A Fixed-Mesh Approach for Gas-Liquid-Rigid Interaction Problems

Abstract

A fixed-mesh approach has been developed to facilitate predicting a certain class of gas-liquid-rigid interaction problems. All the basic equations are discretized on a Cartesian grid in a finite-difference manner. The Volume-Of-Fluid and Boundary Data Immersion methods are employed to treat the gas-liquid and fluid-rigid interfaces, respectively. A hybrid OpenMP- MPI approach is adopted for parallel computing. The developed code is validated through comparisons with experiments of an oil-air flow driven by a rotating disk with holes. The simulated results demonstrate the capability in capturing the velocity distributions.