Summary: Fusion Engineering and Design 81 (2006) 1521­1526
Application of the level set method for multi-phase flow
computation in fusion engineering
X-Y. Luo, M-J. Ni, A. Ying, M. Abdou
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Received 6 February 2005; received in revised form 16 September 2005; accepted 16 September 2005
Available online 27 December 2005
Abstract
Numerical simulation of multi-phase flow is essential to evaluate the feasibility of a liquid protection scheme for the power
plant chamber. The level set method is one of the best methods for computing and analyzing the motion of interface among
the multi-phase flow. This paper presents a general formula for the second-order projection method combined with the level
set method to simulate unsteady incompressible multi-phase flow with/out phase change flow encountered in fusion science
and engineering. The third-order ENO scheme and second-order semi-implicit Crank­Nicholson scheme is used to update the
convective and diffusion term. The numerical results show this method can handle the complex deformation of the interface and
the effect of liquid­vapor phase change will be included in the future work.
© 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Level set method; RKCN projection method; Spray droplet; Multi-phase flow
1. Introduction
There are many liquid wall conceptions that have
been designed for the magnetic fusion energy plant,

Source: Abdou, Mohamed - Fusion Science and Technology Center, University of California at Los Angeles

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