/** # Stefan Problem A thin vapor layer is initialized close to a superheated wall. The high wall temperature heats up the vapor layer, which is in contact with a liquid phase that always remains at saturation temperature leading to the phase change. The simulation setup used here was adapted from [Malan et al, 2021](#malan2021geometric). The analytic solution to the problem describes the evolution of the vapor layer thickness: $$ \delta(t) = 2\lambda\sqrt{\alpha_g t} $$ where $\alpha_g$ is the thermal diffusivity, defined as $\alpha_g = \lambda_g/\rho_g/cp_g$, while $\lambda$ is a value, specific to the physical properties under investigation, which can be found from the solution of the transcendental equation: $$ \lambda\exp(\lambda^2) \text{erf}(\lambda) = \dfrac{cp_g(T_{wall}-T_{sat})}{\Delta h_{ev}\sqrt{\pi}} $$ The animation shows that, at the beginning of the simulation, the superheated wall heats up the vapor layer which becomes hotter than the liquid phase, leading to the evaporation which establishes the interface velocity jump. ![Evolution of the interface and the temperature field](stefanproblem/movie.mp4)(width="400" height="400") */ /** ## Phase Change Setup We move the interface using the velocity *uf*, with the expansion term shifted toward the gas-phase. In this way *uf* is divergence-free at the interface. The double pressure velocity couping is used to obtain an extended velocity, used to transport the gas phase tracers. */ #define INT_USE_UF #define CONSISTENTPHASE2 #define SHIFT_TO_GAS /** ## Simulation Setup We use the centered solver with the divergence source term, and the extended velocity is obtained using the centered-doubled procedure. The evaporation model is used in combination with the temperature-gradient mechanism, which manages the solution of the temperature field. */ #include "grid/multigrid.h" #include "navier-stokes/centered-evaporation.h" #include "navier-stokes/centered-doubled.h" #include "two-phase.h" #include "tension.h" #include "evaporation.h" #include "temperature-gradient.h" #include "view.h" /** We declare the variables required by the temperature-gradient model. */ double lambda1, lambda2, cp1, cp2, dhev; double TL0, TG0, TIntVal, Tsat, Twall; /** ### Boundary conditions Outflow boundary conditions for velocity and pressure are imposed on the left wall, while the temperature on the superheated wall is set to the superheated value. */ u.n[left] = neumann (0); u.t[left] = neumann (0); p[left] = dirichlet (0); uext.n[left] = neumann (0); uext.t[left] = neumann (0); pext[left] = dirichlet (0); TG[left] = dirichlet (Tsat); TG[right] = dirichlet (Twall); TL[left] = dirichlet (Tsat); TL[right] = dirichlet (Twall); /** ### Problem Data We declare the maximum and minimum levels of refinement, the $\lambda$ parameter, and the initial thickness of the vapor layer. */ int maxlevel, minlevel = 3; double lambdaval = 0.06779249298045148; double delta0 = 322.5e-6; double tshift, teff; int main (void) { /** We set the material properties of the fluids. */ rho1 = 958., rho2 = 0.6; mu1 = 2.82e-4, mu2 = 1.23e-5; lambda1 = 0.68, lambda2 = 0.025; cp1 = 4216., cp2 = 2080.; dhev = 2.256e6, /** The initial temperature and the interface temperature are set to the same value. */ Tsat = 373., Twall = 383.; TL0 = Tsat, TG0 = Tsat; TIntVal = Tsat; /** We change the dimension of the domain and the surface tension coefficient. */ L0 = 10e-3; f.sigma = 0.059; /** We run the simulation for different maximum levels of refinement. */ for (maxlevel = 5; maxlevel <= 6; maxlevel++) { init_grid (1 << maxlevel); run(); } } /** We initialize the volume fraction field and the temperature in the gas and in liquid phase. */ event init (i = 0) { fraction (f, -(x - 0.0096775)); foreach() { TL[] = f[]*TL0; TG[] = (1. - f[])*TG0; T[] = f[]*TL0 + (1. - f[])*TG0; } /** At simulation time equal to zero, the thickness of the vapor layer is not zero. Therefore, we compute a time *shifting factor* (just for post-processing purposes). */ double effective_height; effective_height = (sq(L0) - statsf(f).sum)/L0; tshift = sq(effective_height/2./lambdaval)*rho2*cp2/lambda2; } /** We refine the interface and the region where the temperature field changes. */ #if TREE event adapt (i++) { adapt_wavelet_leave_interface ({T}, {f}, (double[]){1.e-3}, maxlevel, minlevel, 1); } #endif /** ## Post-Processing The following lines of code are for post-processing purposes. */ /** ### Exact Solution We write a function that computes the exact solution to the thickness of the vapor layer, and the analytic temperature profile. */ double exact (double time) { return 2.