A review of VOF methods for simulating bubble dynamics

C Mulbah, C Kang, N Mao, W Zhang, AR Shaikh… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
The bubbly flow is encountered in many industrial processes. Numerical efforts dedicated to
the explanation of the bubbly flow physics have never been overemphasized. Based on the …

Unstructured un-split geometrical volume-of-fluid methods–a review

T Marić, DB Kothe, D Bothe - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Geometrical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) methods mainly support structured meshes, and
only a small number of contributions in the scientific literature report results with unstructured …

A computational method for sharp interface advection

J Roenby, H Bredmose… - Royal Society open …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We devise a numerical method for passive advection of a surface, such as the interface
between two incompressible fluids, across a computational mesh. The method is called …

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 …

Revisit to the THINC scheme: a simple algebraic VOF algorithm

F Xiao, S Ii, C Chen - Journal of Computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
This short note presents an improved multi-dimensional algebraic VOF method to capture
moving interfaces. The interface jump in the THINC (tangent of hyperbola for INterface …

Numerical investigation of hydrodynamics and heat transfer of elongated bubbles during flow boiling in a microchannel

M Magnini, B Pulvirenti, JR Thome - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2013 - Elsevier
Flow boiling within microchannels has been explored intensively in the last decade due to
their capability to remove high heat fluxes from microelectronic devices. However, the …

Accurate and efficient surface reconstruction from volume fraction data on general meshes

H Scheufler, J Roenby - Journal of computational physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Simulations involving free surfaces and fluid interfaces are important in many areas of
engineering. There is, however, still a need for improved simulation methods. Recently, a …

A computational framework for conservative, three-dimensional, unsplit, geometric transport with application to the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method

M Owkes, O Desjardins - Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work, a novel computational framework for calculating convection fluxes is developed
and employed in the context of the piecewise linear interface calculation (PLIC) volume-of …

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 …

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 …