Volume of fluid method: a brief review

A Mohan, G Tomar - Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2024 - Springer
Understanding and predicting multiphase flows is of great relevance due to the ubiquitous
nature of such flows in both nature and in many industrial applications. Rapid development …

Rotational and reflectional equivariant convolutional neural network for data-limited applications: Multiphase flow demonstration

B Siddani, S Balachandar, R Fang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This article deals with approximating steady-state particle-resolved fluid flow around a fixed
particle of interest under the influence of randomly distributed stationary particles in a …

[HTML][HTML] A new isosurface extraction method on arbitrary grids

J López, A Esteban, J Hernández, P Gómez… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of interface-capturing methods (such as level-set, phase-field or volume of
fluid (VOF) methods) for arbitrary 3D grids has further highlighted the need for more accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning of interfacial curvature: A symmetry-preserving approach for the volume of fluid method

A Önder, PLF Liu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimation of interface curvature in surface-tension dominated flows is a remaining
challenge in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods. Data-driven methods are recently emerging as …

Development of an Improved One-Hot Encoding Method for Bubbly Flow Image Prediction Generation under Continuous Superficial Gas Velocities

Z Xiang, L Ruan, M Qian, B Xie - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In recent years, bubble segmentation and detection algorithms have significantly contributed
to the study of two-phase interface parameters. Nevertheless, high-quality bubbly flow image …

Hybridization of front tracking and level set for multiphase flow simulations: a machine learning approach

I Yoon, J Chergui, D Juric, S Shin - Journal of Mechanical Science and …, 2023 - Springer
A machine learning (ML) based approach is proposed to hybridize two well-established
methods for multiphase flow simulations: the front tracking (FT) and the level set (LS) …

Analytic solution to the piecewise linear interface construction problem and its application in curvature calculation for volume-of-fluid simulation codes

M Lehmann, S Gekle - Computation, 2022 - mdpi.com
The plane–cube intersection problem has been discussed in the literature since 1984 and
iterative solutions to it have been used as part of piecewise linear interface construction …

[HTML][HTML] Computing Interface Curvature from Height Functions Using Machine Learning with a Symmetry-Preserving Approach for Two-Phase Simulations

A Cervone, S Manservisi, R Scardovelli, L Sirotti - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The volume of fluid (VOF) method is a popular technique for the direct numerical simulations
of flows involving immiscible fluids. A discrete volume fraction field evolving in time …

A hybrid inference system for improved curvature estimation in the level-set method using machine learning

LÁ Larios-Cárdenas, F Gibou - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a novel hybrid strategy based on machine learning to improve curvature
estimation in the level-set method. The proposed inference system couples enhanced …

PLIC-Net: A machine learning approach for 3D interface reconstruction in volume of fluid methods

A Cahaly, F Evrard, O Desjardins - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
The accurate reconstruction of immiscible fluid-fluid interfaces from the volume fraction field
is a critical component of geometric Volume of Fluid methods. A common strategy is the …