A comprehensive simulation of solidification/melting processes requires the simultaneous representation of free surface fluid flow, heat transfer, phase change, non-linear solid mechanics and, possibly, electromagnetics together with their interactions in what is now referred to as ’multi-physics’ simulation. A 3D computational procedure and software tool, PHYSICA, embedding the above multi-phy...

This paper is concerned with the simultaneous flow of liquid water and gaseous reactants in mini-channels of a proton exchange membrane PEM) fuel cell. Envisaging the mini-channels as structured and ordered porous media, we develop a continuum model of two-phase channel ow based on two-phase Darcy’s law and the M2 formalism, which allow estimate of the parameters key to fuel cell operation such...

We consider a multi-dimensional triangular system of conservation laws. This system arises as a model of three-phase flow in porous media and includes multi-dimensional conservation laws with discontinuous coefficients as a special case. The system is neither strictly hyperbolic nor symmetric. We propose an Engquist-Osher type scheme for this system and show that the approximate solutions gener...

This paper presents an all-Mach method for two-phase inviscid flow in the presence of surface tension. A modified version Hartens–Lax–van Leer Contact (HLLC) solver is developed and combined first time with a widely used volume-of-fluid (VoF) method: compressive interface capturing scheme arbitrary meshes (CICSAM). novel combination yields both HLLC shock as well accurate liquid–gas tracking ch...

Although two-phase flow is frequently encountered in various location of the process plants, there is no a general accepted and verified two-phase flow model that may be used to size lines for such conditions. An obvious example is condensate water return lines. The API method that used in this study is based on the homogeneous equilibrium flow assumption, that is, equal velocity and equal temp...

the produced liquid water in cathode catalyst layer (ccl) has significant effect on the operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (pemfc). to investigate this effect, the transport of oxygen in ccl in the presence of immiscible liquid water is studied applying a two-dimensional pore scale model. the ccl was reconstructed as an agglomerated system. to explore the wettability effects, diffe...