Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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661163 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2008 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
This paper presents a numerical method for the simulation of boiling flows on non-orthogonal body-fitted coordinates. The volume-of-fluid (VOF) method based on piecewise linear interface construction (PLIC) is used to track liquid–vapor interface and is extended to body-fitted coordinates. Some special treatment is taken to deal with the discontinuous velocity field due to phase change at the interface. A double staggered grid with the SIMPLE method is adopted to solve the flow field. This method is used to simulate natural convection film boiling and forced convection film boiling on a sphere at saturated conditions. The simulation results are compared with analytical correlations and experimental data.
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Authors
M.H. Yuan, Y.H. Yang, T.S. Li, Z.H. Hu,