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A robust four-equation model for compressible multi-phase multi-component flows satisfying interface equilibrium and phase-immiscibility conditions
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5784-6133
School of Engineering and Design, Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, Garching bei München, 85748, Germany.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5299-3102
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics. (FLOW)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4293-2431
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7497-9328
2026 (English)In: Journal of Computational Physics, ISSN 0021-9991, E-ISSN 1090-2716, Vol. 558, article id 114827Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this work, a robust computational method with the four-equation model is proposed to simulate compressible multi-phase multi-component flows. An ENO-type numerical scheme is designed to be consistent with the thermodynamic equilibrium assumptions of the four-equation multi-phase model, discretely enforcing the interface equilibrium condition — preventing numerical oscillations in pressure, velocity, and temperature around isothermal material interfaces. Critically, the proposed numerical method for the four-equation model accomplishes this without requiring explicit equations for volume fraction or other redundant transport equations for variables including mixture equation of state parameters, as is commonly done for the five-equation model. Additionally, consistent mixing rules are used to derive a non-dilute species diffusion model and thereby extend the conservative diffuse interface (CDI) model to multi-component systems. Together, these models prevent unphysical numerical leakage of species across phase interfaces. The presented test cases show that this consistent numerical method is equally applicable for regimes ranging from single-phase to multi-phase multi-component flows without retuning numerical parameters. When augmented with an existing positivity-preserving limiter for handling compressible multiphase flows, we show that the proposed computational method can robustly handle extreme conditions including strong shock-interface interactions, within the four-equation modeling framework. The proposed models and numerical schemes are implemented in the highly parallel Hypersonic Task based Research (HTR) Solver, and high-resolution simulations are performed using both CPUs and GPUs.

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Elsevier BV , 2026. Vol. 558, article id 114827
Keywords [en]
Compressible, Diffuse interface, ENO-type, Four-equation model, Multicomponent, Multiphase
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Computational Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-379788DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2026.114827ISI: 001730799900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105035018673OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-379788DiVA, id: diva2:2054615
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Available from: 2026-04-21 Created: 2026-04-21 Last updated: 2026-04-21Bibliographically approved

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