- Finite Volume/Finite Area Interface-Tracking Method for Two-Phase Flows with Fluid Interfaces Influenced by Surfactant

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Pivello ◽  
M.M. Villar ◽  
R. Serfaty ◽  
A.M. Roma ◽  
A. Silveira-Neto

2020 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 104715
Author(s):  
Rihua Yang ◽  
Heng Li ◽  
Aiming Yang

Author(s):  
Naoki Takada

For interface-tracking simulation of two-phase flows in various micro-fluidics devices, the applicability of two versions of Navier-Stokes phase-field method (NS-PFM) was examined, combining NS equations for a continuous fluid with a diffuse-interface model based on the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard free-energy theory. Through the numerical simulations, the following major findings were obtained: (1) The first version of NS-PFM gives good predictions of interfacial shapes and motions in an incompressible, isothermal two-phase fluid with high density ratio on solid surface with heterogeneous wettability. (2) The second version successfully captures liquid-vapor motions with heat and mass transfer across interfaces in phase change of a non-ideal fluid around the critical point.


Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Yoshida ◽  
Takuji Nagayoshi ◽  
Kazuyuki Takase ◽  
Hajime Akimoto

Thermal-hydraulic design of the current boiling water reactor (BWR) is performed by correlations with empirical results of actual-size tests. Then, for the Innovative Water Reactor for Flexible Fuel Cycle (FLWR) core, an actual size test that simulates its design is required to confirm or modify the correlations. Development of a method that enables the thermal-hydraulic design of nuclear rectors without these actual size tests is desired, because these tests take a long time and entail great cost. For this reason we developed an advanced thermal-hydraulic design method for FLWRs using innovative two-phase flow simulation technology. In this study, detailed two-phase flow simulation code using advanced interface tracking method: TPFIT is developed to get the detailed information of the two-phase flow. In this paper, firstly, we tried to verify the TPFIT code comparing with the existing 2-channel air-water mixing experimental results. Secondary, the TPFIT code was applied to simulation of steamwater two-phase flow in modeled two subchannels of current BWRs rod bundle. The fluid mixing was observed at a gap between the subchannels. The existing two-phase flow correlation for fluid mixing is evaluated using detailed numerical simulation data. From the data, pressure difference between fluid channels is responsible for the fluid mixing, and effects of the time averaged and fluctuating pressure difference must be incorporated in the two-phase flow correlation for fluid mixing.


Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Yoshida ◽  
Shinichiro Uesawa

Abstract The radioactive aerosol removal equipment is used as one of the safety systems of nuclear reactors. In this equipment, microparticles of aerosol are removed through gas-liquid interfaces of two-phase flow. The mechanism related to the removal of microparticles through the gas-liquid interface is not precise; a numerical evaluation method of performance of aerosol removal equipment is not realized. Then, we have started to construct a numerical simulation method to simulate the removal of microparticles through gas-liquid interfaces. In this simulation method, a detailed two-phase flow simulation code TPFIT is used as the basis of this method. TPFIT adopts an advanced interface tracking method and can simulate interface movement and deformation directly. Also, to simulate the movement of particles, the Lagrangian particle tracking method is incorporated. By combining the interface tracking method, and the Lagrangian particle tracking method, the interaction between interfaces and microparticles can be simulated in detail. To solve the Lagrangian equations of particles, fluid properties and fluid velocity surrounding aerosol particles are evaluated by considering the relative position of particles and gas-liquid interface, to simulate particle movement near the interface. In this paper, we show an outline and preliminary results of this simulation method.


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