A conservative phase field method for solving incompressible two-phase flows

PH Chiu, YT Lin - Journal of Computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper a conservative phase-field method based on the work of Sun and Beckermann
[Y. Sun, C. Beckermann, Sharp interface tracking using the phase-field equation, J. Comput …

A simple algebraic interface capturing scheme using hyperbolic tangent function

F Xiao, Y Honma, T Kono - International journal for numerical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a simple and practical scheme for capturing moving interfaces or free
boundaries in multi‐fluid simulations. The scheme, which is called THINC (tangent of …

Numerical studies of the influence of the dynamic contact angle on a droplet impacting on a dry surface

K Yokoi, D Vadillo, J Hinch, I Hutchings - Physics of Fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We numerically investigated liquid droplet impact behavior onto a dry and flat surface. The
numerical method consists of a coupled level set and volume-of-fluid framework …

Efficient implementation of THINC scheme: a simple and practical smoothed VOF algorithm

K Yokoi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2007 - Elsevier
In this paper, we improve the multi-dimensional THINC (tangent of hyperbola for interface
capturing) scheme [F. Xiao, Y. Honma, T. Kono, A simple algebraic interface capturing …

A practical numerical framework for free surface flows based on CLSVOF method, multi-moment methods and density-scaled CSF model: Numerical simulations of …

K Yokoi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
We propose a practical numerical framework for free surface flows with surface tension
force. The numerical framework consists of the CLSVOF (coupled level set and volume-of …

A density-scaled continuum surface force model within a balanced force formulation

K Yokoi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
We propose a numerical framework which can simulate free surface flows with complex
moving interfaces like droplet splashing as minimizing spurious currents. The numerical …

Unified formulation for compressible and incompressible flows by using multi-integrated moments II: Multi-dimensional version for compressible and incompressible …

F Xiao, R Akoh, S Ii - Journal of Computational Physics, 2006 - Elsevier
Following our previous paper on a novel finite volume formulation for computing flows of any
Mach number, we present the multi-dimensional extension of the method in this paper …

Numerical studies of droplet splashing on a dry surface: triggering a splash with the dynamic contact angle

K Yokoi - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We numerically investigate water droplet splashing on a dry, flat and smooth surface. Our
numerical framework can reproduce a prompt splash with satellite droplets and spikes at …

Anti-diffusion method for interface steepening in two-phase incompressible flow

KK So, XY Hu, NA Adams - Journal of Computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a method for obtaining sharp interfaces in two-phase
incompressible flows by an anti-diffusion correction, that is applicable in a straight-forward …

A multi-moment finite volume method for incompressible Navier–Stokes equations on unstructured grids: volume-average/point-value formulation

B Xie, S Ii, A Ikebata, F Xiao - Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
A robust and accurate finite volume method (FVM) is proposed for incompressible viscous
fluid dynamics on triangular and tetrahedral unstructured grids. Differently from conventional …