An energy stable incompressible multi-phase flow formulation

Abstract

We show that a reformulation of the governing equations for incompressible multi-phase flow in the volume of fluid setting leads to a well defined energy rate. New nonlinear inflow-outflow and solid wall boundary conditions bound the energy rate and lead to an energy estimate in terms of only external data. The new formulation combines perfectly with summation-by-parts operators and leads to provable energy stability.