An advanced Volume-of-Fluid or VOF procedure for locally conservative reconstruction of multi-material interfaces based on volume fraction information in cells of an unstructured mesh is presented in this paper. The procedure employs improved neighbor definitions and topological consistency checks of the interface for computing a more accurate interface approximation. Comparison with previously...

In this study we implemented the network simulation techniques using macromodels (lumped models) for capillary driven flows in microfluidic networks. The flow characteristics in a flow junction, such as meniscus stretching and bifurcation, were studied and their effects on filling time as well as pressure drop were explored for various network configurations. The results from the network simula...

The breakup dynamics of a capillary bridge on hydrophobic stripe between two hydrophilic stripes is studied experimentally and numerically using direct numerical simulations. formed from an evaporating water droplet wetting three neighboring chemically patterned surface. By considering the process in phase space representation, can be evaluated without uncertainty determining precise time. simu...

The paper describes a novel implementation of the piecewise linear interface-capturing volume-of-fluid method (PLIC-VOF) in axisymmetric cylindrical coordinates. principal innovative feature involved this work is that both forward and inverse reconstruction problems are solved analytically, resulting an appreciable speed-up computing time comparison with iterative approach. All formulae introdu...

A penalization approach is presented to simulate two-phase flow in the presence of immersed solid boundaries so as to consider highly complex objects such as porous media microstructures. Based on the standard Volume-Of-Fluid formulation, the method takes into account the wettability effects which may occur on the surface of immersed solid boundaries. A spatial shift between the no-slip and the...

In this paper, an HLLC-type contact preserving Riemann solver for incompressible two-phase flows using the artificial compressibility formulation is presented. This improvement over previous HLLC-VOF (Bhat and Mandal, 2019). work, unlike formulation, variation of volume fraction taken into account when calculating eigenvalues eigenvectors. Hence, equations intermediate states wave speed are clo...

In this work we discuss a way to compute the impact of free-surface flow on nonlinear structures. The approach chosen rely on a partitioned strategy that allows to solve strongly coupled fluid-structure interaction problem. It is then possible to re-use existing and validated strategy for each sub-problem. The structure is formulated in a Lagrangian way and solved by the finite element method. ...

Nano imprint lithography(NIL) is a cost-efficient, highthroughput processing technique to transfer nano-scale patterns onto thin polymer films. Polymers used as the resist include UV cured resins as well as thermoplastics such as polymethyl-methacrylate(PMMA). In this study, an analytic investigation was performed for the NIL process of transferring nano scale patterns onto polymeric films. Pro...

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...

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...