Numerical simulations of jet pinching-off and drop formation using an energetic variational phase-field method

Xiaofeng Yang, James J. Feng, Chun Liu, Jie Shen

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Abstract

We study the retraction and pinch-off of a liquid filament and the formation of drops by using an energetic variational phase field model, which describes the motion of mixtures of two incompressible fluids. An efficient and accurate numerical scheme is presented and implemented for the coupled nonlinear systems of Navier-Stokes type linear momentum equations and volume preserving Allen-Cahn type phase equations. Detailed numerical simulations for a Newtonian fluid filament falling into another ambient Newtonian fluid are carried out. The dynamical scaling behavior and the pinch-off behavior, as well as the formation of the consequent satellite droplets are investigated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)417-428
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Computational Physics
Volume218
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Numerical Analysis
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
  • Physics and Astronomy(all)
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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