Assessment of a non-conservative four-equation multiphase system with phase transition

DOI10.1007/S10915-021-01706-6arXiv2105.12874MaRDI QIDQ6368656FDOQ6368656

Marica Pelanti, P. M. Congedo, R. Abgrall, Paola Bacigaluppi, Julien Carlier

Publication date: 26 May 2021

Abstract: This work focuses on the formulation of a four-equation model for simulating unsteady two-phase mixtures with phase transition and strong discontinuities. The main assumption consists in a homogeneous temperature, pressure and velocity fields between the two phases. Specifically, we present the extension of a residual distribution scheme to solve a four-equation two-phase system with phase transition written in a non-conservative form, i.e. in terms of internal energy instead of the classical total energy approach. This non-conservative formulation allows avoiding the classical oscillations obtained by many approaches, that might appear for the pressure profile across contact discontinuities. The proposed method relies on a Finite Element based Residual Distribution scheme which is designed for an explicit second-order time stepping. We test the non-conservative Residual Distribution scheme on several benchmark problems and assess the results via a cross-validation with the approximated solution obtained via a conservative approach, based on a HLLC scheme. Furthermore, we check both methods for mesh convergence and show the effective robustness on very severe test cases, that involve both problems with and without phase transition.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76Txx) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx)

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