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Towards accurate modeling of moving contact lines
Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för beräkningsvetenskap.ORCID iD: 0009-0005-3002-6986
2015 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The present thesis treats the numerical simulation of immiscible incompressible two-phase flows with moving contact lines. The conventional Navier–Stokes equations combined with a no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at the contact line. The singularity in the model can be avoided by allowing the contact line to slip. Implementing slip conditions in an accurate way is not straight-forward and different regularization techniques exist where ad-hoc procedures are common. This thesis presents the first steps in developing the macroscopic part of an accurate multiscale model for a moving contact line problem in two space dimensions. It is assumed that a micro model has been used to determine a relation between the contact angle and the contact line velocity. An intermediate region is introduced where an analytical expression for the velocity field exists, assuming the solid wall is perfectly flat. This expression is used to implement boundary conditions for the moving contact line, at the macroscopic scale, along a fictitious boundary located a small distance away from the physical boundary. Model problems where the shape of the interface is constant throughout the simulation are introduced. For these problems, experiments show that the errors in the resulting contact line velocities converge with the grid size h at a rate of convergence p ≈ 2. Further, an analytical expression for the velocity field in the intermediate region for the case with a curved solid wall is derived. The derivation is based on perturbation analysis.

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Uppsala University , 2015.
National Category
Computational Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-44959OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-44959DiVA, id: diva2:1880976
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eSSENCEAvailable from: 2024-07-02 Created: 2024-07-02 Last updated: 2024-08-12Bibliographically approved
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1. Towards accurate modeling of moving contact lines
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2015 (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Computational Mathematics
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urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-44962 (URN)10.48550/arXiv.1510.06639 (DOI)
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eSSENCE
Available from: 2015-10-21 Created: 2024-07-02 Last updated: 2024-08-12Bibliographically approved
2. A hydrodynamic model of movement of a contact line over a curved wall
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A hydrodynamic model of movement of a contact line over a curved wall
2019 (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Computational Mathematics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-44961 (URN)
Available from: 2019-05-21 Created: 2024-07-02 Last updated: 2024-08-12Bibliographically approved
3. A fast massively parallel two-phase flow solver for microfluidic chip simulation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A fast massively parallel two-phase flow solver for microfluidic chip simulation
2016 (English)In: The international journal of high performance computing applications, ISSN 1094-3420, E-ISSN 1741-2846, Vol. 32, no 2, p. 266-287Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This work presents a parallel finite element solver of incompressible two-phase flow targeting large-scale simulations of three-dimensional dynamics in high-throughput microfluidic separation devices. The method relies on a conservative level set formulation for representing the fluid-fluid interface and uses adaptive mesh refinement on forests of octrees. An implicit time stepping with efficient block solvers for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations discretized with Taylor–Hood and augmented Taylor–Hood finite elements is presented. A matrix-free implementation is used that reduces the solution time for the Navier–Stokes system by a factor of approximately three compared to the best matrix-based algorithms. Scalability of the chosen algorithms up to 32,768 cores and a billion degrees of freedom is shown.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage, 2016
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-44949 (URN)10.1177/1094342016671790 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-06-25 Created: 2024-06-25 Last updated: 2024-08-12Bibliographically approved

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