Dropwise condensation has superior heat transfer efficiency than filmwise condensation; however condensate evacuation from the surface still remains a significant technological challenge. The process of droplets jumping, against adhesive forces, from a solid surface upon coalescence has been studied using both experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis. Both Lattice Boltzmann ...

Numerical investigation of heat transfer during drop impact, spreading, recoil, and rebound/break up has been carried out for water droplets with and without surfactant additives. The numerical model is based on a finite volume formulation on a structured grid. A volume-of-fluid (VOF) technique is used to track the deforming liquid-air interface. Comparisons between the numerical results and ex...

The coupling motion of heave, pitch and roll of intact ship and damaged ship in waves, and the flow of flood water in damaged tank have been simulated based on viscous theory. The calculation model is a 29000 t tanker model moving at a constant speed with damaged tank in midship area. Three cosine waves including head waves, beam waves and oblique waves are simulated by boundary input method re...

The capillary time-step constraint is the dominant limitation on applicable in many simulations of interfacial flows with surface tension and, consequently, governs execution time these simulations. We propose a fully-coupled pressure-based algorithm based an algebraic Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method conjunction implicit linearised treatment that can breach constraint. advection interface solved t...

In this study, the primary breakup of a high-speed diesel jet is investigated using CFD methodology that combines an LES model with VOF technique for free surface capture. Inner-nozzle turbulence and cavitation are simplified as sinusoidal radial velocity given amplitude frequency. The ligament droplet formation process captured, liquid disturbed by velocity, umbrella-shaped crests created. Mea...

the purpose of this study is numerical modeling of temperature variation of phases in a two phase regime in fluidized bed dryers including particles belonging to group d of geldart classification. the mass transfer between phases is not taken into consideration in this modeling which has been assumed in three- dimensional, unsteady, and two-phase regime.to verify the modeling we consider the do...

in this paper wave transformation in a submerged sloped breakwater and its hydraulic performance was simulated by developing a numerical model in fortran. the code was established by combining porous flow and a two-phase model using vof method. modified navier-stokes and k-ε equations implemented to the model to simulate the flow in porous media. cut cell method was modified to simulate fluid t...

Breaking wave impacts on a monopile at 20 m depth are computed with a VOF (Volume Of Fluid) method. The impacting waves are generated by the second-order focused wave group technique, to obtain waves that break at the position of the monopile. The subsequent impact from the vertical run-up flow on a horizontal inspection platform is computed for five different platform levels. The computational...