A path-conservative method for a five-equation model of two-phase flow with an HLLC-type Riemann solver

摘要

Compressible multi-phase flows are found in a variety of scientific and engineering problems. The development of accurate and efficient numerical algorithms for multi-phase flow simulations remains one of the challenging issues in computational fluid dynamics. A main difficulty of numerical methods for multiphase flows is that the model equations cannot always be written in conservative form, though they may be hyperbolic and derived from physical conservation principles. In this work, assuming a hyperbolic model, a path-conservative method is developed to deal with the non-conservative character of the equations. The method is applied to solve the five-equation model of Saurel and Abgrall for two-phase flow. As another contribution of the work, a simplified HLLC-type approximate Riemann solver is proposed to compute the Godunov state to be incorporated into the Godunov-type path-conservative method. A second order, semi-discrete version of the method is then constructed via a MUSCL reconstruction with Runge-Kutta time stepping. Moreover, the method is then extended to the two-dimensional case by directional splitting. The method is systematically assessed via a series of test problems with exact solutions, finding satisfactory results.