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 …

Direct numerical simulation of bubble-induced turbulence

A Innocenti, A Jaccod, S Popinet… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We report on an investigation of bubble-induced turbulence. Bubbles of a size larger than
the dissipative scale cannot be treated as pointwise inclusions, and generate important …

[HTML][HTML] FluTAS: A GPU-accelerated finite difference code for multiphase flows

M Crialesi-Esposito, N Scapin, AD Demou… - Computer Physics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We present the Fluid Transport Accelerated Solver, FluTAS, a scalable GPU code
for multiphase flows with thermal effects. The code solves the incompressible Navier-Stokes …

A geometric VOF method for interface resolved phase change and conservative thermal energy advection

LC Malan, AG Malan, S Zaleski… - Journal of Computational …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a novel numerical method to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
for two-phase flows with phase change. Separate phases are tracked using a geometric …

On coherent vortical structures in wave breaking

S Di Giorgio, S Pirozzoli, A Iafrati - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The flow generated by the breaking of free-surface waves in a periodic domain is simulated
numerically with a gas–liquid Navier–Stokes solver. The solver relies on the volume-of-fluid …

A front-tracking method for simulating interfacial flows with particles and soluble surfactants

X Shang, Z Luo, B Bai, G Hu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
In this research, a three-dimensional model is proposed to simulate the behavior of particle-
covered droplets that contain soluble surfactant. The model includes a full two-way coupling …

CP3d: A comprehensive Euler-Lagrange solver for direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows

Z Gong, Z Wu, C An, B Zhang, X Fu - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive Euler-Lagrange solver, CP3d, for the direct numerical
simulation of particle-laden flows. The solver can handle one-way, two-way, interface …

Effect of turbulence intensity and surface tension on the emulsification process and its stationary state—A numerical study

A Begemann, T Trummler, E Trautner… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We study turbulent emulsions and the emulsification process in homogeneous isotropic
turbulence (HIT) using direct numerical simulations (DNS) in combination with the volume of …

Nanoscale sheared droplet: volume-of-fluid, phase-field and no-slip molecular dynamics

U Lācis, M Pellegrino, J Sundin, G Amberg… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The motion of the three-phase contact line between two immiscible fluids and a solid surface
arises in a variety of wetting phenomena and technological applications. One challenge in …

Machine learning design of volume of fluid schemes for compressible flows

B Després, H Jourdren - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Our aim is to establish the feasibility of Machine-Learning-designed Volume of Fluid
algorithms for compressible flows. We detail the incremental steps of the construction of a …