Multiscale studies on ionic liquids

K Dong, X Liu, H Dong, X Zhang, S Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) offer a wide range of promising applications because of their much
enhanced properties. However, further development of such materials depends on the …

A comprehensive review of modeling water solidification for droplet freezing applications

S Akhtar, M Xu, M Mohit, AP Sasmito - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Various mathematical approaches undertaken to model all stages of droplet freezing are
reviewed. The literature is rife with theoretical, experimental, and numerical treatments of the …

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 …

A combined CFD/visualization investigation of heat transfer behaviors during geyser boiling in two-phase closed thermosyphon

X Wang, Y Wang, H Chen, Y Zhu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to promote the understanding of geyser boiling in two-phase closed thermosyphon,
a combined CFD/visualization investigation was carried out in this work. The widely used …

Toward efficient and accurate interface capturing on arbitrary hybrid unstructured grids: The THINC method with quadratic surface representation and Gaussian …

B Xie, F Xiao - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel interface capturing scheme is proposed to compute moving interface on arbitrary
hybrid unstructured grids. Different from conventional volume of fluid (VOF) schemes that …

Enhancing occupants' comfort through BIM-based probabilistic approach

H Alavi, N Forcada, R Bortolini, DJ Edwards - Automation in construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that buildings are designed to meet occupants' needs, many do not perform
as planned, impacting upon both building performance and occupants' comfort. Analyzing …

Conservative Allen–Cahn–Navier–Stokes system for incompressible two-phase fluid flows

D Jeong, J Kim - Computers & Fluids, 2017 - Elsevier
A new phase-field model for immiscible incompressible two-phase liquid flows has been
developed. The model consists of a conservative Allen–Cahn equation with a space-time …

CFD simulation of multiphase flows and erosion predictions under annular flow and low liquid loading conditions

P Zahedi, J Zhang, H Arabnejad, BS McLaury… - Wear, 2017 - Elsevier
For many industrial applications dealing with gas-liquid flow, transporting gas and liquid
simultaneously causes many challenges. Prediction of erosion in multiphase flow is a …

A coupled level-set and volume-of-fluid (CLSVOF) method for prediction of microgravity flow boiling with low inlet subcooling on the international space station

I Mudawar, S Kim, J Lee - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study is part of a series of NASA-supported investigations of flow boiling of n-
perfluorohexane (n-PFH, C 6 F 14) under microgravity on the International Space Station …

A coupled level set and volume of fluid method on unstructured grids for the direct numerical simulations of two-phase flows including phase change

NK Singh, B Premachandran - International journal of heat and mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study, a coupled level set and volume of fluid (CLSVOF) method is developed
for two-dimensional unstructured grids to perform direct numerical simulations of two-phase …