*lambdaval*sqrt(lambda2/rho2/cp2*time); } double tempsol (double time, double x) { return Twall + ((Tsat - Twall)/erf(lambdaval))* erf(x/2./sqrt(lambda2/rho2/cp2*time)); } /** ### Output Files We write the thickness of the vapor layer and the analytic solution on a file. */ event output (t += 0.1) { double effective_height = 0.; foreach(reduction(+:effective_height)) effective_height += (1. - f[])*dv(); effective_height /= L0; double relerr = fabs (exact(t+tshift) - effective_height) / exact(t+tshift); char name[80]; sprintf (name, "OutputData-%d", maxlevel); static FILE * fp = fopen (name, "w"); fprintf (fp, "%g %g %g %g\n", t+tshift, effective_height, exact (t+tshift), relerr); fflush (fp); } /** ### Temperature Profile We write on a file the temperature profile at the final time step. */ event profiles (t = end) { char name[80]; sprintf (name, "Temperature-%d", maxlevel); /** We create an array with the temperature profile for each processor. */ Array * arrtemp = array_new(); for (double x = 0.; x < L0; x += 0.5*L0/(1 << maxlevel)) { double val = interpolate (T, x, 0.); val = (val == nodata) ? 0. : val; array_append (arrtemp, &val, sizeof(double)); } double * temps = (double *)arrtemp->p; /** We sum each element of the arrays in every processor. */ @if _MPI int size = arrtemp->len/sizeof(double); MPI_Allreduce (MPI_IN_PLACE, temps, size, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD); @endif /** The master node writes the temperature profile. */ if (pid() == 0) { FILE * fpp = fopen (name, "w"); int count = 0; for (double x = 0.; x < L0; x += 0.5*L0/(1 << maxlevel)) { double R = exact (t+tshift); double tempexact = (x >= L0-R) ? tempsol (t+tshift, L0-x) : Tsat; fprintf (fpp, "%g %g %g\n", x, temps[count], tempexact); count++; } fflush (fpp); fclose (fpp); } array_free (arrtemp); } /** ### Movie We write the animation with the evolution of the temperature field and the gas-liquid interface. */ event movie (t += 0.1; t <= 10) { if (maxlevel == 5) { clear(); view (tx = -0.5, ty = -0.5); box(); draw_vof ("f", lw = 1.5); squares ("T", min = Tsat, max = Twall, linear = true); vectors ("u", scale = 1.e-1, lc = {1.,1.,1.}); save ("movie.mp4"); } } /** ## Results ~~~gnuplot Evolution of the vapor layer thickness set xlabel "t[s]" set ylabel "Vapor Layer Thickness [m]" set key left top set size square set grid plot "OutputData-5" every 10 u 1:3 w p ps 2 t "Analytic", \ "OutputData-5" u 1:2 w l lw 2 t "LEVEL 5", \ "OutputData-6" u 1:2 w l lw 2 t "LEVEL 6" ~~~ ~~~gnuplot Relative Errors reset stats "OutputData-4" using (last4=$4) nooutput stats "OutputData-5" using (last5=$4) nooutput stats "OutputData-6" using (last6=$4) nooutput #stats "OutputData-7" using (last7=$4) nooutput set print "Errors.csv" print sprintf ("%d %.12f", 2**5, last5) print sprintf ("%d %.12f", 2**6, last6) #print sprintf ("%d %.12f", 2**7, last7) unset print reset set xlabel "N" set ylabel "Relative Error" set logscale x 2 set logscale y set xr[2**4:2**7] set yr[1e-6:1e-2] set size square set grid plot "Errors.csv" w p pt 8 ps 2 title "Results", \ 0.05*x**(-1) lw 2 title "1^{st} order", \ 0.5*x**(-2) lw 2 title "2^{nd} order" ~~~ ~~~gnuplot Temperature Profile reset set xlabel "Length [m]" set ylabel "Temperature [K]" set xr[0.0075:0.01] set key bottom right set size square set grid plot "Temperature-5" u 1:3 w p ps 2 t "Analytic", \ "Temperature-5" u 1:2 w l lw 2 t "LEVEL 5", \ "Temperature-6" u 1:2 w l lw 2 t "LEVEL 6" ~~~ ## References ~~~bib @article{malan2021geometric, title={A geometric VOF method for interface resolved phase change and conservative thermal energy advection}, author={Malan, LC and Malan, Arnaud G and Zaleski, St{\'e}phane and Rousseau, PG}, journal={Journal of Computational Physics}, volume={426}, pages={109920}, year={2021}, publisher={Elsevier} } ~~~ */