For flow conduits with mild slope and considerably large vertical curvatures the hydrostatic distribution of the pressure may be used for design proposes. However, for the spillway chutes actual pressure load over the steep slope beds with small vertical curvatures may differ from the hydrostatic pressure values. The differences in pressure load on curved bed chutes are mainly because of the ce...

This article presents a complementary experimental and computational investigation of the effect of viscosity and flowrate on the dynamics of drop formation in the dripping mode. In contrast to previous studies, numerical simulations are performedwith two popular commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) packages, CFX and FLOW-3D, both of which employ the volume of fluid (VOF) method. Compa...

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...

Abstract Coupled Volume of Fluid and Level Set method inherits the advantages VOF methods, takes function as main body to simulate fluid motion interface, corrects normal direction interface through function, so effectively overcome shortcomings two methods. The numerical simulation example multi vortex shear flow field shows that this can ensure better accuracy moving higher calculation effici...

The rise and deformation of a gas bubble in an otherwise stationary liquid contained in a closed, right vertical cylinder is investigated using a modified volume-of-fluid (VOF) method incorporating surface tension stresses. Starting from a perfectly spherical bubble which is initially at rest, the upward motion of the bubble in a gravitational field is studied by tracking the liquid–gas interfa...

Large-eddy simulations have been conducted for two-phase flow (water and air) in a hydrocyclone using Two-Fluid (Euler–Euler) Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) models. Subgrid stresses are modeled dynamic eddy–viscosity model, results compared to those the Smagorinsky model. The effects of grid resolutions on mean turbulence statistics thoroughly investigated. Five block-structured grids 0.72, 1.47, 2.4, 3...

We develop, test and apply a volume of fluid (VOF) type code for the direct numerical simulation of two-fluid configurations of magnetic fluids with dynamic interfaces. Equilibrium magnetization and linear magnetic material are assumed and uniform imposed magnetic fields are considered, although extensions to nonlinear materials and to fields with spatio-temporal variability are possible. Model...

The purpose of this study was to determine the total resistance and investigate flow around a full-scale kayak. Utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD), it deter-mined how presence rudder affects kayak hydrodynamic performance. To an-alyse flow, computational fluid dynamics based on RANS-VOF solver em-ployed. volume approach k-ω turbulence model were used in two-phase steady simulations hul...

In the present study we propose a charge-conservative scheme to solve twophase electrohydrodynamic (EHD) problems using the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. EHD problems are usually simplified by assuming that the fluids involved are purely dielectric (insulators) or purely conducting. Gases can be considered as perfect insulators but pure dielectric liquids do not exist in nature and insulating l...