Numerical simulations of flows with moving contact lines

Y Sui, H Ding, PDM Spelt - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Computational methods have been extended recently to allow for the presence of moving
contact lines in simulated two-phase flows. The predictive capability offered by these …

Modeling surfactant-laden droplet dynamics by lattice Boltzmann method

Y Zong, C Zhang, H Liang, L Wang, J Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Based on the phase-field theory, we present an improved lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for
simulating droplet dynamics with soluble surfactants. This method takes advantage of three …

Phase-field models for multi-component fluid flows

J Kim - Communications in Computational Physics, 2012 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we review the recent development of phase-field models and their numerical
methods for multi-component fluid flows with interfacial phenomena. The models consist of a …

A phase-field moving contact line model with soluble surfactants

G Zhu, J Kou, J Yao, A Li, S Sun - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A phase-field moving contact line model is presented for a two-phase system with soluble
surfactants. With the introduction of some scalar auxiliary variables, the original free energy …

Thermodynamically consistent modelling of two-phase flows with moving contact line and soluble surfactants

G Zhu, J Kou, B Yao, Y Wu, J Yao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Droplet dynamics on a solid substrate is significantly influenced by surfactants. It remains a
challenging task to model and simulate the moving contact line dynamics with soluble …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

Benchmark computations of diffuse interface models for two‐dimensional bubble dynamics

S Aland, A Voigt - … Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Diffuse interface models for incompressible two‐phase flow with large density ratios are
tested on benchmark configurations for a two‐dimensional bubble rising in liquid columns …

A hybrid lattice Boltzmann and finite difference method for droplet dynamics with insoluble surfactants

H Liu, Y Ba, L Wu, Z Li, G Xi, Y Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Droplet dynamics in microfluidic applications is significantly influenced by surfactants. It
remains a research challenge to model and simulate droplet behaviour including …

Coalescence of surfactant-laden drops by phase field method

G Soligo, A Roccon, A Soldati - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose and test the validity of a modified Phase Field Method (PFM), which
is specifically developed for large scale simulations of turbulent flows with large and …

Linear and fully decoupled scheme for a hydrodynamics coupled phase-field surfactant system based on a multiple auxiliary variables approach

J Yang, Z Tan, J Kim - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a linear, fully decoupled, and energy stable finite difference scheme for solving
a phase-field surfactant fluid system. Inspired by the idea of multiple scalar auxiliary …