Application of the level set method for multi-phase flow computation in fusion engineering

X-Y. Luo, M-J. Ni, A. Ying, M. Abdou
2006 Fusion engineering and design  
Numerical simulation of multi-phase flow is essential to evaluate the feasibility of a liquid protection scheme for the power plant chamber. The level set method is one of the best methods for computing and analyzing the motion of interface among the multi-phase flow. This paper presents a general formula for the second-order projection method combined with the level set method to simulate unsteady incompressible multi-phase flow with/out phase change flow encountered in fusion science and
more » ... eering. The third-order ENO scheme and second-order semi-implicit Crank-Nicholson scheme is used to update the convective and diffusion term. The numerical results show this method can handle the complex deformation of the interface and the effect of liquid-vapor phase change will be included in the future work.
doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2005.09.051 fatcat:6dtvdh75brhedlxfdu653zmhwq