Hello everyone!
Over the past year I used OpenLBv1.3 in my master thesis about flow boiling in microchannels.
For that I have extended OpenLB with a thermal multiphase flow coupling using the pseudopotential method.
I have gathered the extension source code and made a few examples, which I made available here:
https://github.com/JuliusWeinmiller/ThermalMultiphaseOpenLB
A quick implementation guide is given there as well.
The examples include:
– Phase separation (3D)
– Thermodynamic consistency (2D/3D)
– Young-Laplace law (2D/3D)
– Wall wettability (2D/3D)
– D2-Law for droplet evaporation (2D/3D)
– Realistic evaporating droplet (2D)
– Pool boiling (2D)
The phase separation and thermodynamic consistency simulations showcases the new forcing method that I have implemented.
The D2-Law shows the evaporation of a droplet given the normal DDF and the latent heat implementation.
The realistic evaporating droplet uses a semi-hybrid thermal implementation, which allows setting different thermal diffusivity for each phase.
The pool boiling is combining all the segments that I have created into one showcase.
I saw that the recent v1.4 release changes the source code in some aspects making my extension not yet compatible with that new version.
If there is enough interest, I can later release another version compatible with v1.4, or also help in implementing it as part of future OpenLB releases.
Currently, I am Msc student at TU Delft, The Netherlands, but am about to graduate.
From 2021 onwards, I am a PhD student at DLR / Helmholtz Institute Ulm.
Kind Regards,
Julius Weinmiller