Calculate interfacial area
 

Hi all,

I'm currently simulating gas-liquid two phase flow using VOF method. I came across a method to calculate the interfacial area recently, and I'm very interesting in it. According this method, the local interfacial area in an interfacial cell is calculated from the cell fluid fraction gradient,

Ai = |grad f|i * Vi

where, Ai is the interfacial area of cell i,
|grad f|i is the fluid fraction gradient of cell i,
Vi is the volume of cell i.

Could anybody tell me how to access the value of |grad f| in Fluent.

Thanks a lot:)

What type of flow regime you working with?

Hi, kbaker

I'm working with a T-shaped mixing zone, the computational domain is 3D. The two inlets are for gas and liquid respectively. I need to calculate the interfacial area of the main channel. Can you help with that?

thanks

Do you have any paper about what are you trying to do? if you have send it to my email khalidb77@gmail.com its better to understand your problem well?

use
C_VOF(c,t) in udf to acess that parameter that parameter that you want to know

shk

thanks shk
C_VOF(c,t) returns the volume fraction for cell c, however how can I calculate the gradient of C_VOF(c,t)?

Hello,
Haven't you solved the problem? If you haven't, you can try the "C_VOF_G". Additionally, could you explain the meaning of equation"Ai = |grad f|i * Vi "?

Thank you pointh,
I'll try your method. And I can't figure out this equation neither. sorry.

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what Reference values should I used in fluent to find the area as defaults values are 1 for area,depth and length.
Area=?
Depth=?

I want to calculate the interfacial area in Fluent between two fluids, I am using the VOF model and I am mixing the two fluids in static mixer and I need a way to calculate the interfacial area. Could anyone help me!