Validation of a High-Order Diffuse Interface Multi-Phase Method for High-Speed Droplet Shock Interaction and Impingement

Manuel Viqueira-Moreira, Tyler D. Stoffel, Savio J. Poovathingal, Christoph Brehm

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Abstract

High-speed droplet impingement is a challenging problem involving a wide variety of physical mechanisms, including aero-breakup and phase change. Diffuse interface multiphase methods provide a simple, computationally efficient, and numerically robust approach to model these phenomena. In this work, a high-order numerical solution procedure for the Allaire five-equation model within the in-house solver CHAMPS is validated against currently available numerical and experimental data in one, two, and three dimensions. Simulations were performed with liquid and gas phases and geometries were efficiently modeled using the immersed boundary method. Adaptive mesh refinement was employed to efficiently track important flow features such as shocks and wakes. Recent shock interaction results at Mach 2.4 and Mach 10 were reproduced with a first-order HLLC approach and a higher-order positivity-preserving WCNS scheme introduced by Wong et al. (2021). The same method was applied to a water column impingement at 110 m/s, and good agreement with recent numerical results and shadowgraph images was found. Finally, a computationally challenging set of 2D and 3D test cases considering high-speed flows are presented including shock-droplet interaction and impingement on an oblique wedge geometry.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventAIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum - Chicago, United States
Duration: Jun 27 2022Jul 1 2022

Publication series

NameAIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum

Conference

ConferenceAIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period6/27/227/1/22

Bibliographical note

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© 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA., All rights reserved.

Funding

support by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-22-1-2443 with Dr. Eric Marineau as program manager is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to thank the University of Maryland for their Juggernaut and Deepthought2 computing resources and the University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences and Information Technology Services Research Computing for their support and use of the Lipscomb Compute Cluster (LCC) and associated research computing resources. Funding support by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-22-1-2443 with Dr. Eric Marineau as program manager is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to thank the University of Maryland for their Juggernaut and Deepthought2 computing resources and the University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences and Information Technology Services Research Computing for their support and use of the Lipscomb Compute Cluster (LCC) and associated research computing resources.

FundersFunder number
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Office of Naval ResearchN00014-22-1-2443
University of Maryland, The Maryland NanoCenter

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
    • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
    • Aerospace Engineering

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