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http://dx.doi.org/10.9765/KSCOE.2020.32.1.1

Comparison of Volume of Fluid (VOF) type Interface Capturing Schemes using Eulerian Grid System  

Kim, Do-Sam (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Kim, Tag-Gyeom (Dept. of Energy and Environmental Eng., Graduate School, Catholic Kwandong University)
Shin, Bum-Shick (Waterfront and Coastal Research Center, Catholic Kwandong University)
Lee, Kwang-Ho (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Catholic Kwandong University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers / v.32, no.1, 2020 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
The application of multiphase flows is increasingly being applied to analyze phenomena such as single phase flows where the fluid boundary changes continuously over time or the problem of mixing a liquid phase and a gas phase. In particular, multiphase flow models that take into account incompressible Newtonian fluids for liquid and gas are often applied to solve the problems of the free water surface such as wave fields. In general, multi-phase flow models require time-based the surface tracking of each fluid's phase boundary, which determines the accuracy of the final calculation of the model. This study evaluates the advection performance of representative VOF-type boundary tracking techniques applied to various CFD numerical codes. The effectiveness of the FCT method to control the numerical flux to minimize the numerical diffusion in the conventional VOF-type boundary tracking method and advection calculation was mainly evaluated. In addition, the possibility of tracking performance of free surface using CIP method (Yabe and Aoki, 1991) was also investigated. Numerical results show that the FCT-VOF method introducing an anti-diffusive flux to precent excessive diffusion is superior to other methods under the confined conditions in this study. The results from this study are expected to be used as an important basic data in selecting free surface tracking techniques applied to various numerical codes.
Keywords
multiphase flows; free water surface; boundary tracking technique; numerical diffusion; CFD numerical code;
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