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20192026
most citedIndustrial scale large eddy simulations (LES) with adaptive octree meshes using immersogeometric analysis

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14 papers

math.NA2026

A Helmholtz-Leray projection method with variational multiscale stabilization for the Navier-Stokes equations

Biswajit Khara, Suresh Murugaiyan, Makrand Khanwale +1

The Galerkin finite element formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations presents two principal challenges: maintaining stable velocity-pressure coupling and controlli…

math.NA2026

Field conserving adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) scheme on massively parallel adaptive octree meshes

Kumar Saurabh, Makrand A. Khanwale, Masado Ishii +2

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is widely used to efficiently resolve localized features in time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) by selectively refining and coarseni…

physics.flu-dyn2025

A Semi-Implicit Variational Multiscale Formulation for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations via Exact Adjoint Linearization

Biswajit Khara, Suresh Murugaiyan, Suriya Dhakshinamoorthy +3

A semi-implicit, residual-based variational multiscale (VMS) formulation is developed for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The convection term is linearized using an ext…

physics.flu-dyn2024

A mass-conserving contact line treatment for second-order conservative phase field methods based on the generalized Navier boundary condition

Reed L. Brown, Shahab Mirjalili, Makrand A. Khanwale +1

A mass-conserving contact line treatment for second-order conservative phase field methods is presented and applied to the conservative diffuse interface (CDI) model. The treatment…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Modeling and simulations of high-density two-phase flows using projection-based Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations

Ali Rabeh, Makrand A. Khanwale, John J. Lee +1

Accurately modeling the dynamics of high-density ratio () two-phase flows is important for many material science and manufacturing applications. This work consid…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 8 cited

Effect of interpolation kernels and grid refinement on two way-coupled point-particle simulations

Nathan A. Keane, Sourabh V. Apte, Suhas S. Jain +1

The predictive capability of two way--coupled point-particle Euler-Lagrange model in accurately capturing particle-flow interactions under grid refinement, wherein the particle siz…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

Direct numerical simulation of electrokinetic transport phenomena in fluids: variational multi-scale stabilization and octree-based mesh refinement

Sungu Kim, Kumar Saurabh, Makrand A. Khanwale +3

Computational modeling of charged species transport has enabled the analysis, design, and optimization of a diverse array of electrochemical and electrokinetic devices. These syste…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 2 cited

Breakup dynamics in primary jet atomization using mesh- and interface- refined Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes

Makrand A. Khanwale, Kumar Saurabh, Masado Ishii +2

We present a technique to perform interface-resolved simulations of complex breakup dynamics in two-phase flows using the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. The method dynamica…

physics.comp-ph2022

Scalable adaptive algorithms for next-generation multiphase flow simulations

Kumar Saurabh, Masado Ishii, Makrand A. Khanwale +2

High-fidelity flow simulations are indispensable when analyzing systems exhibiting multiphase flow phenomena. The accuracy of multiphase flow simulations is strongly contingent upo…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 23 cited

Assessment of an energy-based surface tension model for simulation of two-phase flows using second-order phase field methods

Shahab Mirjalili, Makrand A Khanwale, Ali Mani

Second-order phase field models have emerged as an attractive option for capturing the advection of interfaces in two-phase flows. Prior to these, state-of-the-art models based on…

math.NA2021★ 25 cited

A projection-based, semi-implicit time-stepping approach for the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations on adaptive octree meshes

Makrand A. Khanwale, Kumar Saurabh, Masado Ishii +3

The Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system provides a computationally tractable model that can be used to effectively capture interfacial dynamics in two-phase fluid flows. In t…

math.NA2020★ 27 cited

A fully-coupled framework for solving Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations: Second-order, energy-stable numerical methods on adaptive octree based meshes

Makrand A Khanwale, Kumar Saurabh, Milinda Fernando +4

We present a fully-coupled, implicit-in-time framework for solving a thermodynamically-consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system that models two-phase flows. In this work, we e…

math.NA2020★ 35 cited

Industrial scale large eddy simulations (LES) with adaptive octree meshes using immersogeometric analysis

Kumar Saurabh, Boshun Gao, Milinda Fernando +7

We present a variant of the immersed boundary method integrated with octree meshes for highly efficient and accurate Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of flows around complex geometries…

math.NA2019★ 31 cited

Simulating two-phase flows with thermodynamically consistent energy stable Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations on parallel adaptive octree based meshes

Makrand A Khanwale, Alec D. Lofquist, Hari Sundar +2

We report on simulations of two-phase flows with deforming interfaces at various density contrasts by solving thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. An…