Numerical simulation of sprays is essential in many industrial and academic applications. Sprays are multiphase flows consisting of droplets dispersed in another continuum phase. A key characteristic is the polydispersity, i.e. the wide range of droplet sizes. The first kind of simulation of the dispersed phase adopted a Lagrangian approach, which has the drawback of being coupled with an Eulerian description of the carrier phase. A new class of methods based on an Eulerian approach was devised to overcome these limitations. Among these, the Eulerian multi-fluid method is the one considered in this thesis. The resulting governing equations exhibit a weakly hyperbolic structure and may develop discontinuities, thus requiring robust and high-order numerical schemes. In this work, a Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method is employed for temporal and spatial discretization, along with a bound-preserving limiter. The proposed numerical framework is implemented using the deal.II C++ finite element library. Numerical experiments are presented to assess the capability of the method to capture the relevant physical features of spray dynamics, such as the formation of delta-concentrations and the appearance of vacuum regions.
La simulazione numerica degli spray è essenziale in numerose applicazioni industriali e accademiche. Gli spray sono flussi multifase costituiti da goccioline disperse in un’altra fase continua. Una caratteristica fondamentale è la polidispersione, ossia l’ampia gamma di dimensioni delle goccioline. Le prime simulazioni della fase dispersa adottavano un approccio lagrangiano, che presenta lo svantaggio di dover essere accoppiato a una descrizione euleriana della fase portante. Per superare tali limitazioni è stata sviluppata una nuova classe di metodi basati su un approccio euleriano. Tra questi, nella presente tesi viene considerato il metodo multi-fluido euleriano. Le equazioni risultanti presentano una struttura debolmente iperbolica e possono sviluppare discontinuità, rendendo quindi necessari schemi numerici robusti e ad alto ordine di accuratezza. In questo lavoro viene impiegato un metodo Runge–Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) per la discretizzazione temporale e spaziale, insieme a un limitatore che preserva i vincoli (bound-preserving limiter). Il framework numerico proposto è implementato utilizzando la libreria agli elementi finiti deal.II in C++. I risultati numerici sono presentati al fine di valutare la capacità del metodo di catturare correttamente le rilevanti caratteristiche fisiche della dinamica degli spray, quali la formazione di delta-accumulazioni e la comparsa di regioni di vuoto.
A bound-preserving discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for eulerian spray dynamics
ANDREOTTI, FRANCESCO
2024/2025
Abstract
Numerical simulation of sprays is essential in many industrial and academic applications. Sprays are multiphase flows consisting of droplets dispersed in another continuum phase. A key characteristic is the polydispersity, i.e. the wide range of droplet sizes. The first kind of simulation of the dispersed phase adopted a Lagrangian approach, which has the drawback of being coupled with an Eulerian description of the carrier phase. A new class of methods based on an Eulerian approach was devised to overcome these limitations. Among these, the Eulerian multi-fluid method is the one considered in this thesis. The resulting governing equations exhibit a weakly hyperbolic structure and may develop discontinuities, thus requiring robust and high-order numerical schemes. In this work, a Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method is employed for temporal and spatial discretization, along with a bound-preserving limiter. The proposed numerical framework is implemented using the deal.II C++ finite element library. Numerical experiments are presented to assess the capability of the method to capture the relevant physical features of spray dynamics, such as the formation of delta-concentrations and the appearance of vacuum regions.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Thesis.pdf
accessibile in internet solo dagli utenti autorizzati
Dimensione
15.24 MB
Formato
Adobe PDF
|
15.24 MB | Adobe PDF | Visualizza/Apri |
I documenti in POLITesi sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
https://hdl.handle.net/10589/253172