ISSN:
0271-2091
Keywords:
two-phase
;
Van Leer
;
convective transport
;
volume fractions
;
momentum
;
interface tracking
;
Engineering
;
Engineering General
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The Van Leer method for the computation of convective fluxes is extended to two-phase flow. By preventing spurious undershoots and overshoots, the scheme preserves physical realism while maintaining high-order accuracy. This is particulary important for two-phase flows, since phase exchange terms are typically a function of volume fraction products and numerical diffusion can incorrectly mix the two phases. The scheme described here is constructed to guarantee that the sum of the volume fractions is always unity and that the volume fractions are always greater than or equal to zero. Various test problems are computed to demonstrate the accuracy of the method and to show how the scheme might be incorporated in existing computational methods. In addition to multiphase flow applications, setting equal phase velocities results in a volume marker scheme that is well suited to single-phase interface tracking problems.
Additional Material:
11 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.1650210303
