TY - JOUR
T1 - Preconditioned Navier-Stokes method for two-phase flows with application to cavitation prediction
AU - Kunz, Robert F.
AU - Boger, David A.
AU - Stinebring, David R.
AU - Chyczewski, Thomas S.
AU - Lindau, Jules W.
AU - Gibeling, Howard J.
AU - Venkateswaran, Sankaran
AU - Govindan, T. R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Office of Naval Research, contract # N00014-98-1-0143, with Mr. James Fein and Dr. Kam Ng as contract monitors. The authors acknowledge Brett Siebert, Charles Merkle and Phil Buelow with whom several conversations benefited the present work. This work was supported in part by a grant of HPC resources from the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and in part by a grant of SGI Origin 2000 HPC time from the DoD HPC Center, Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - An implicit algorithm for the computation of viscous two-phase flows is presented in this paper. The baseline differential equation system is the multi-phase Navier-Stokes equations, comprised of the mixture volume, mixture momentum and constituent volume fraction equations. Though further generalization is straightforward, a three-species formulation is pursued here, which separately accounts for the liquid and vapor (which exchange mass) as well as a non-condensable gas field. The implicit method developed here employs a dual-time, preconditioned, three-dimensional algorithm, with multi-block and parallel execution capabilities. Time-derivative preconditioning is employed to ensure well-conditioned eigenvalues, which is important for the computational efficiency of the method. Special care is taken to ensure that the resulting eigensystem is independent of the density ratio and the local volume fraction, which renders the scheme well-suited to high density ratio, phase-separated two-fluid flows characteristic of many cavitating and boiling systems. To demonstrate the capabilities of the scheme, several two- and three-dimensional examples are presented.
AB - An implicit algorithm for the computation of viscous two-phase flows is presented in this paper. The baseline differential equation system is the multi-phase Navier-Stokes equations, comprised of the mixture volume, mixture momentum and constituent volume fraction equations. Though further generalization is straightforward, a three-species formulation is pursued here, which separately accounts for the liquid and vapor (which exchange mass) as well as a non-condensable gas field. The implicit method developed here employs a dual-time, preconditioned, three-dimensional algorithm, with multi-block and parallel execution capabilities. Time-derivative preconditioning is employed to ensure well-conditioned eigenvalues, which is important for the computational efficiency of the method. Special care is taken to ensure that the resulting eigensystem is independent of the density ratio and the local volume fraction, which renders the scheme well-suited to high density ratio, phase-separated two-fluid flows characteristic of many cavitating and boiling systems. To demonstrate the capabilities of the scheme, several two- and three-dimensional examples are presented.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033632615
SN - 0151-9107
VL - 25
SP - 849
EP - 875
JO - Annales de Chimie: Science des Materiaux
JF - Annales de Chimie: Science des Materiaux
IS - 3
ER -