FLAIR:General Idea

Reconstructs interface by:

sloped line
fitted at the boundary of every
TWO neighboring cells
Original Geometry

New f calculated by:

integrating the advected area
underneath the interface line
segment
Reconstructed

FLAIR: Fluid Cases

Possible fluid combinations for TWO cells

FLAIR: Subcases

Determine Interface Line

All cases reduce to Case 9

Line Segment: y = ax + b

a,b = f(fa, fb)

fa

fb

fa

9a
9a

fa

9b

fb
9c

fb

fb

fa
9d

FLAIR:Flux Definition

Determine fluid flux moving from one cell to

another.
Define: s = ut/h
Fluxes:
f+ = s[a + b* - as/2]
f- = s[a + b* + as/2]

Variables a and b geometry dependent

FLAIR: Flux Diagram

y

yj + 1/2
yj - 1/2

xi - 1/2 x* x
i + 1/2

xi + 3/2

FLAIR: Case Distinction Diagram

Criteria to determine which Subcase is required

FLAIR: Single Interface Cell

Full cell moving into Empty cell

4 possible cases

FLAIR: Configuration Distinction

Criteria to determine which line-segment will be

in a single interfacial cell.

General Solution Procedure using FLAIR

1: Specify intital surface geometry and velocities

2: Move surface based on velocities and FLAIR
3: Find Surface Curvature using f-field
4: Calculate Surface pressure using local curvatures
5: Calculate remaining pressures using Poissons Eq.
6: Solve for velocity field everywhere in domain
using Momentum Eqs.
7: Interate between 5 & 6 until convergence
8: Increment time and repeat 1-8 until done

FLAIR: Sample Application

Problem: Capillary-Driven Drop Motion

2-D, Imcompressible, constant properties

Governing Equations:
Continuity
Navier-Stokes Equations

Boundary Conditions:
No shear forces at fluid surface
Effect of velocity gradients on surface pressure are
neglected
p

y xx

R 1 y x2 1.5

Staggered Grid: Poisson Equation

zj+1

vi-1, j+1/2

ui-1/2, j+1

Pi-1, j

zj ui+1/2, j

vi-1, j+1/2

ui-1/2, j

vi, j+3/2
Pi, j+1
vi, j+1/2
Pi, j

vi+1, j+1/2
ui+1/2, j

Pi+1, j
vi+1, j-1/2

vi, j-1/2
ui-1/2, j-1 Pi,j-1

zj-1

ui+1/2, j+1

ui+1/2, j-1

vi, j-3/2

ri-1

ri

ri+1

ui+3/2, j

Cell Variable Definitions

vi, j-1/2
j+1/2

ui-1/2, j

Pi, j

Fi, j

ui+1/2, j

vi, j-1/2
j-1/2
i-1/2

i+1/2

FLAIR: Surface Pressure

Pi, j
Ps
dc

dfs

Pi , j 1 Pf Ps ,

Pf

where

dc
dfs

A-FLAIR: General Idea

Axisymmetric version of FLAIR

Need Advection Criterion:

Satisfies Continuity Equation

1
u
(r v ) 0
z r
r

Axial Direction: u = Constant

Radial Direction: rv = Constant

A-FLAIR: Interface Reconstruction

Similar to FLAIR but....

Movement along the z and r directions do NOT obey
same relations
Different relations must be used depending on + or -
movement
Line: ab
No closed form solution for a & b

A-FLAIR: Flux Diagrams

r

r j + 1/2
u

i+1/2, j

r j - 1/2

z i - 1/2 z * z i + 1/2

z i + 3/2

r j + 1/2
u

i+1/2, j

r j - 1/2

z i - 1/2 z i + 1/2 z *

z i + 3/2

A-FLAIR: Z-direction

Interface orientation?
Need to identify

9 cases
All reduce to case 9, 4 subcases

Fluxes: f= f(r, a, b, u, t)
Cant solve for a,b directly
Solve a,b for EACH subcase and check limits

A-FLAIR: R-direction

Most general case

case 9, 4 subcases

Fluxes: solve cubic or Newton-Rapson

Cases: 1,2,7 & 8: single interface cell

16 possible cases: use f and to identify case

i.e.

or

Fluxes: case specific - , and V()