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    A numerical model for the simulation of complex planar Newtonian interfaces
    (Elsevier, 2025-01) Esteban Paz, Adolfo; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio; Tajuelo Rodríguez, Javier; Rubio González, Miguel Ángel
    We present a numerical model for the simulation of complex planar interfaces at which moving solid objects can be immersed, reproducing a wide variety of experimental conditions. The mathematical model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations governing the incompressible viscous flow in the liquid subphase, the transport equation for the evolution of the surfactant concentration at the interface, and the interfacial stress balance equation. The equations are simplified by treating the problem as isothermal and the surfactant as insoluble. The bulk flow equations are discretized using a collocated finite volume method, while the interfacial flow equations are discretized using a finite area method. The Boussinesq-Scriven interface constitutive model and a variant form accounting for extensional viscosity are used to describe the extra surface stress tensor. The coupling between surfactant concentration, interfacial velocity, and bulk velocity is treated implicitly by solving the interfacial and bulk equations sequentially at each time step until a stopping criterion is satisfied. The motion of the solid is treated by an arbitrary Lagrangian- Eulerian method. The model has been implemented in the OpenFOAM framework and allows the incorporation of new interface models and solvers, making the developed new package a versatile and powerful tool in the field of computational rheology. Applications of the model include the numerical simulation of flow around objects, such as probes, immersed at a complex interface, reproducing given experimental conditions, and its use as a tool in the analysis and design of interfacial stress rheometers. Several test cases have been performed to validate the model by comparing the results obtained with analytical solutions and with numerical and experimental results available in the literature.
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    A comparative study of two open-source state-of-the-art geometric VOF methods
    (Elsevier, 2023-01-15) Esteban Paz, Adolfo; Gómez del Pino, Pablo Joaquín; López, Joaquín; Zanzi, Claudio; Roenby, Johan; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio
    We present a systematic study of geometric volume of fluid (VOF) methods provided in the gVOF and TwoPhaseFlow packages, which include algorithms that are among the most accurate proposed in recent years. In addition to contributing to their further validation, the main purpose is to evaluate, in terms of accuracy and efficiency, the relative advantages of the advection and reconstruction algorithms used in the two packages (mainly, FMFPA-CLCIR and isoAdvector-plicRDF, respectively), and to investigate the suitability of combining them. Since TwoPhaseFlow is available in OpenFOAM, gVOF was also coupled with this open source CFD toolbox to maintain the same conditions in common solvers when obtaining and comparing their results, including discretization schemes, tolerances and meshes. For the same reason, identical computational resources were also maintained. The use of a common software and hardware framework that guarantees strictly the same simulation conditions overcomes many of the limitations and uncertainties of comparisons made in previous studies. Several reconstruction and advection tests are presented, showing the differences between the algorithms in terms of accuracy, as measured by several error norms, and in terms of efficiency, as measured by CPU times consumed. Simulations of the rise of a bubble and the impact of a drop on a pool were also performed, in which the VOF methods were coupled to the same solver of the Navier–Stokes equations, and the results obtained with the two combinations of algorithms FMFPA-CLCIR and isoAdvector-plicRDF are compared with each other and, in the case of the second test, with our own experimental results. The relative advantages and limitations of the analyzed algorithms are discussed, and it is suggested that a combination of isoAdvector for advection and CLCIR for reconstruction can provide a good compromise between accuracy and efficiency.
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    A new isosurface extraction method on arbitrary grids
    (Elsevier, 2021-11) López, Joaquín; Esteban Paz, Adolfo; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio; Gómez del Pino, Pablo Joaquín; Zamora, Rosendo; Zanzi, Claudio; Faura, Félix
    The development of interface-capturing methods (such as level-set, phase-field or volume of fluid (VOF) methods) for arbitrary 3D grids has further highlighted the need for more accurate and efficient interface reconstruction procedures. In this work, we propose a new method for the extraction of isosurfaces on arbitrary polyhedra that can be used with advantage for this purpose. The isosurface is extracted from volume fractions by a general polygon tracing procedure, which is valid for convex or non-convex geometries, even with non-planar faces. The proposed method, which can be considered as an extension of the marching cubes technique, produces consistent results even for ambiguous situations in polyhedra of arbitrary shape. To show the reproducibility of the results presented in this work, we provide the open source library isoap, which has been developed to implement the proposed method and includes test programs to demonstrate the successful extraction of isosurfaces on several grids with polyhedral cells of different types. We present results obtained not only for isosurface extraction from discrete volume fractions resulting from a volume of fluid method, but also from data sets obtained from implicit mathematical functions and signed distances to scanned surfaces. The improvement provided by the proposed method for the extraction of isosurfaces in arbitrary grids will also be very useful in other fields, such as CFD visualization or medical imaging.
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    Volume-conservative modeling of structures manufactured by molten drop-on-drop deposition
    (Elsevier, 2022-09) Zamora, Rosendo; Félix Faura; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio; López , Joaquín
    An improved analytic model to accurately determine the geometry of structures manufactured by molten drop-on-drop deposition is presented. This deposition mode allows quasi-spherical deposited droplets to be achieved and precise control over the geometry of the final manufactured structures. The model exactly conserves the volume of the deposited material and matches the solidification contact angle between consecutive deposited droplets, providing a precise geometrical description of the manufactured structures. The proposed model is validated using results of experiments performed with several materials for the deposited droplets and substrate, and droplet radii ranging from 40 to 800 m. A good degree of agreement was found between theoretical and experimental results. A comparison with the well-established Gao&Sonin model shows that the proposed model represents a major improvement, and may be of great practical interest in industrial applications.
