A projection-based particle method with optimized particle shifting for multiphase flows with large density ratios and discontinuous density fields

Abstract

A novel projection-based particle method is presented for simulation of multiphase flows characterized by large density ratios and discontinuous density fields at the phase interface. The method considers a multi-fluid continuous system and comprises of a specific computational algorithm utilizing the recently developed Optimized Particle Shifting (OPS [1]) scheme to maintain the regularity of particles at the phase interface and free-surface. The method is founded on an improved version of Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS [2]) as a projection-based particle method. A set of previously developed improved schemes are also adopted and hence the proposed method is referred to as improved MPS + OPS. Validations are made both qualitatively and quantitatively in terms of accuracy, energy conservation properties as well as convergence properties by consideration of several benchmark tests.