A residual-based non-orthogonality correction for force-balanced unstructured Volume-of-Fluid methods

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Autori principali: Liu, Jun, Tolle, Tobias, Maric, Tomislav
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author Liu, Jun
Tolle, Tobias
Maric, Tomislav
author_facet Liu, Jun
Tolle, Tobias
Maric, Tomislav
contents Non-orthogonality errors in unstructured Finite Volume methods for simulating incompressible two-phase flows may break the force-balanced discretization. We show that applying the same explicit non-orthogonality correction for all gradient terms in the context of segregated solution algorithms is not sufficient to achieve force balance. To ensure force balance, we introduce a straightforward and deterministic residual-based control of the non-orthogonality correction, which removes the number of non-orthogonality corrections as a free parameter from the simulation. Our method is directly applicable to different unstructured finite-volume two-phase flow simulation methods as long as they discretize the one-field formulation of incompressible two-phase Navier-Stokes equations. We demonstrate force balance for the surface tension force and the gravity force near linear solver tolerance for an algebraic and a geometric Volume-of-Fluid method using the stationary droplet and stationary water column verification cases on polyhedral unstructured meshes with varying levels of non-orthogonality.
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spellingShingle A residual-based non-orthogonality correction for force-balanced unstructured Volume-of-Fluid methods
Liu, Jun
Tolle, Tobias
Maric, Tomislav
Computational Physics
Non-orthogonality errors in unstructured Finite Volume methods for simulating incompressible two-phase flows may break the force-balanced discretization. We show that applying the same explicit non-orthogonality correction for all gradient terms in the context of segregated solution algorithms is not sufficient to achieve force balance. To ensure force balance, we introduce a straightforward and deterministic residual-based control of the non-orthogonality correction, which removes the number of non-orthogonality corrections as a free parameter from the simulation. Our method is directly applicable to different unstructured finite-volume two-phase flow simulation methods as long as they discretize the one-field formulation of incompressible two-phase Navier-Stokes equations. We demonstrate force balance for the surface tension force and the gravity force near linear solver tolerance for an algebraic and a geometric Volume-of-Fluid method using the stationary droplet and stationary water column verification cases on polyhedral unstructured meshes with varying levels of non-orthogonality.
title A residual-based non-orthogonality correction for force-balanced unstructured Volume-of-Fluid methods
topic Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04043