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Interface Capturing for Immiscible Two-phase Fluid Flows by THINC Method

THINC법을 이용한 비혼합 혼상류의 경계면 추적

  • Lee, Kwang-Ho (Industry and Academia Cooperation Foundation, Kwandong University) ;
  • Kim, Kyu-Han (Department of Civil Engineering, Kwandong University) ;
  • Kim, Do-Sam (Department of Civil Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
  • Received : 2012.08.06
  • Accepted : 2012.08.22
  • Published : 2012.08.31
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Abstract

In the numerical simulation of wave fields using a multi-phase flow model that considers simultaneous flows of materials with different states such as gas, liquid and solid, there is need of an accurate representation of the interface separating the fluids. We adopted an algebraic interface capturing method called tangent of hyperbola for interface-capturing(THINC) method for the capture of the free-surface in computations of multi-phase flow simulations instead of geometrical-type methods such a volume of fluid(VOF) method. The THINC method uses a hyperbolic tangent functions to represent the surface, and compute the numerical flux for the fluid fraction functions. One of the remarkable advantages of THINC method is its easy applicability to incorporate various numerical codes based on Navier-Stokes solver because it does not require the extra geometric reconstruction needed in most of VOF-type methods. Several tests were carried out in order to investigate the advection of interfaces and to verify the applicability of the THINC method to wave fields based on the one-field model for immiscible two-phase flows (TWOPM). The numerical results revealed that the THINC method is able to track the interface between air and water separating the fluids although its algorithm is fairly simple.

기체와 액체의 유동 및 고체의 변형을 동시에 고려할 수 있는 혼상류모델을 이용하여 파동장을 해석하는 경우, 서로 다른 비혼합의 유체 경계면의 시간변형을 고정도로 추적하는 것이 대단히 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 경계면의 추적에 있어서 VOF(Volume of Fluid)법으로 대표되는 경계면 형상의 재구축이 필요한 Geometrical-type의 경계추적법의 대신에 Algebraic-type의 경계추적법인 THINC(Tangent of Hyperbola for INterface-Capturing)법을 적용하였다. THINC법은 경계면에 대한 형상의 구축이 필요하지 않으므로 VOF법에 비해 비교적 간단한 알고리즘을 가지며, 기존의 Navier-Stokes solver에로 적용성이 용이한 장점을 갖는다. 본 연구에서는 THINC법의 기본적인 이류특성을 고찰하고, 혼상류수치모델인 TWOPM(one-field Model for immiscible TWO-Phase flows)과 결합한 수치모델을 파동장에 적용하여 비혼합 혼상류에서 경계면의 추적능을 검토하였다. 그 결과, 혼상류의 경계면 추적에 있어서 상대적으로 간단한 알고리즘의 THINC법이 기존의 VOF법과 유사한 정도를 갖는 해석법이라는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 따라서 향후 기포의 연행을 동반하는 쇄파 및 쇄파력의 해석 등에 그의 적용성이 기대된다.

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