Symmetric boundary condition for the MPS method with surface tension model

Abstract

In order to supplement the investigation of boundary conditions for the MPS method, a general computational algorithm of symmetric boundary condition for MPS is presented to simulate the symmetric problems. By the MPS method with the symmetric boundary condition (the SBC-MPS method), only half or quarter of the full computational domain needs to be set up, thus, the computational cost is able to be slashed dramatically. In the SBC-MPS method, mirror particles are introduced, which will be arranged symmetrically according to the positions of real liquid particles near to the symmetric plane, but not involved in the solution of physical properties. The function of these mirror particles is to compensate the values for the calculation of real liquid particles. As numerical tests, various of problems including two-dimensional Poiseuille Flow, three-dimensional dam-break, and some surface tension dominant problems, such as droplet wetting / impinging to a solid surface and binary droplets collision have been systematically studied by the SBC-MPS method. As a result, the algorithm shows good robustness, stability and accuracy, which demonstrates a great potential to improve the computational efficiency for dealing with symmetric problems.