An all-regime Lagrange-Projection like scheme for 2D homogeneous models for two-phase flows on unstructured meshes

Christophe Chalons (1) , Mathieu Girardin (2) , Samuel Kokh (3)

1 LMV - Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles
2 LJLL - Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
3 MDLS - Maison de la Simulation

We propose an all regime Lagrange-Projection like numerical scheme for 2D homogeneous models for two-phase flows. By all regime, we mean that the numerical scheme is able to compute accurate approximate solutions with an under-resolved discretization, i.e. a mesh size and time step much bigger than the Mach number M of the mixture. The key idea is to decouple acoustic, transport and phase transition phenomenon using a Lagrange-Projection decomposition in order to treat implicitly (fast) acoustic and phase transition phenomenon and explicitly the (slow) transport phenomena. Then, extending a strategy developed in the case of the usual gas dynamics equations, we alter the numerical flux in the acoustic approximation to obtain a uniform truncation error in terms of M . This modified scheme is conservative and endowed with good stability properties with respect to the positivity of the density and preserving the mass fraction within the interval (0,1). Numerical evidences are proposed and show the ability of the scheme to deal with cases where the flow regime may vary from low to high Mach values.

Mots clés: Two-phase flows; Low-Mach regime; Finite volume schemes; All-regime schemes; Lagrange-Projection like schemes; Large time-steps

Domaines: Analyse numérique [math.NA]; Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

Christophe Chalons, Mathieu Girardin, Samuel Kokh. An all-regime Lagrange-Projection like scheme for 2D homogeneous models for two-phase flows on unstructured meshes. Journal of Computational Physics, 2017, 335, pp.885-904. ⟨10.1016/j.jcp.2017.01.017⟩. ⟨hal-01495699⟩