EFFECTS OF NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF VISCOUS AND SURFACE TENSION FORCES ON PREDICTED INTERFACE MOTION
EFFECTS OF NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF VISCOUS AND SURFACE TENSION FORCES ON PREDICTED INTERFACE MOTION
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2012
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K. Hayashi;A. Tomiyama
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K. Hayashi;A. Tomiyama
Effects of treatment of viscous and surface tension forces on predictions of interface motion are investigated. The pressure and the normal component of surface tension force are calculated by using a ghost fluid method. The viscous and tangential surface tension forces are treated in two different ways: one is a smeared-out interface method and the other is the ghost fluid method (GFM). Linear shear flows, a single oscillating drop and a sinusoidal wave are simulated by using these methods. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) the velocity gradients in the two-phases near the interface are well predicted by using GFM, whereas the smeared-out interface method gives large errors, (2) the viscous damping of drop shape oscillation is overestimated by the smeared-out interface method, (3) both GFM and smeared-out interface method can qualitatively predict the damping of surface tension wave due to surfactant, whereas the latter method is apt to be numerically unstable. INTRODUCTION Level set methods (Sussman et al., 1994) have been widely used for simulating multiphase flows such as bubbles, drops, interfacial waves and so on. The interface is modeled as a finite-thickness smeared-out interface in the original level set method. Therefore the surface tension force is calculated as a body force, by which the distribution of pressure is also smeared and a large spurious current is caused in the vicinity of interface. A sharp interface method for level set methods, which is known as a ghost fluid method (Kang et al., 2000), recently attracts much attention since this method can accurately deal with the jumps of physical quantities at the interface. Most of recent level set methods utilize the ghost fluid method, GFM, to deal with the jumps of physical quantities, i.e. pressure, density and so on (Tanguy et al., 2007; Teigen et al., 2010; Bjorklund, 2009), whereas the viscous stress is often treated by means of the smeared-out interface method (Gibou et al., 2007; Tong & Wang, 2007; Yang & Stern, 2007; Desjardins et al., 2008; Hayashi & Tomiyama, 2012a, 2012b). This is mainly because the numerical implementation of the ghost fluid method in the viscous stress is more complicated compared with the smeared-out interface method. However accurate evaluation of the surface tension force and viscous stress at the interface is of great importance when the jump condition for the viscous stress includes the Marangoni force caused by the presence of surfactant, which drastically damps the surface tension wave. Simulations of the motions of clean and contaminated interfaces are, therefore, carried out using the abovementioned methods, i.e., the ghost fluid and smeared-out interface methods, to demonstrate how it is important to accurately evaluate the viscous and surface tension forces at the interface for obtaining good numerical predictions of the interface motion. NUMERICAL METHOD Level Set Method The interface is tracked by solving the following level set equation (Sussman et al., 1994): 0 = φ ∇ ⋅ + ∂ φ ∂ V t (1) where t is the time, V the velocity, and φ the level set function. The interface is represented by the zero-level set, φ = 0. The unit normal to the interface and the curvature are given by