IVA_5M numerical method for analysis of three-fluid multi-component flows in boundary-fitted multi-blocks

This paper presents a numerical solution method for multi-phase flow analysis based on local volume and time averaged conservation equations. The emphasis of this development was to create a computer code architecture that absorb all the constitutive physics and functionality from the past 25 years development of the three fluid multi-component IVA-entropy concept for multi-phase flows into a boundary fitted orthogonal coordinate framework. Collocated discretization for the momentum equations is used followed by weighted averaging for the staggered grids resulting in analytical expressions for the normal velocities. Using the entropy concept analytical reduction to a pressure–velocity coupling is found. The performance of the method is demonstrated by comparison of two cases for which experimental results and numerical solution with the previous method are available. The agreement demonstrates the success of this development.