A hybrid interface tracking -- level set technique for multiphase flow with soluble surfactant

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2018.01.010zbMATH Open1383.76069arXiv1702.02478OpenAlexW2783233093MaRDI QIDQ1709035FDOQ1709035

Authors: Seungwon Shin, Jalel Chergui, D. Juric, Lyes Kahouadji, O. K. Matar, R. V. Craster 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We adapt and extend a formulation for soluble surfactant transport in multiphase flows recently presented by Muradoglu & Tryggvason (JCP 274 (2014) 737-757) to the context of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (Shin et al. IJNMF 60 (2009) 753-778) which is a hybrid method that combines the advantages of the Front-tracking and Level Set methods. Particularly close attention is paid to the formulation and numerical implementation of the surface gradients of surfactant concentration and surface tension. Various benchmark tests are performed to demonstrate the accuracy of different elements of the algorithm. To verify surfactant mass conservation, values for surfactant diffusion along the interface are compared with the exact solution for the problem of uniform expansion of a sphere. The numerical implementation of the discontinuous boundary condition for the source term in the bulk concentration is compared with the approximate solution. Surface tension forces are tested for Marangoni drop translation. Our numerical results for drop deformation in simple shear are compared with experiments and results from previous simulations. All benchmarking tests compare well with existing data thus providing confidence that our adapted LCRM formulation for surfactant advection and diffusion is accurate and effective in three-dimensional multiphase flows. We also demonstrate that this approach applies easily to massively parallel simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02478

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationmultiphase flowsoluble surfactantfront-tracking method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

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