A penalization approach is presented to simulate two-phase flow in the presence of immersed solid boundaries so as to consider highly complex objects such as porous media microstructures. Based on the standard Volume-Of-Fluid formulation, the method takes into account the wettability effects which may occur on the surface of immersed solid boundaries. A spatial shift between the no-slip and the...

In this study, some important variables in the bioleaching, such as ferric and zinc ions concentration in the liquid phase and velocity field around a single particle were simulated. Volume of fluid (VOF) method was used to predict the mentioned fields in a 3D geometry. Results show that VOF is a successful approach for prediction of velocity and concentration fields. The computational model ha...

A numerical model for local scour with free surface and automatic mesh deformation is constructed and numerical simulation is carried out to compare with experimental results. The k2 model is used to simulate the turbulent flow field. Two interfaces (water and air, water and sediment) in the domain are captured with different approaches. The free surface of the flow is captured by Volume of Flu...

A novel full Eulerian fluid-elastic membrane coupling method on the fixed Cartesian coordinate mesh is proposed within the framework of the volume-of-fluid approach. The present method is based on a full Eulerian fluid-(bulk) structure coupling solver (Sugiyama et al., J. Comput. Phys., 230 (2011) 596–627), with the bulk structure replaced by elastic membranes. In this study, a closed membrane ...

A new VOF Type III-G.S stain was applied to histological sections of different organs and tissues of healthy and pathological larvae, juvenile and adult fish species (Solea senegalensis; Sparus aurata; Diplodus sargo; Pagrus auriga; Argyrosomus regius and Halobatrachus didactylus). In comparison to the original Gutiérrez VOF stain, more acid dyes of contrasting colours and polychromatic/metachr...

Among numerous methods for numerical simulation of two-phase flows, e.g. wave impact to marine vessels and ocean structures, the volume-of-fluid (VoF) method is one that can exactly preserve the volume of each phase [4, 5]. In the VoF method, the volume fraction f of one phase is considered as a reference, and defined in each cell as the ratio of the volume occupied by that phase to the total c...