Journal Article

A levelset-based cut-cell method for interfacial flows: part 2—free-surface flows and dynamic contact angle treatment

This second segment of a two-part study investigates the numerical modeling of the Navier slip boundary condition at the contact line at the junction of free and solid surfaces, a …

quiros-rodriguez-a.

A levelset-based cut-cell method for interfacial flows: part 1—{Navier}–{Stokes} equations and {Rayleigh}–{Bénard} instability with melting boundary

The treatment of complex geometries in computational fluid dynamics applications is a challenging endeavor, particularly when they couple the dynamics of two flow fields, as in …

quiros-rodriguez-a.

Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of an unsteady axisymmetric reacting solid particle

Simulations of unsteady solid fuel particle combustion involve a variety of complex phenomena, which can be numerically predicted using models with varying levels of fidelity. …

hassan-a.

A compressible formulation of the one-fluid model for two-phase flows

In this paper, we introduce a compressible formulation for dealing with 2D/3D compressible interfacial flows. It integrates a monolithic solver to achieve robust velocity–pressure …

el-ouafa-s.

Uncertainty quantification of kinetic models using adjoint-driven active subspace algorithms

Simulations of chemically reacting flows are particularly sensitive to kinetic models, which in turn depend on a large number of parameters. Therefore, quantifying parametric …

hassan-a.

Fully-coupled parallel solver for the simulation of two-phase incompressible flows

In the framework of the in-house code Fugu, a fully-coupled solver is developed for massively parallel simulations of three-dimensional incompressible multiphase flows. The …

el-ouafa-s.

Adjoint-based optimization of two-dimensional {Stefan} problems

A range of optimization cases of two-dimensional Stefan problems, solved using a tracking-type cost-functional, is presented. A level-set method is used to capture the interface …

fullana-t.

An optimized {Vofi} library to initialize the volume fraction field

The Vofi (Volume Of Fluid Initializer) library has been developed to initialize the volume fraction field determined by implicitly-defined interfaces. The major conceptual changes …

chierici-a.

A three-dimensional cell-based volume-of-fluid method for conservative simulations of primary atomization

This paper presents an improvement of the three-dimensional unsplit cell-based advection scheme of Le Chenadec and Pitsch [J. Comput. Phys. 233 (2013) 10-33] [27], which was shown …

frode-f.

Sensitivity analysis of an unsteady char particle combustion

Simulations of unsteady char particle combustion rely on various models that are necessary in order to correctly predict the governing flow and combustion processes. These models, …

hassan-a.