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 …

Multiphase flow in microfluidics: From droplets and bubbles to the encapsulated structures

A Sattari, P Hanafizadeh, M Hoorfar - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microfluidic technologies have a unique ability to control more precisely and effectively on
two-phase flow systems in comparison with macro systems. Controlling the size of the …

Dynamics of an initially spherical bubble rising in quiescent liquid

MK Tripathi, KC Sahu, R Govindarajan - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
The beauty and complexity of the shapes and dynamics of bubbles rising in liquid have
fascinated scientists for centuries. Here we perform simulations on an initially spherical …

An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven interfacial flows

S Popinet - Journal of Computational Physics, 2009 - Elsevier
A method combining an adaptive quad/octree spatial discretisation, geometrical Volume-Of-
Fluid interface representation, balanced-force continuum-surface-force surface-tension …

Influence of surface tension implementation in volume of fluid and coupled volume of fluid with level set methods for bubble growth and detachment

A Albadawi, DB Donoghue, AJ Robinson… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
A simple coupled Volume of Fluid (VOF) with Level Set (LS) method (S-CLSVOF) for
improved surface tension implementation is proposed and tested by comparison against a …

[PDF][PDF] A brief review of the phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method for multiphase flows

H Wang, X Yuan, H Liang, Z Chai, B Shi - Capillarity, 2019 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
In this paper, we present a brief overview of the phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method
(LBM) that is a distinct and efficient numerical algorithm for multiphase flow problems. We …

An accurate conservative level set/ghost fluid method for simulating turbulent atomization

O Desjardins, V Moureau, H Pitsch - Journal of computational physics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel methodology for simulating incompressible two-phase flows by
combining an improved version of the conservative level set technique introduced in [E …

A balanced force refined level set grid method for two-phase flows on unstructured flow solver grids

M Herrmann - Journal of computational physics, 2008 - Elsevier
A balanced force refined level set grid method for two-phase flows on structured and
unstructured flow solver grids is presented. To accurately track the phase interface location …

Conservative volume-of-fluid method for free-surface simulations on cartesian-grids

GD Weymouth, DKP Yue - Journal of Computational Physics, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the state of the art in Cartesian-grid methods through development
of new advection and reconstruction Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) algorithms which are applicable …

Numerical simulation of a single rising bubble by VOF with surface compression

J Klostermann, K Schaake… - International Journal for …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The capability of the direct volume of fluid method for describing the surface dynamics of a
free two‐dimensional rising bubble is evaluated using quantities of a recently published …