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    The document summarizes a coupled level set and volume-of-fluid (CLSVOF) method for simulating two-phase flows. CLSVOF combines the level set method, which tracks the interface using a signed distance function, and the volume-of-fluid method, which tracks volume fractions of each phase. This coupling improves mass conservation compared to using either method alone. The implementation involves solving a level set transport equation using user-defined scalars in FLUENT. Examples demonstrate tracking liquid jet breakup and a rising bubble more accurately with CLSVOF.

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    The document summarizes a coupled level set and volume-of-fluid (CLSVOF) method for simulating two-phase flows. CLSVOF combines the level set method, which tracks the interface using a signed distance function, and the volume-of-fluid method, which tracks volume fractions of each phase. This coupling improves mass conservation compared to using either method alone. The implementation involves solving a level set transport equation using user-defined scalars in FLUENT. Examples demonstrate tracking liquid jet breakup and a rising bubble more accurately with CLSVOF.

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    The document summarizes a coupled level set and volume-of-fluid (CLSVOF) method for simulating two-phase flows. CLSVOF combines the level set method, which tracks the interface using a signed distance function, and the volume-of-fluid method, which tracks volume fractions of each phase. This coupling improves mass conservation compared to using either method alone. The implementation involves solving a level set transport equation using user-defined scalars in FLUENT. Examples demonstrate tracking liquid jet breakup and a rising bubble more accurately with CLSVOF.

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    A Coupled Level Set/Volume-of-Fluid

    (CLSVOF) Method for Target Flow Simulation

    Yan Zhan
    8-18-2011
    Outline
    • What is CLSVOF?
    • Why CLSVOF?
    • How to implement CLSVOF?
    What is CLSVOF?
    Volume of Fluid (VOF) Level Set (LS)
    • Volumetric phase fraction F • Level-Set function Ф
    Phase 1 F=1 Phase 1 Ф>0
    Phase 2 F=0 Phase 2 Ф<0
    Interface 0<F<1 Interface Ф=0
    • Transport of F: • Transport of F:
    ~ ~
    ( ρF ) + ∇ ⋅ ( ρUF ) = 0
    t
    ( ρφ ) + ∇ ⋅ ( ρUφ ) = 0
    t

    • Mass-conservative • Robust geometric information (normals


    • Diffusion of the interface and curvatures); automatic handling of
    topological changes (merging and
    pinching);
    • Not mass-conservative

    Volume of Fluid Level Set

    CLSVOF
    Why CLSVOF?

    Sussman, J. Comput. Phys., 162, 2 (2000)


    Menard, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 33, 5 (2007)
    Why CLSVOF?

    Development of the liquid jet (time step is 2.5 μm) (Menard, 2007)
    Why CLSVOF?

    Liquid jet surface and break-up near the jet nozzle

    Liquid parcels
    How to implement CLSVOF?
    • Couple LS with VOF within the CFD code FLUENT by
    implementing user defined functions (UDF)
    • UDF
    – User written program that can be linked with FLUENT at
    run-time
    – Programmed in C and FLUENT defined macros
    – User-defined scalar (UDS) transport modeling customize
    FLUENT for level set equation
    How to implement CLSVOF?
    How to implement CLSVOF?

    B. A. Nichita, 2010, PhD thesis, An improved CFD tool to


    simulate adiabatic and diabatic two-phase flows
    How to implement CLSVOF?
    • B.A. Nichita’s test case
    – A bubble rising in a viscous fluid due to gravity

    Level set contour (red) and volume-of-fluid


    contour (green) without coupling between
    LS and VOF (with large loss of mass).

    (t = 0.2s)

    Level set contour (red) and volume-of-fluid


    contour (green) after solving the coupling
    equation between LS and VOF.

    (t = 0.2s)
    How to implement CLSVOF?
    • Setup UDS for LS in FLUENT
    Scalar ø Transport Equation
    ∂ρφ ~
    + ∇ ⋅ ( ρUφ ) = 0
    ∂t
    ∂ρφ
    – Unsteady term
    ∂t
    – Convection term ~
    ∇ ⋅ ( ρUφ )
    – Diffusive term
    0
    – Source term
    0
    ∂φ
    Additional term appear for turbulent flow such as − ρ u ′φ ′ = Γ
    ∂x
    j t
    j
    How to implement CLSVOF?
    • Setup UDS for LS in FLUENT
    – Set number of UDS
    – Set UDS terms (Appendix A)
    • DEFINE_UDS_UNSTEADY
    – Get unsteady term for scalar equation
    • DEFINE_UDS_FLUX
    – Returns user specified flux
    • DEFINE_DIFFUSIVITY
    – Returns user diffusion coefficient (Γ)
    • DEFINE_SOURCE
    – Set UDS boundary conditions
    • Constant
    • UDF: DEFINE_PROFILE
    Appendix Equations
    • Incompressible two-phase flow
    ∇ ⋅U = 0
    ∇p 1 1
    U + U ⋅ ∇U = − + ∇ ⋅ (2µ (φ ) D ) − γκ (φ )∇H (φ ) + F
    t
    ρ (φ ) ρ (φ ) ρ (φ )
    φ + U ⋅ ∇φ = 0
    t

    F + ∇ ⋅ (UF ) = 0
    t

    Density ρ(Ф), viscosity μ (Ф), and curvature κ (Ф) are written as,
    ρ (φ ) = ρ (1 − H (φ )) + ρ H (φ )
    g l

    µ (φ ) = µ (1 − H (φ )) + µ H (φ )
    g l

    ∇φ
    κ (φ ) = ∇ ⋅
    ∇φ
    D is defined as the rate of deformation tensor
    D = (∇U ) + (∇U ) T
    Appendix Equations
    • Incompressible two-phase flow
    The surface tension force is
    1
    γκ (φ )∇H (φ )
    ρ (φ )
    where H is the Heaviside function,
    1 if φ > 0
    H (φ ) = 
    0 otherwise.
    F will be initialized in each computational cell Ωij
    1
    F = ∫ H (φ ( r , z ,0))rdrdz
    ∆r∆z
    ij Ω ij

    where Ωij is
    Ω = (r , z ) r ≤ r ≤ r
    ij i i +1
    and z ≤ z ≤ z
    j j +1
    Appendix Equations
    • Re-Initialization
    – Reinitialize ф

    where w is the characteristic velocity pointing outward from the free surface

    The sign function is

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