Three-dimensional volume-conserving immersed boundary model for two-phase fluid flows

Yibao Li, Ana Yun, Dongsun Lee, Jaemin Shin, Darae Jeong, Junseok Kim

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    Abstract

    We present a volume-preserving scheme for two-phase immiscible incompressible flows using an immersed boundary method (IBM) in a three-dimensional space. The two-phase IBM employs a mixture of Eulerian and Lagrangian variables, where the fluid interface is represented by discrete Lagrangian markers exerting surface tension forces to the Eulerian fluid domain and the markers are advected by the fluid velocity. The interactions between the Lagrangian markers and the fluid variables are linked by the discretized Dirac delta function. The present study extends the previous two-dimensional research (Li et al., Volume preserving immersed boundary methods for two-phase fluid flows, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids 69 (2012) 842-858) to the three-dimensional space. The key idea of the proposed method is relocating surface points along the normal directions to conserve the total volume. We perform a number of numerical experiments to show the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)36-46
    Number of pages11
    JournalComputer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
    Volume257
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013 Apr 5

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    J.S. Kim was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2011-0023794 ). The authors thank Ha-Kyu Song for many useful discussions. The authors also wish to thank the reviewers for the constructive and helpful comments on the revision of this article.

    Keywords

    • Finite difference
    • Immersed boundary method
    • Multigrid method
    • Two-phase fluid flow
    • Volume-preserving

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computational Mechanics
    • Mechanics of Materials
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • General Physics and Astronomy
    • Computer Science Applications

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