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most citedUnstructured un-split geometrical Volume-of-Fluid methods -- A review

105 citations · 250 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

DeboRheo v2.0: Improved Robustness for Geometrical VOF Simulations of Viscoelastic Two-Phase Flows

Daulet Izbassarov, Matthias Niethammer, Rahul Subburaj +5

We present DeboRheo v2.0, an unstructured, geometrically unsplit Volume-of-Fluid framework implemented in OpenFOAM for viscoelastic two-phase flows. Version 2.0 improves numerical…

physics.comp-ph2026

acousticHelmholtzFoam: an MPI-parallel unstructured finite-volume solver for frequency-domain acoustics in heterogeneous two-phase media with perfectly matched layers

Chuanchao Xu, Jun Liu, Dieter Bothe +1

acousticHelmholtzFoam is an OpenFOAM application that computes time-harmonic acoustic pressure fields in heterogeneous gas-liquid media on unstructured polyhedral meshes. The compl…

physics.flu-dyn2026

An unstructured finite-volume Helmholtz method with perfectly matched layers for heterogeneous two-phase acoustics

Chuanchao Xu, Jun Liu, Jan Helge Dörsam +4

This paper presents a cell-centred unstructured finite-volume method for time-harmonic two-phase acoustics. A volume-fraction representation supplies density and acoustic compressi…

physics.app-ph2026

Non-intrusive MEMS microphone sensing of acoustic field state in resonant acoustic levitators

Jan H. Dörsam, Maximilian L. Amberg, Sven Suppelt +6

Reliable operation of resonant acoustic levitators requires knowledge of the acoustic field state because the optimum transducer-reflector distance and resonant operating condition…

physics.flu-dyn2024

The initial acceleration of a buoyant spherical bubble revisited

Dieter Bothe, Jun Liu, Pierre-Etienne Druet +3

An analytical derivation of the buoyancy-induced initial acceleration of a spherical gas bubble in a host liquid is presented. The theory makes no assumptions further than applying…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 5 cited

twoPhaseInterTrackFoam: an OpenFOAM module for Arbitrary Lagrangian/Eulerian Interface Tracking with Surfactants and Subgrid-Scale Modeling

Moritz Schwarzmeier, Suraj Raju, Željko Tuković +3

We provide an implementation of the unstructured Finite-Volume Arbitrary Lagrangian / Eulerian (ALE) Interface-Tracking method for simulating incompressible, immiscible two-phase f…

cs.LG2024★ 15 cited

Combining Machine Learning with Computational Fluid Dynamics using OpenFOAM and SmartSim

Tomislav Maric, Mohammed Elwardi Fadeli, Alessandro Rigazzi +2

Combining machine learning (ML) with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) opens many possibilities for improving simulations of technical and natural systems. However, CFD+ML algorit…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Bridging the scales in capillary rise dynamics with complexity-reduced models

Mathis Fricke, Suraj Raju, El Assad Ouro-Koura +5

Dynamic wetting processes inherently manifest as multiscale phenomena. While the capillary length is typically millimeters, solid-liquid interactions occur at the nanometer scale.…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Analytical and numerical validation of a plate-plate tribometer for measuring wall slip

Muhammad Hassan Asghar, Tomislav Maric, Houssem Ben Gozlen +5

We model the Darmstadt Slip Length Tribometer (DSLT), specially designed to measure viscosity and slip length simultaneously for lubrication gaps in the range of approximately 10 m…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 2 cited

An unstructured geometrical un-split VOF method for viscoelastic two-phase flows

Matthias Niethammer, Muhammad Hassan Asghar, Tomislav Maric +1

Since viscoelastic two-phase flows arise in various industrial and natural processes, developing accurate and efficient software for their detailed numerical simulation is a highly…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

A pragmatic workflow for research software engineering in computational science

Tomislav Marić, Dennis Gläser, Jan-Patrick Lehr +4

University research groups in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) generally lack dedicated funding and personnel for Research Software Engineering (RSE), which, combined wi…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 11 cited

