Assessment of diffuse-interface methods for compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids

Abstract

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook (2007), Lele (2019), in which artificial diffusion terms are added to the individual phase mass fraction transport equations and are coupled with the other conservation equations. The second method is the gradient-form approach that is based on the quasi-conservative method of Shukla et al. (2010), in which the diffusion and sharpening terms (together called regularization terms) are added to the individual phase volume fraction transport equations and are coupled with the other conservation equations (Tiwari et al., 2013). The third approach is the divergence-form approach that is based on the fully conservative method of Jain et al. ( 2020), in which the regularization terms are added to the individual phase volume fraction transport equations and are coupled with the other conservation equations. In the present study, all three diffuse-interface methods are used in conjunction with a fourequation, multicomponent mixture model, in which pressure and temperature equilibria are assumed among the various phases.The primary objective of this work is to compare these three methods in terms of their ability to: maintain constant interface thickness throughout the simulation; conserve mass, momentum, and energy; and maintain accurate interface shape for long-time integration. The second objective of this work is to consistently extend these methods to model interfaces between solid materials with strength. To assess and compare the methods, they are used to simulate a wide variety of problems, including (1) advection of an air bubble in water, (2) shock interaction with a helium bubble in air, (3) shock interaction and the collapse of an air bubble in water, and (4) Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a copper-aluminum interface. The current work focuses on comparing these methods in the limit of relatively coarse grid resolution, which illustrates the true performance of these methods. This is because it is rarely practical to use hundreds of grid points to resolve a single bubble or drop in large-scale simulations of engineering interest.

A seven-equation diffused interface method for resolved multiphase flows

“…Considering this, an interface compression scheme is borrowed here [54] which works independently of the other parts of the solver. Jain et al [71] recently conducted a one-to-one comparison of various interface compression techniques and concluded that the choice would often depend on the modeling problem of interest. Their coupling with the seven-equation model can be considered in the future, but it is not addressed here.…”