In this study, two-phase compressible flow fields of air-water are investigated numerically in the fixed Eulerian grid framework. This study performed numerical analysis of 1D and 2D inviscid fluid by tracing phase interface at the Eulerian grid frame...
In this study, two-phase compressible flow fields of air-water are investigated numerically in the fixed Eulerian grid framework. This study performed numerical analysis of 1D and 2D inviscid fluid by tracing phase interface at the Eulerian grid framework. The phase interface is captured via volume fractions of each phase. A way to model two phase compressible flows as a single phase one is found based on an equivalent equation of states of Tait's type for a multi-phase cell. The equivalent single phase field is discretized using the Roe's approximate Riemann solver. Two approaches are tried to suppress the pressure oscillation phenomena at the phase interface; a passive advection of volume fraction and a direct pressure relaxation with the compressible form of volume fraction equation. The direct pressure equalizing method suppresses pressure oscillation successfully and generates sharp discontinuities, transmitting and reflecting acoustic waves naturally at the phase interface. In discretizing the compressible form of volume fraction equation, phase interfaces are geometrically reconstructed to minimize the numerical diffusion of volume fraction and relevant variables. In order to demonstrate the practical use of the present method, the motion of a projectile in a water-filled tube fired by the release of highly pressurized air is simulated presuming the flow field as a two dimensional one by the present method and a commercial code, FLUENT which allows compressibility for only one phase in multi-phase problem. The results show that FLUENT reveals unrealistic oscillation of pressure wave within liquid phase while the present method gives realistic speed of sound in both phases.