Contrib/CompressibleMixingPhaseChangeFoam

Solver for two fluids with phase change (for example - water <---> steam), pressure and temperature density dependence

Model Equations

• Equation of state

Low-compressible fluid: $\rho = \rho_0 + \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial T} \Delta T + \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial p} \Delta p$

Ideal gas: $\rho=\frac{p}{(C_p/C_v)(R/M)T}$

By combining this equations, we can get general relation:

$\rho = \hat \rho + \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial p} \Delta p$

where $\hat \rho$ computed with respect to previous formulations

mixture density $\rho$ calculated as

$\rho = \alpha_l \rho_l + \alpha_v \rho_v$

• Liquid volume transport

Let us consider transport of liquid (heavy phase) volume fraction $\alpha_l$:

$\frac{\partial \alpha_l \rho_l}{\partial t} + \nabla \cdot \left ( \alpha_l \rho_l \mathbf{U} \right ) = \dot m_l$

By converting to volume fluxes we get:

$\frac {\partial \alpha_l}{\partial t} + \nabla \cdot \left ( \alpha_l \textbf{U} \right ) = \frac {\alpha_l}{\rho_l} \frac {d \rho_l}{dt} + \frac {\dot m_l}{\rho_l}$

Using equation of state, we can reformulate substantial derivative for density in terms of pressure for any phase:

$\frac {d \rho}{dt}= \frac {d \hat \rho} {dt} + \psi \frac {dp} {dt} + p \frac {d \psi}{dt}$

• General rule for converting from mass to volume fluxes in transport equation

$\frac{\partial \alpha_i \rho_i \zeta}{\partial t} + \nabla \cdot \left ( \alpha_i \rho_i \textbf{U} \zeta \right ) = \rho_i \alpha_i \left ( \frac {\partial \zeta}{\partial t} + \nabla \cdot \left ( \textbf{U} \zeta \right ) \right ) + \zeta \alpha_l \frac {d \rho_i}{dt} + \zeta \rho_i \frac {d \alpha_i}{dt}$

• Momentum equation (velocity prediction)

\frac {\partial \rho \textbf{U}}{\partial t}

* Phase change model
* Energy equation

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