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Workshop Series on Advances on Scientific and Engineering Computing (III) -- Computational Fluid Dynamics, Interface Problems and Beyond

A Second Order Accuracy Preserving Method for Moving Contact Line Problems

Speaker

Zhen Zhang , Southern University of Science and Technology

Time

06 Dec, 09:30 - 10:00

Abstract

The immersed interface method (IIM) has been widely used in simulations of multiphase flows with closed interfaces. We generalize IIM to simulate the moving contact line (MCL) problems, which are modelled by the Stokes equation with Navier-slip boundary condition and the contact angle condition. With the help of variational formulation, the contact angle condition can be combined with the interfacial kinematics in a weak form. A parametric finite element method (PFEM) is applied to solve for the interface motion as well as the curvature, which are in turn used to update the correction terms for the irregular points in IIM. The hybrid IIM-PFEM method achieves second order accuracy not only in the velocity field, but also in the interface and the contact line motion. This is validated by numerical results. Moreover, we generalize the method to account for discontinuous viscosity. Various numerical experiments are presented in the study of droplet motion and contact angle hysteresis (CAH).