic membranes used for membrane …