An efficient naturally sharpened stabilized multiphase flow formulation for modeling underwater explosions
摘要
It is well known that multiphase flow formulations for immiscible fluids often suffer from unphysical spreading and distortion of interfaces in the absence of additional sharpening mechanisms developed at the numerical level to address these issues. In the case of underwater explosions (UNDEX), which is a focus of the present paper, the loss of interface sharpness can lead to incorrect explosive bubble dynamics and the resulting poor prediction of structural loads. Here, we propose a stabilized Finite Element formulation for compressible multiphase flow with built-in interface sharpening and species mass balance properties that avoids the extra re-distancing and mass balancing steps. Several UNDEX scenarios are computed, including experimental validation cases, to demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed approach.