Stabilizing the unstructured Volume-of-Fluid method for capillary flows in microstructures using artificial viscosity

Luise Nagel, Anja Lippert, Tobias Tolle +3

Parasitic currents still pose a significant challenge for the investigation of two-phase flow in Lab-on-Chip (LoC) applications with Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) simulations. To counter t…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 5 cited

Numerical wetting benchmarks -- advancing the plicRDF-isoAdvector unstructured Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method

Muhammad Hassan Asghar, Mathis Fricke, Dieter Bothe +1

The numerical simulation of wetting and dewetting of geometrically complex surfaces benefits from unstructured numerical methods because they discretize the domain with second-orde…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 2 cited

A benchmark for surface-tension-driven incompressible two-phase flows

Anja Lippert, Tobias Tolle, Aaron Dörr +1

The Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for simulating incompressible two-phase flows is widespread in academic and commercial simulation software because of its many advantages: a high d…

cs.SE2022★ 22 cited

A Research Software Engineering Workflow for Computational Science and Engineering

Tomislav Maric, Dennis Gläser, Jan-Patrick Lehr +4

University research groups in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) generally lack dedicated funding and personnel for Research Software Engineering (RSE), which, combined wi…

math.NA2022★ 2 cited

A locally signed-distance preserving level set method (SDPLS) for moving interfaces

Mathis Fricke, Tomislav Marić, Aleksandar Vučković +2

It is well-known that the standard level set advection equation does not preserve the signed distance property, which is a desirable property for the level set function representin…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 12 cited

An unstructured finite-volume level set / front tracking method for two-phase flows with large density-ratios

Jun Liu, Tobias Tolle, Dieter Bothe +1

We extend the unstructured LEvel set / froNT tracking (LENT) method for handling two-phase flows with strongly different densities (high-density ratios) by providing the theoretica…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 4 cited

Computing hydrodynamic eigenmodes of channel flow with slip -- A highly accurate algorithm

S. Raju, D. Gründing, T. Marić +2

The transient start-up flow solution with slip is a useful tool to verify Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. However, a highly accurate, open-source black box solution…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 13 cited

Computing volume fractions and signed distances from triangulated surfaces immersed in unstructured meshes

Tobias Tolle, Dirk Gründing, Dieter Bothe +1

Available algorithms for the initialization of volume fractions typically utilize exact functions to model fluid interfaces, or they rely on computationally costly intersections be…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 5 cited

Iterative Volume-of-Fluid interface positioning in general polyhedrons with Consecutive Cubic Spline interpolation

Tomislav Maric

A straightforward and computationally efficient Consecutive Cubic Spline (CCS) iterative algorithm is proposed for positioning the planar interface of the unstructured geometrical…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 105 cited

Unstructured un-split geometrical Volume-of-Fluid methods -- A review

Tomislav Maric, Douglas B. Kothe, Dieter Bothe

Geometrical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) methods mainly support structured meshes, and only a small number of contributions in the scientific literature report results with unstructured m…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 19 cited

SAAMPLE: A Segregated Accuracy-driven Algorithm for Multiphase Pressure-Linked Equations

Tobias Tolle, Dieter Bothe, Tomislav Maric

Existing hybrid Level Set / Front Tracking methods have been developed for structured meshes and successfully used for efficient and accurate simulations of complex multiphase flow…

math.NA2019★ 16 cited

Contact line advection using the geometrical Volume-of-Fluid method

Mathis Fricke, Tomislav Marić, Dieter Bothe

We consider the interface advection problem by a prescribed velocity field in the special case when the interface intersects the domain boundary, i.e. in the presence of a contact…

physics.flu-dyn2013★ 9 cited

voFoam - A geometrical Volume of Fluid algorithm on arbitrary unstructured meshes with local dynamic adaptive mesh refinement using OpenFOAM

Tomislav Maric, Holger Marschall, Dieter Bothe

A new parallelized unsplit geometrical Volume of Fluid (VoF) algorithm with support for arbitrary unstructured meshes and dynamic local Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR), as well as f…