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Shimpei Saito1, Alessandro De Rosis2, Alessio Festuccia3
1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan.
Abstract:
We develop a lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for immiscible two-phase flow simulations with central moments (CMs). This successfully combines a three-dimensional nonorthogonal CM-based LB scheme [De Rosis, Phys. Rev. E 95, 013310 (2017)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.95.013310] with our previous color-gradient LB model [Saito, Abe, and Koyama, Phys. Rev. E 96, 013317 (2017)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.96.013317]. Hydrodynamic melt-jet breakup simulations show that the proposed model is significantly more stable, even for flow with extremely high Reynolds numbers, up to O(10^{6}). This enables us to investigate the phenomena expected under actual reactor conditions.
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