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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chen, T.
• Minev, P. D.
• Nandakumar, K.

Titel

A projection scheme for incompressible multiphase flow using adaptive Eulerian grid

Ist Teil von

• International journal for numerical methods in fluids, 2004-05, Vol.45 (1), p.1-19

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper presents a finite element method for incompressible multiphase flows with capillary interfaces based on a (formally) second‐order projection scheme. The discretization is on a fixed Eulerian grid. The fluid phases are identified and advected using a level set function. The grid is temporarily adapted around the interfaces in order to maintain optimal interpolations accounting for the pressure jump and the discontinuity of the normal velocity derivatives. The least‐squares method for computing the curvature is used, combined with piecewise linear approximation to the interface. The time integration is based on a formally second order splitting scheme. The convection substep is integrated over an Eulerian grid using an explicit scheme. The remaining generalized Stokes problem is solved by means of a formally second order pressure‐stabilized projection scheme. The pressure boundary condition on the free interface is imposed in a strong form (pointwise) at the pressure‐computation substep. This allows capturing significant pressure jumps across the interface without creating spurious instabilities. This method is simple and efficient, as demonstrated by the numerical experiments on a wide range of free‐surface problems. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.