New methods for microscale multiphase flows: application to separation processes

• Grant number: 15/02649-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Transport Phenomena
• Principal Investigator: Fabrício Simeoni de Sousa
• Grantee: Fabrício Simeoni de Sousa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Carlos
• Associated researchers: Cassio Machiaveli Oishi ; Gustavo Carlos Buscaglia ; Roberto Federico Ausas

Abstract

This research proposal covers the study and development of new finite element methods for dynamic meshes, with the objective of simulating multiphase flows with free boundaries, specially in the presence of a dense-packed layer of many droplets. Such flows are important in applications in the oil industry, more specifically when modeling phase separation devices (for instance water and oil). In this type o flow, effects happening in the sub-millimeter scale are of great importance, and up to now, available numerical methods fail to properly resolve these phenomena. The equations modeling the multiphase flows will be treated in an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian framework, where suitable boundary conditions will be applied at the free boundaries separating different fluids. Some of the numerical challenges involved are the correct representation of the interface in the moving mesh framework, the geometry and topology maintenance of the dynamic mesh, and those coming from the correct modeling of microscale phenomena, such as droplet coalescence. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GUIRALDELLO, RAFAEL T.; AUSAS, ROBERTO F.; SOUSA, FABRICIO S.; PEREIRA, FELIPE; BUSCAGLIA, GUSTAVO C.. Interface spaces for the Multiscale Robin Coupled Method in reservoir simulation. MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, v. 164, n. SI, p. 103-119, OCT 2019. (13/07375-0, 16/08115-0, 15/02649-0)

GUIRALDELLO, RAFAEL T.; AUSAS, ROBERTO F.; SOUSA, FABRICIO S.; PEREIRA, FELIPE; BUSCAGLIA, GUSTAVO C.. The Multiscale Robin Coupled Method for flows in porous media. Journal of Computational Physics, v. 355, p. 1-21, FEB 15 2018. (13/07375-0, 15/02649-0, 16/08115-0)

CORREA, L.; MOMPEAN, G.; KUROKAWA, F. A.; SOUSA, F. S.. Temporal large-eddy simulations of the lid-driven cavity by finite volume method. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, v. 40, n. 9, SEP 2018. (12/17827-2, 10/16865-2, 15/02649-0)

GUIRALDELLO, RAFAEL T.; AUSAS, ROBERTO F.; SOUSA, FABRICIO S.; PEREIRA, FELIPE; BUSCAGLIA, GUSTAVO. Velocity postprocessing schemes for multiscale mixed methods applied to contaminant transport in subsurface flows. COMPUTATIONAL GEOSCIENCES, v. 24, n. 3, FEB 2020. (13/07375-0, 15/02649-0, 16/08115-0)

GUIRALDELLO, RAFAEL T.; AUSAS, ROBERTO F.; SOUSA, FABRICIO S.; PEREIRA, FELIPE; BUSCAGLIA, GUSTAVO C.. Interface spaces for the Multiscale Robin Coupled Method in reservoir simulation. MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, v. 164, p. 17-pg., 2019-10-01. (16/08115-0, 13/07375-0, 15/02649-0)