Fixed-Grid Modeling of Solid-Liquid Phase Change in Unstructured Meshes Using Explicit Time Schemes

Abstract

Fixed-grid enthalpy models have been used extensively for solid-liquid phase-change computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations with implicit time schemes. In this work, this technique is implemented for explicit time schemes and collocated unstructured domain discretization, due to the interest in coupling phase-change formulations with turbulence models for liquid motion. Issues regarding the form of the energy equation, the treatment of the pressure equation, as well as the momentum source term coefficient introduced by the enthalpy-porosity method are described in detail. Numerical implementation is tested with different study cases, showing good agreement with other experimental and numerical results.