Numerical resolution of a potential diphasic low Mach number system (Q876432)

The diphasic low Mach number (DLMN) system models non-stationary deformations of an interface separating two immiscible fluids induced by large temperature differences at low Mach numbers. As the divergence of the velocity field is nonzero because of large temperature differences that induce compressibility effects, the DLMN system is a non-homogeneous diphasic incompressible Navier-Stokes system. The author proposes a two-dimensional algorithm for the numerical discretization of the DLMN system in order to capture the interface separating two immiscible fluids on a fixed Cartesian mesh. Numerical results demonstrate that thickness of the artificial mixture area is always bounded by a constant which is of the order of the cell size, even in the case of important deformations of the interface. This is used to conclude that the proposed algorithm is accurate and stable.