A cell-centred Eulerian volume-of-fluid method for compressible multi-material flows

We present a practical cell-centred volume-of-fluid method developed within a pure Eulerian setting for the simulation of compressible solid-fluid problems. The method builds on a previously published diffuse-interface Godunov-type scheme through the addition of a specialised mixed -cell update that is capable of maintaining sharp interfaces indefinitely. The mixed-cell update is local and may be viewed as an interface-sharpening extension to the underlying diffuse-interface scheme serving the same purpose as other techniques such as Tangent of Hyperbola INterface Capturing (THINC), and hence the method can be straightforwardly extended to include other coupled physics. We validate the method on a range of challenging test problems including a collapsing metal shell, cylinder impacts and the three-dimensional simulation of a buried explosive charge. Finally we demonstrate the robustness of the method, and its use in a multi-physics context, by modelling the BRL 105 mm unconfined shaped charge with reactive high-explosive burn and rate-sensitive plasticity.

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This paper presents a practical cell-centred volume-of-fluid method for simulating compressible solid-fluid problems within a pure Eulerian setting. The method incorporates a mixed-cell update to maintain sharp interfaces, and can be easily extended to include other coupled physics. Various challenging test problems are used to validate the method, and its robustness and application in a multi-physics context are demonstrated.