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    gVOF: An open-source package for unsplit geometric volume of fluid methods on arbitrary grids
    (Elsevier, 2022-08) López Rodríguez, Joaquín; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio
    The gVOF package implements several accurate and efficient geometric volume of fluid (VOF) methods on arbitrary grids, either structured or unstructured with convex or non-convex cells, based on multidimensional unsplit advection and piecewise linear interface calculation (PLIC) schemes, with the purpose of facilitating and extending the use of advanced unsplit geometric VOF methods in new or existing computational fluid dynamics codes. The package includes a complete and self-contained set of routines for VOF initialization, interface reconstruction and fluid advection, and uses as external libraries a set of publicly available in-house tools to perform several analytical and geometrical operations. These operations may involve handling of high-complex non-convex flux polyhedra, even with self-intersecting faces, which are robustly and efficiently treated in this work without the need of costly techniques based on convex decomposition. Results for the accuracy, computational efficiency, and volume (local and global) conservation properties of different combinations of the implemented advection and reconstruction methods are presented for several numerical tests on structured and unstructured grids. An extensive comparison with results obtained by other authors using advanced geometric VOF methods shows the outstanding performance of the gVOF package in terms of efficiency and accuracy. To demonstrate the performance of the package in solving complex two-phase flow problems, the implemented methods are combined with an existing in-house code to simulate the impact of a water drop on a free surface.
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    On polytope intersection by half-spaces and hyperplanes for unsplit geometric volume of fluid methods on arbitrary grids
    (Elsevier, 2024-07) López, Joaquín; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-244X
    Several tools with improved accuracy and computational efficiency, along with added capabilities, are presented for performing analytic and geometric operations involving intersections between half-spaces or hyperplanes and 2- or 3-polytopes (polygons or polyhedra, either convex or non-convex) that typically arise in advanced volume of fluid (VOF) methods on arbitrary grids. In particular, tools for the intersection between a polyhedron and a half-space, and for the computation of the interface position to cut off a given area/volume fraction from an arbitrary polygonal/polyhedral grid cell in PLIC (piecewise linear interface calculation) reconstruction have been improved in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. In addition, specific tools are also proposed for (1) the intersection in 3D between a planar polygon and a half-space, and the computation of the resulting intersected area, which can be useful for unsplit methods based on wetted-area time-integration advection (WATIA) schemes, and for (2) the efficient computation of the geometric center of the set of clipped vertices and volume resulting from the intersection between an arbitrary polyhedron and a half-space, which can be useful for, respectively, several PLIC reconstruction methods and unsplit methods based on fluid-volume intersection advection (FVIA) schemes. Finally, a convenient strategy to perform the recursive intersections required during the advection step in advanced geometric VOF methods based on FVIA schemes is also proposed. To assess the performance and accuracy of the proposed tools, different tests were carried out for several convex and non-convex polytopes. Speedups of ×5 and improvements in accuracy of up to 5 orders of magnitude over previous tools have been achieved for certain geometries and operations. The proposed tools have been included in two advection methods (an FVIA method and a new WATIA method proposed in this work) and in a PLIC reconstruction method to demonstrate their improved performance and capabilities on structured and unstructured grids.
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    A contact line force model for the simulation of drop impacts on solid surfaces using volume of fluid methods
    (Elsevier, 2023-09-15) Esteban Paz, Adolfo; Gómez del Pino, Pablo Joaquín; Zanzi, Claudio; López, Joaquín; Bussmann, Markus; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio
    Characterizing the contact line dynamics on solid walls is often a crucial problem encountered in the simulation of complex interfacial unsteady flows, such as drop impacts on solid surfaces. In this work, a new model is proposed to reproduce the contact line dynamics in a simple but effective way, based on introducing in the momentum equation a force term proportional to the deviation of the calculated contact angle from the value predicted by a dynamic model that takes into account wettability hysteresis. The model has been implemented in a volume of fluid (VOF) method and is applied to the simulation of drop impacts leading to deposition outcomes, although it could be extended to other interface tracking methods and is also applicable to more complex drop impacts involving fingering and splashing. Numerous tests have been performed to evaluate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed model over a wide range of Reynolds and Weber numbers. The results substantially improve those obtained by imposing only the contact angle as a boundary condition at the contact line, and satisfactorily predict a variety of experimental results from the literature for very different impact and wettability conditions.
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    Evaluation of Audiovisual Guides for Laboratory Classes in Hydraulic Machinery Courses of Distance Learning Engineering Programs
    (Springer, 2023-06-11) Zanzi, Claudio; Gómez del Pino, Pablo Joaquín; Hernández Rodríguez, Julio; Pedrero Moya, José Ignacio; García Prada, Juan Carlos; Castejon, Cristina; Pedrero Moya, José Ignacio
    In this work, audiovisual guides for laboratory classes on hydraulic machinery in distance learning engineering programs are developed and evaluated. The aim of these guides, which can be viewed directly within the virtual classroom via computer, tablet or mobile phone, is to provide students with an accurate knowledge of the tasks they will have to perform and of the equipment they will handle during the laboratory classes, in order to make the best possible use of the available time during the lab sessions. A key aspect in the development of the guides was to achieve a final format with a relative small size and, at the same time, a reasonable good image and sound quality. In addition, the guide is intended to provide the learner with the highest possible degree of self-sufficiency. The efficiency of the guides is assessed by means of the results of questionnaires answered by students before starting the laboratory classes and by analyzing the development of the lab sessions.