Original scientific paper Tsunami is one of the serious natural disasters in the world, which produce huge horizontal thrust on costal buildings, resulting in a large number of houses collapsed instantaneously, causing serious casualties and economic losses. In this paper, based on support from the hydrodynamic software FLOW-3D, the method of Volume of Fluid (VOF) is utilized to capture free in...

The numerical investigation of drop deformation and breakup under simple shear is a basis for theoretical studies of emulsification and mixing. A three-dimensional Couette flow without gravity is considered; the matrix liquid is bounded at the top and bottom by two parallel horizontal plates and the liquid drop is suspended there. The boundaries move horizontally, and generate a simple shear fl...

In the present paper, a finite volume method (FVM) based software is used in the simulation of simulation of non Newtonian flow between two parallel plates and flip chip packaging are presented. 3D of two parallel plates with different gap heights are developed and simulated by Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) code, FLUENT 6.3.26. The power law equation was used to describe the NonNewtonian be...

The application of a novel turbulent inflow generator is presented using a 3D Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) method. For simulation the in-house 3D CFD program Free Surface 3D (FS3D) is applied, which solves the incompressible Navier Stokes Equations for flows with free surfaces using a Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) technique. Three different numerical setups are presented, demonstrating the wide ra...

A comparative performance analysis of the CFD platforms OpenFOAM and FLOW-3D is presented, focusing on a 3D swirling turbulent flow: a steady hydraulic jump at low Reynolds number. Turbulence is treated using RANS approach RNG k-ε. A Volume Of Fluid (VOF) method is used to track the airewater interface, consequently aeration is modeled using an EulerianeEulerian approach. Structured meshes of c...

The Navier–Stokes equations for unsteady, incompressible, viscous fluids in the axisymmetric coordinate system are solved using a control volume method. The volume-of-fluid (VOF) technique is used to track the free-surface of the liquid. Model predictions are in good agreement with experimental measurements. It is found that the dynamic processes after impact are sensitive to the initial drople...

Vapor-venting microchannel heat exchangers are promising because they address the problems of high pressure drop, flow instability, and local dryout that are common in conventional two-phase microchannel heat sinks. We present a 3D numerical simulation of the vapor-venting process in a rectangular microchannel bounded on one side by a hydrophobic porous membrane for phase-separation. The simula...

R. Zagórski, S. Golak – Silesian University of Technical, Department of Management and Computer Science, Katowice, Poland The paper deals with computer simulation of gravity casting of the metal matrix composites reinforced with ceramics (MMC) into sand mold . The subject of our int erest is aluminum matrix c omposite (AlMMC) reinforced with c eramic particles i.e. silicon carbide SiC and glass...

 A VOF-CSF model is developed to model slug flow in capillary channels  Non-uniform mesh is employed to reduce the simulation expenses  A moving reference frame is set moving along or opposite to the gas slug to eliminate the spurious current  The calculated liquid film thickness, slug velocity, and circulation flow ahead the gas slug are all agree very well with literatures Approach and Im...