Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Volume 377, Issue -, Pages 155-161Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2018.10.037
Keywords
Machine learning; Volume of fluid; Curvature; Interface; Two-phase flow
Funding
- Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, an Energy Innovation Hub for Modeling and Simulation of Nuclear Reactors under U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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In spite of considerable progress, computing curvature in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods continues to be a challenge. The goal is to develop a function or a subroutine that returns the curvature in computational cells containing an interface separating two immiscible fluids, given the volume fraction in the cell and the adjacent cells. Currently, the most accurate approach is to fit a curve (2D), or a surface (3D), matching the volume fractions and finding the curvature by differentiation. Here, a different approach is examined. A synthetic data set, relating curvature to volume fractions, is generated using well-defined shapes where the curvature and volume fractions are easily found and then machine learning is used to fit the data (training). The resulting function is used to find the curvature for shapes not used for the training and implemented into a code to track moving interfaces. The results suggest that using machine learning to generate the relationship is a viable approach that results in reasonably accurate predictions. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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