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A new curvature technique calculation for surface tension contribution in PLIC-VOF method

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The volume of fluid (VOF) methods have been used for numerous numerical simulations. Among these techniques used to define the moving interface, the piecewise linear interface reconstruction (PLIC-VOF) is one of the most accurate. A study of the superficial tension impact on two-phase flow with free surface is presented. A new method based on direct staggered grid is developped to include surface tension in PLIC-VOF. The new numerical curvature calculation method doesn't need smoothed colour function and leads to less “spurious current”. This technique is applied to the calculus of surface tension force in the case of the rise of air bubble in viscous liquid and the fall of liquid drop in the same liquid on free surface. Droplets, thin layer and capillarity waves are observed after the free surface rupture for different Bond number. The influence of surface tension calculus is then obvioused and when the drop hit the free surface, wavelets propagate toward the virtual boundaries imposed.

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    J-M. Martinez, X. Chesneau & B. Zeghmati

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Martinez, JM., Chesneau, X. & Zeghmati, B. A new curvature technique calculation for surface tension contribution in PLIC-VOF method. Comput Mech 37, 182–193 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-005-0689-y

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