Numerical models of surface tension

S Popinet - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Numerical models of surface tension play an increasingly important role in our capacity to
understand and predict a wide range of multiphase flow problems. The accuracy and …

Numerical modeling of multiphase flows in microfluidics and micro process engineering: a review of methods and applications

M Wörner - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2012 - Springer
This article presents a comprehensive review of numerical methods and models for interface
resolving simulations of multiphase flows in microfluidics and micro process engineering …

Evaluating the performance of the two-phase flow solver interFoam

SS Deshpande, L Anumolu… - Computational science & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of the open source multiphase flow solver, interFoam, is evaluated in this
work. The solver is based on a modified volume of fluid (VoF) approach, which incorporates …

Performance of interFoam on the simulation of progressive waves

BE Larsen, DR Fuhrman, J Roenby - Coastal Engineering Journal, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The performance of interFoam (a widely used solver within OpenFOAM®) in simulating the
propagation of a nonlinear (stream function solution) regular wave is investigated in this …

A depletable micro-layer model for nucleate pool boiling

Y Sato, B Niceno - Journal of Computational physics, 2015 - Elsevier
A depletable micro-layer model has been developed for the simulation of nucleate pool
boiling within the framework of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling using an …

Nucleate pool boiling simulations using the interface tracking method: Boiling regime from discrete bubble to vapor mushroom region

Y Sato, B Niceno - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
A numerical simulation method to model nucleate pool boiling from multiple nucleation sites
has been developed and applied to different boiling-water regimes, ranging from discrete …

Comparison of surface tension models for the volume of fluid method

KJ Vachaparambil, KE Einarsrud - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the increasing use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to investigate multiphase flow
scenarios, modelling surface tension effects has been a topic of active research. A well …

[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 …

A stable and efficient method for treating surface tension in incompressible two-phase flow

M Sussman, M Ohta - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2009 - SIAM
A new approach based on volume preserving motion by mean curvature for treating surface
tension in two-phase flows is introduced. Many numerical tests and a theoretical justification …

OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamic simulations of two-phase flow and mass transfer in an advanced-flow reactor

MJ Nieves-Remacha, L Yang… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Advanced-flow reactor (AFR) technology is an alternative to scale-up continuous flow
chemistries from micro to milli scales, while retaining mass and heat transfer performance …