4.6 Article

On estimating the interface normal and curvature in piecewise linear interface calculation-volume of fluid approach for three-dimensional arbitrary meshes

Journal

AICHE JOURNAL
Volume 68, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/aic.17565

Keywords

interface curvature; interface normal; multiphase flows; PLIC reconstruction approach; volume of fluid

Funding

  1. Programa Torres Quevedo [PTQ2018-010060]
  2. [MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
  3. [PID2020-115837RBI00]

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This article introduces the application of the VOF method based on the PLIC reconstruction algorithm in numerical simulation of interfacial flows, and proposes a method for evaluating the geometric properties of the interface based on a triangular grid. By comparing with commonly used methods, it is found that the proposed methods in this article have significant improvements in calculation accuracy and spatial convergence errors.
Volume of fluid (VOF) method with its Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC) reconstruction algorithm is one of the most popular approaches in numerical simulation of interfacial flows with a wide range of applications in different areas. In an effort to evaluate the similarity of the PLIC-generated planes in comparison with the exact interface, a point-cloud, based on the polygon centers of PLIC planes is extracted, which later is used to form a triangular grid that represents the estimated interface. The main objective of this article is to evaluate the interface geometrical properties based on the extracted triangular grid of the interface. The methods presented in this article, characterized by a higher spatially convergence ratio, are compared with the commonly used methods. The proposed methods are tested for two 3-dimensional general test cases, where an evident improvement is seen in calculation accuracy and spatial convergence of the errors of interface normal vector and curvature.

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