Rettenmaier, Daniel (2019)
Numerical Simulation of Shear Driven Wetting.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
In this thesis, a simulation framework is built that is able to accurately predict forced wetting on complex geometry in turbulent shear flow. To optimize functionalities and to increase the safety of industrial applications such as in printing, coating or the exterior water management of vehicles it is necessary to properly understand the motion of drops and rivulets in shear flow. For this purpose, the specific interplay of multi-phase flows, three-phase contact line dynamics, and turbulent flow fields on a multitude of length and time scales are to be modeled and discretized in such a way that complex geometries are representable. The sensitivity of the drop and rivulet motion on small length scales is the main motivation of this study since a detailed description of wetting phenomena on large-scale applications is necessary but not affordable. To develop the required simplifying models, all necessary models for a detailed description of the complex physical interplay are implemented and validated in the present study.
The numerical framework is based on the Volume of Fluid method within OpenFOAM to describe the multi-phase flow. To simulate wetting, a variety of models regarding the surface tension and the contact line dynamics, including the contact angle hysteresis, have been implemented and validated successfully. One of two elaborate turbulence models has been chosen because of its compatibility with the multi-phase flow description. This hybrid turbulence model is based on a Reynolds Average Navier Stokes method and a Large Eddy Simulation method, which provides a flexible compromise between accuracy and computational resources. Furthermore, to cope with the multitude of length scales, the high-performance techniques Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Dynamic Load Balancing have been significantly enhanced within this work to ensure a stable and efficient as well as highly parallelizable computation. All incorporated models have been implemented based on an unstructured mesh, which allows for the representation of complex geometries.
In particular, the key scenarios of wetting found in the exterior water management of vehicles have been simulated and compared with well-defined experiments. Simulations of drop impact, as well as drop and rivulet motion on inclined plates, match with a variety of experimental setups in literature. Critical characteristics, such as the incipient motion of drops, the cornering of the drop tails and the meandering of rivulets also match experimental findings very well. Moreover, in shear flow, the simulation of the incipient motion of drops is in accordance with experiments and a developed theoretical model. Finally, the interaction of a moving drop in turbulent shear flow with a microchannel further confirms the predictive capabilities of the numerical framework even for complex geometries.
Typ des Eintrags: | Dissertation | ||||
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Erschienen: | 2019 | ||||
Autor(en): | Rettenmaier, Daniel | ||||
Art des Eintrags: | Erstveröffentlichung | ||||
Titel: | Numerical Simulation of Shear Driven Wetting | ||||
Sprache: | Englisch | ||||
Referenten: | Tropea, Prof. Dr. Cameron ; Bothe, Prof. Dr. Dieter | ||||
Publikationsjahr: | 16 Januar 2019 | ||||
Ort: | Darmstadt | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: | 16 Januar 2019 | ||||
URL / URN: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/8510 | ||||
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | In this thesis, a simulation framework is built that is able to accurately predict forced wetting on complex geometry in turbulent shear flow. To optimize functionalities and to increase the safety of industrial applications such as in printing, coating or the exterior water management of vehicles it is necessary to properly understand the motion of drops and rivulets in shear flow. For this purpose, the specific interplay of multi-phase flows, three-phase contact line dynamics, and turbulent flow fields on a multitude of length and time scales are to be modeled and discretized in such a way that complex geometries are representable. The sensitivity of the drop and rivulet motion on small length scales is the main motivation of this study since a detailed description of wetting phenomena on large-scale applications is necessary but not affordable. To develop the required simplifying models, all necessary models for a detailed description of the complex physical interplay are implemented and validated in the present study. The numerical framework is based on the Volume of Fluid method within OpenFOAM to describe the multi-phase flow. To simulate wetting, a variety of models regarding the surface tension and the contact line dynamics, including the contact angle hysteresis, have been implemented and validated successfully. One of two elaborate turbulence models has been chosen because of its compatibility with the multi-phase flow description. This hybrid turbulence model is based on a Reynolds Average Navier Stokes method and a Large Eddy Simulation method, which provides a flexible compromise between accuracy and computational resources. Furthermore, to cope with the multitude of length scales, the high-performance techniques Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Dynamic Load Balancing have been significantly enhanced within this work to ensure a stable and efficient as well as highly parallelizable computation. All incorporated models have been implemented based on an unstructured mesh, which allows for the representation of complex geometries. In particular, the key scenarios of wetting found in the exterior water management of vehicles have been simulated and compared with well-defined experiments. Simulations of drop impact, as well as drop and rivulet motion on inclined plates, match with a variety of experimental setups in literature. Critical characteristics, such as the incipient motion of drops, the cornering of the drop tails and the meandering of rivulets also match experimental findings very well. Moreover, in shear flow, the simulation of the incipient motion of drops is in accordance with experiments and a developed theoretical model. Finally, the interaction of a moving drop in turbulent shear flow with a microchannel further confirms the predictive capabilities of the numerical framework even for complex geometries. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-85100 | ||||
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft > 004 Informatik 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 500 Naturwissenschaften 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 510 Mathematik 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik |
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Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau 16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau > Fachgebiet Strömungslehre und Aerodynamik (SLA) 16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau > Fachgebiet Strömungslehre und Aerodynamik (SLA) > Modellierung und Simulation turbulenter Strömungen 16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau > Fachgebiet Strömungslehre und Aerodynamik (SLA) > Strömungskontrolle und instationäre Aerodynamik Exzellenzinitiative Exzellenzinitiative > Graduiertenschulen Exzellenzinitiative > Graduiertenschulen > Graduate School of Computational Engineering (CE) 16 Fachbereich Maschinenbau > Fachgebiet Strömungslehre und Aerodynamik (SLA) > Tropfendynamik und Sprays |
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Hinterlegungsdatum: | 25 Aug 2019 19:55 | ||||
Letzte Änderung: | 25 Aug 2019 19:55 | ||||
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Referenten: | Tropea, Prof. Dr. Cameron ; Bothe, Prof. Dr. Dieter | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung / Verteidigung / mdl. Prüfung: | 16 Januar 2019 | ||||
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