Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A continuum method for modeling surface tension
Journal of Computational Physics
A level set approach for computing solutions to incompressible two-phase flow
Journal of Computational Physics
Local simulation of two-phase flows including interface tracking with mass transfer
Journal of Computational Physics
A volume of fluid based method for fluid flows with phase change
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Numerical simulation of dendritic solidification with convection: two-dimensional geometry
Journal of Computational Physics
A conservative level set method for two phase flow
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
A Level Set Method for vaporizing two-phase flows
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Direct numerical simulations of flows with phase change
Computers and Structures
A level set method for vapor bubble dynamics
Journal of Computational Physics
Short note: A new contact line treatment for a conservative level set method
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
A ghost fluid method for compressible reacting flows with phase change
Journal of Computational Physics
Benchmarks and numerical methods for the simulation of boiling flows
Journal of Computational Physics
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A new phase-change model has been developed for a mass-conservative interface tracking method. The mass transfer rate is directly calculated from the heat flux at the liquid-vapor interface, and the phase change takes place only in the cells which include this interface. As a consequence of the sharpness of the mass transfer rate distribution, the velocity jump across the interface can be captured, and high accuracy can be maintained. The method has been implemented in an incompressible Navier-Stokes equations solver employing a projection method based on a staggered finite-volume algorithm on Cartesian grids. The model has been verified for one-dimensional phase-change problems and a three-dimensional simulation of a growing vapor bubble in a superheated liquid under zero gravity condition. The computed results agree with theoretical solutions, and the accuracy of the model is confirmed to be of second-order in space using a grid refinement study. A three-dimensional simulation of a rising vapor bubble in a superheated liquid under gravity has been performed as a validation case, and good agreement with experimental data is obtained for the bubble growth rate. As a demonstration of the applicability of the method to engineering problems, a nucleate boiling simulation is presented with a comparison to experimental data. Good agreement is obtained for the bubble shapes and the bubble departure period. In all the simulation cases, strict mass conservation is satisfied.