Abstract
Herein, we present a phase-field model and its efficient numerical method for incompressible single and binary fluid flows on arbitrarily curved surfaces in a three-dimensional (3D) space. An incompressible single fluid flow is governed by the Navier–Stokes (NS) equation and the binary fluid flow is governed by the two-phase Navier–Stokes–Cahn–Hilliard (NSCH) system. In the proposed method, we use a narrow band domain to embed the arbitrarily curved surface and extend the NSCH system and apply a pseudo-Neumann boundary condition that enforces constancy of the dependent variables along the normal direction of the points on the surface. Therefore, we can use the standard discrete Laplace operator instead of the discrete Laplace–Beltrami operator. Within the narrow band domain, the Chorin's projection method is applied to solve the NS equation, and a convex splitting method is employed to solve the Cahn–Hilliard equation with an advection term. To keep the velocity field tangential to the surface, a velocity correction procedure is applied. An effective mass correction step is adopted to preserve the phase concentration. Computational results such as convergence test, Kevin–Helmholtz instability, and Rayleigh–Taylor instability on curved surfaces demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 113382 |
Journal | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering |
Volume | 372 |
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Publication status | Published - 2020 Dec 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:J. Yang is supported by China Scholarship Council ( 201908260060 ). The corresponding author (J.S. Kim) is supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education ( NRF-2019R1A2C1003053 ). The authors thank the reviewers for their constructive and helpful comments on the revision of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- Cahn–Hilliard equation
- Kevin–Helmholtz instability
- Rayleigh–Taylor instability
- Two-phase fluid flow
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Computer Science Applications