NEKRS-LS / VISUALIZATIONS

Multiphase visualizations

High-order simulations of two-phase flows using NekRS-LS.

Turbulent bubbly channel flow

Reτ ≈ 280ρr = 40μr ≈ 6We ≈ 17Fr ≈ 4Void fraction = 3%

Growth & decay of two-phase homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Reλ ≈ 85We ≈ 20ρr = 1μr = 1 Reference

NEKRS-LS / REFERENCES

References

  1. Saini, N., Tomboulides, A., Shaver, D. R., Fischer, P. F., Merzari, E., Obabko, A. V., & Guillen, D. P. (2026). A high order continuous Galerkin spectrally stabilized level-set approach for incompressible two-phase flows. Journal of Computational Physics, 561, Article 114961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2026.114961
  2. Saini, N., & Balakrishnan, R. (2026). GPU accelerated spectral element simulations of single and two-phase forced isotropic turbulence (ANL/NSE-26/74). Argonne National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.2172/17032787
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Acknowledgments

The work of Argonne National Laboratory was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.