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A unified method for simulating multiphase flows using an exactly mass, momentum, and energy conserving Cell-Integrated SemiLagrangian advection algorithm is presented. The deforming material boundaries are represented using the moment-of-fluid method. The new algorithm uses a semi-implicit pressure update scheme that asymptotically preserves the standard incompressible pressure projection method in the limit of infinite sound speed. The asymptotically preserving attribute makes the new method applicable to compressible and incompressible flows including stiff materials; enabling large time

A novel method for capturing two-dimensional, thin, under-resolved material configurations, known as "filaments," is presented in the context of interface reconstruction. This technique uses a partitioning * Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under contract DMS 1016381.

A moment of fluid method is presented for computing solutions to incompressible multiphase flows in which the number of materials can be greater than two. In this work, the multimaterial moment-of-fluid interface representation technique is applied to simulating surface tension effects at points where three materials meet. The advection terms are solved using a directionally split cell integrated semi-Lagrangian algorithm and the projection method is used to evaluate the pressure gradient force term. The underlying computational grid is a dynamic block structured adaptive grid. The new method is applied to multiphase problems illustrating contact line dynamics, triple junctions, and encapsulation in order to demonstrate its capabilities. Examples are given in 2D, 3D axisymmetric (R-Z), and 3D (X-Y-Z) coordinate systems.

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