varRhoTurbVOF : A new set of volume of fluid solvers for turbulent isothermal multiphase flows in OpenFOAM

• The volume of fluid (VOF) method is a popular approach for multiphase flow modeling. The open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, OpenFOAM, implements a variety of VOF-based solvers and provides users a wide range of turbulence models. Since isothermal multiphase flows under the VOF framework belong to the variable-density incompressible flow category, the isothermal VOF-based solvers in OpenFOAM fail to use the correct turbulence models. varRhoTurbVOF is designed to solve this issue and with the hope to replace all the corresponding existing solvers in the future. With the object-oriented paradigm, varRhoTurbVOF guarantees the usability, reusability and maintainability of the codes. Aside from turbulence modeling, all other features in the original solvers are preserved in varRhoTurbVOF. Program summary: Program Title: varRhoTurbVOF Program Files doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/4t8z8vzyvs.1 Licensing provisions: GPLv3 Programming language: C++ Supplementary material: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/7mp25kyb4p.4 Nature of problem: Under the VOF framework, the flow of the isothermal mixture belongs to the variable-density incompressible flow category. For such flows, VOF-based solvers of OpenFOAM fail to construct the correct governing equations for turbulence modeling. varRhoTurbVOF contains a set of newly designed VOF-based solvers which could use the desired governing equations for turbulence quantities. Solution method: varRhoTurbVOF creates a new class for variable-density incompressible turbulence models, which allows reusing the existing turbulence model template classes. A set of VOF-based solvers are then created to be able to construct variable-density incompressible turbulence models.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Strömningsmekanik och akustik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

CFD

OpenFOAM

Turbulence modeling

Variable-density incompressible flow

VOF

C++ (programming language)

Incompressible flow

Isotherms

Multiphase flow

Object oriented programming

Open source software

Open systems

Reusability

Turbulence models

Governing equations

Incompressible turbulence

Multi-phase flow models

Object oriented paradigm

Variable density

Volume of fluid method

Volume of fluids

Computational fluid dynamics

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