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Fokker-Planck-Poisson kinetics: Multi-phase flow beyond equilibrium

Sadr, Mohsen
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Pfeiffer, Marcel
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Gorji, Hossein  
2021
Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Multi-phase phenomena remain at the heart of many challenging fluid dynamics problems. Molecular fluxes at the interface determine the fate of neighboring phases, yet their closure far from the continuum needs to be modeled. Along the hierarchy of kinetic approaches, a multi-phase particle method is devised in this study. Molecular interactions are expressed via stochastic forces driven by the white noise, coupled to the long-range attractions. The former is local and pursues diffusive approximation of molecular collisions, whereas the latter takes a global feature owing to mean-field forces. The obtained Fokker-Planck-Poisson combination provides an efficient work-flow for physics-driven simulations suitable for multi-phase phenomena far from the equilibrium. Besides highlighting the computational efficiency of the method, various archetypical and complex problems ranging from inverted-temperature-gradient between droplets to spinodal decomposition are explored. Detailed discussions are provided on different characteristics of the droplets dispersed in low/high density background gases; including the departure of heat-fluxes from Fourier's law as well as droplets growth in spinodal phases.

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