Tomas Fullana

• PostDoc Position at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

This second segment of a two-part study investigates the numerical modeling of the Navier slip boundary condition at the contact line at the junction of free and solid surfaces, a key element in many natural and technological processes. The first segment introduced a method based on the cut-cell formalism. This second segment demonstrates how this...

In this work, we revisit the Generalized Navier Boundary condition (GNBC) introduced by Qian et al. in the sharp interface Volume-of-Fluid context. We replace the singular uncompensated Young stress by a smooth function with a characteristic width $\varepsilon$ that is understood as a physical parameter of the model. Therefore, we call the model th...

The treatment of complex geometries in computational fluid dynamics applications is a challenging endeavor, particularly when they couple the dynamics of two flow fields, as in multi-phase applications. Immersed boundary and cut-cell techniques can significantly simplify the solution workflow by alleviating the meshing process required by body-fitt...

The stream function solution for the inner region Stokes flow, for a locally plane moving fluid interface near the triple point, is derived considering three different boundary conditions: the Navier slip boundary condition (NBC), the super-slip boundary condition and the generalized Navier boundary condition (GNBC). The NBC, incorporating a slip l...

A range of optimization cases of two-dimensional Stefan problems, solved using a tracking type cost-functional, is presented. A level-set method is used to capture the interface between the liquid and solid phases and an immersed boundary (cut cell) method coupled with an implicit time-advancement scheme is employed to solve the heat equation. A co...

In this thesis, we study complex phenomena in multiphase flows using various new numerical methods and models. The focus is, first, set on the two-phase Stefan problem, a phase-change problem where the motion of the interface is related to the jump in conductive heat fluxes. The complex interfacial shapes in crystal growth, in the presence anisotro...

The treatment of complex geometries in Computational Fluid Dynamics applications is a challenging endeavor, which immersed boundary and cut-cell techniques can significantly simplify by alleviating the meshing process required by body-fitted meshes. These methods however introduce new challenges, as the formulation of accurate and well-posed discre...

A range of optimization cases of two-dimensional Stefan problems, solved using a tracking-type cost-functional, is presented. A level set method is used to capture the interface between the liquid and solid phases and an immersed boundary (cut cell) method coupled with an implicit time-advancement scheme is employed to solve the heat equation. A co...

The movement of the triple contact line plays a crucial role in many applications such as ink-jet printing, liquid coating and drainage (imbibition) in porous media. To design accurate computational tools for these applications, predictive models of the moving contact line are needed. However, the basic mechanisms responsible for movement of the tr...

In this paper, we investigate dynamic wetting in the curtain coating configuration. The two-phase Navier–Stokes equations are solved by a Volume-of-Fluid method on an adaptive Cartesian mesh. We introduce the Navier boundary condition to regularize the solution at the triple point and remove the implicit numerical slip induced by the cell-centered...

In this paper we investigate dynamic wetting in the curtain coating configuration. The two-phase Navier-Stokes equations are solved by a Volume-of-Fluid method on an adaptive Cartesian mesh. We introduce the Navier boundary condition to regularize the solution at the triple point and remove the implicit numerical slip induced by the cell-centered i...

The movement of the triple contact line plays a crucial role in many applications such as ink-jet printing, liquid coating and drainage (imbibition) in porous media. To design accurate computational tools for these applications, predictive models of the moving contact line are needed. However, the basic mechanisms responsible for movement of the tr...