A three-dimensional Cartesian cut-cell/volume-of-fluid method for two-phase flows with moving bodies

Xie, Zhihua ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5180-8427 and Stoesser, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-9793 2020. A three-dimensional Cartesian cut-cell/volume-of-fluid method for two-phase flows with moving bodies. Journal of Computational Physics 416 , 109536. 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109536

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Abstract

A three-dimensional Cartesian cut-cell method for the large-eddy simulation of two-phase flows with moving bodies is presented in this study, which combines a volume-of-fluid method to capture the air-water interface and a moving body algorithm on a stationary, non-uniform, staggered, Cartesian grid. The filtered Navier–Stokes equations are discretised using the finite volume method with the PISO algorithm for velocity-pressure coupling and the dynamic Smagorinsky subgrid-scale model is employed to compute the effect of the unresolved (subgrid) scales of turbulence on the large scales. In the present study, the small cut-cells are unmodified and due to the use of an implicit time integration no instabilities occur during the computations. The versatility and robustness of the present two-phase flow model is illustrated via various two- and three-dimensional flow problems with fixed/moving bodies, such as dambreak flows with and without a square cylinder, a moving cylinder in a quiescent fluid, dambreak flow over a wet bed with a moving gate, water entry and exist of a circular cylinder, and landside-generated waves. Good agreement is obtained between the numerical results and the corresponding experimental measurements.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0021-9991
Funders:	Royal Society
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 May 2020
Date of Acceptance:	4 May 2020
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 15:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/131503

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