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Direct numerical simulation of compressible interfacial multiphase flows using a mass-momentum-energy consistent volume-of-fluid method

Journal

COMPUTERS & FLUIDS
Volume 236, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2021.105267

Keywords

Compressible flows; Multiphase flows; Shock-interface interaction; Volume-of-fluid; Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation (NSF) [1853193]
  2. Directorate For Engineering
  3. Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1853193] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Compressible interfacial multiphase flows are important fluid phenomena and numerical simulation is a useful tool to study the unclear physics behind them. In this study, a novel numerical method is developed to accurately resolve shock waves, interfaces, and their interactions. The simulation results are validated against theories, experiments, and other simulations, showing excellent agreement. This method has demonstrated its capability in capturing the viscous and capillary effects on shock-interface interaction.
Compressible interfacial multiphase flows (CIMF) are essential to different applications, such as liquid fuel injection in supersonic propulsion systems. Since high-level details in CIMF are often difficult to measure in experiments, numerical simulation is an important alternative to shed light on the unclear physics. A direct numerical simulation (DNS) of CIMF will need to rigorously resolve the shock waves, the interfaces, and the interaction between the two. A novel numerical method has been developed and implemented in the present study. The geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method is employed to resolve the sharp interfaces between the two phases. The advection of the density, momentum, and energy is carried out consistently with VOF advection. To suppress spurious oscillations near shocks, numerical diffusion is introduced based on the Kurganov-Tadmor method in the region away from the interface. The contribution of pressure is incorporated using the projection method and the pressure is obtained by solving the Poisson-Helmholtz equation, which allows the present method to handle flows with all Mach numbers. The present method is tested by a sequence of CIMF problems. The simulation results are validated against theories, experiments, and other simulations, and excellent agreement has been achieved. In particular, the linear single-mode Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities with finite Weber and Reynolds numbers are simulated. The simulation results agree very well with the linear stability theory, which affirms the capability of the present method in capturing the viscous and capillary effects on shock-interface interaction.

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